The ad says voters should choose Cruz because only he can still accumulate enough delegates to stop billionaire businessman Donald Trump from winning the nomination.
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The Republican presidential candidate is making his way to our next-door neighbors, at Wisconsin’s Janesville Conference Center on Tuesday, March 29 at 3 p.m, according to his website. The sixth hasn’t committed to any particular candidate.
There’s still a lot of time left in the 2016 presidential election.
And in California, he’d seal the deal by taking 109 of 172 delegates.
“Republicans are refusing to carry out their basic constitutional responsibilities and voters back home are putting them on the spot, calling them out for their unprecedented shutdown and demanding that they do their jobs”. Cruz embraced his role as the Republican candidate most poised to beat Trump.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz trails his two rivals with 20 percent support in the poll.
This primary will be to win the hearts and votes of several hundred delegates who have yet to pledge to any candidates.
John Kasich’s bounce is “certainly the biggest movement we saw in the poll”, noted Berwood Yost, director of Franklin & Marshall’s Center for Opinion Research.
GOP rules state that if a candidate wins 1,237 delegates during the primaries wins the party’s nomination.
“Republicans across the spectrum are realizing that to nominate Donald Trump brings chaos to our party and potentially to our country”, U.S. Representative Trent Franks of Arizona told Reuters, “and that any differences they might have had with Ted Cruz are far less important than the danger of nominating Mr Trump”.
All head-to-head polls between Trump and Clinton taken during at least part of March show Trump losing to Clinton between five and 18 points, and all outside the margin of error. But before the Ohio Guv’s supporters bust out the balloons, almost a third (32 percent) still have no opinion of him.
“It’s a Cuccinelli crowd that runs this state”, said Tom Davis, a former congressman who is the Virginia campaign chairman for Kasich.
Another poll from Epic-MRA shows that the Flint water crisis has seriously damaged Governor Rick Snyder’s job ratings. The Public Policy Institute of California survey found Hillary Clinton notched 48 percent among likely voters – Democrats and independents who can vote in the party’s primary election.
For context, at the last contested convention in 1976, President Gerald Ford won the nomination over then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan by a skin-of-the-teeth 60 votes.
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A recent Marquette University Law School Poll suggests only 25 percent of Republicans there view Trump favorably, versus 64 percent who don’t.
