In a statement, Cruz said he was “truly honored to earn” Bush’s support.
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Mr. Trump has 61 percent unfavorability, compared with 47 unfavorability for Mr. Cruz and 20 percent unfavorability for Mr. Kasich. In sum, Bernie Sanders had the better night, edging Clinton in the delegate count 68-59.
He noted that it was mathematically impossible for Mr. Kasich to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination.
Cruz gets some bragging rights in the Beehive State.
The poll found Clinton would beat Trump by 10 percentage points, 48 to 38 percent, though the race between them would be closer in swing states.
With the next election contest nearly two weeks away, expect a floodgate of pro-Cruz (or at least anti-Trump) endorsements to come in while campaigning begins in Wisconsin.
The chart above shows our graphical conception of the Republican field – what we call the GOP’s “five-ring circus” – and how far across that field former presidential candidates have gone when choosing who to endorse. Among supporters for Kasich, half would be willing to vote for Trump while 19 percent would support Clinton and almost a quarter would not vote at all. The Texas senator has won endorsements from Jeb Bush. If no one gets that amount before the GOP convention in July, the nominee for the party would be decided through a contested convention.
Cruz only bests the Donald in one, those voters who lean Republican who identify as ‘very conservative’.
In the first two primaries since Mr. Kasich’s victory in OH on March 15, Utah Republicans awarded all 40 delegates to Mr. Cruz, who won 69 percent of the vote.
He argued that Ohio Gov. John Kasich would not be eligible to be the nominee under convention rules unless he wins a majority of delegates in eight states, leaving the nomination to a vote between himself and Trump at the convention.
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“I suspect that between him being the Conservative and him being the alternative to Donald Trump, that he has a chance of doing well”, Lee said. However, 46 percent of voters polled are still undecided. Finally, a new state budget backed by Republicans will go into effect on Sunday, even though Governor Tom Wolf didn’t sign it, but he didn’t veto it either.
