The most recent public poll of NY voters, from Monmouth University, has Trump at 52 percent, Kasich at 25 percent and Cruz at 17 percent. Statewide, Trump collected 35 percent of the record 1 million GOP votes cast, compared with 32 percent for Florida Sen.
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“I don’t know Trump, I know Ted and I’ve met Kasich a few times”, he said.
Almost half said they were looking for a president with experience in politics.
No problem, with his home state of NY and its 95 delegates up next, right?
Stinging from a loss to rival Ted Cruz in the Wisconsin Republican primary, Donald Trump held a rally in NY on Wednesday, telling his supporters that Cruz has shown “hatred for New York”, as Trump seeks to shore up support in his home state.
“The people that I was talking about are the liberal New York Democrats”, Cruz told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
Cruz, appearing on the CNN programme earlier, said he had a clear path to 1,237 delegates.
While GOP voters view both Trump and Cruz positively, both are seen highly unfavorably among the state’s overall electorate, according to the poll. They will no more pick him than they would pick me!
A Trump campaign statement said that he will add to his team as the Republican National Convention nears and that he would announce new hires in the weeks ahead.
“Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet – he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr Trump”, the campaign wrote. If Cruz comes away with a good number of delegates, he’ll have done exactly what he needs to do.
Not since a wounded Gerald Ford saw off a challenge from Ronald Reagan in 1976 has the Republican Party witnessed a contested convention.
Cruz has prevented Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from winning a single delegate in Colorado.
Even if he hits the winner-take-all targets in the primaries he is expected to win ― in NY (which votes on April 19) and in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island (April 26) ― he could at best beat projections by about 40 delegates.
The gains coincided with a bumpy patch for Trump, who was forced to backtrack last week after saying women who had abortions should face punishment if the procedure is outlawed, and who voiced support for his campaign manager after he was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly grabbing a reporter.
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There wasn’t a regional breakdown in the Field Poll for the Democratic presidential nomination.
