29% of Republican primary voters say they will vote for the other party’s candidate, vote for a 3rd party candidate or not vote at all.
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Trump is the pick of 39% likely Republican voters, while Cruz has the support of 32%, according to a poll from the Field Research Corporation in California. He also said while he’s been in touch regularly with the Cruz and Kasich campaigns, he hasn’t heard anything from Trump.
Analysts agree that Cruz and Kasich, both of whom are speaking at the California Republican Party convention at the end of April, are more organized in the state than Trump, who is self-funding and relies on media coverage.
Republican New York Chairman Ed Cox said he believed the state could decide the nomination. “I think that really was the telling aspect of this”.
In his new role, Manafort will oversee all the functions related to “the nomination process”, from courting delegates and assisting in getting them elected at state conventions, to the nuts-and-bolts of preparing for a floor fight at the national convention in Cleveland in July.
No Republican presidential candidate has won Pennsylvania since President George H.W. Bush carried the state in 1988.
“I know he was attacking liberal Democratic values …” “Our companies are being uprooted, they’re moving to Mexico, they’re moving to other countries…and you know what?”
Usually at no loss for words, the real estate mogul left it to his campaign to blame his poor showing in Wisconsin on an anti-Trump movement that it said spent “countless millions on false advertising” to stop him.
Trump’s statement indicated that Lewandowski would continue to play a key role atop the organization.
Cruz himself was in NY on Wednesday, spending time in the Bronx as he pivots his campaign to the Empire State, which votes in less than two weeks.
Sanders would still face a hard task overtaking Clinton as the nominating contest, but Cruz’s double-digit win over Trump was seen as a breakthrough for Republican Party forces battling to block him.
“It looks increasingly unlikely that Trump will earn the 1,237 delegates needed to win on the first ballot, and after the first ballot most delegates – including those from Arizona – will be free to vote for the candidate of their choice”, Stone said.
Trump has a 10-point lead over Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 41% to 31%, and Texas Sen.
That means Mr Sanders must still win an unlikely 67% of the remaining delegates and uncommitted super-delegates in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
“Everybody involved in the campaigns have invested countless time, sweat, tears, money and hopes”. He’s still not winning over fellow Republican senators.
“To fall just a couple delegates short and just take your marbles and go home, it doesn’t work like that”.
“It is interesting that Kasich would be a stronger nominee in Trump’s home state, but it is purely academic”, said Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth’s polling institute.
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Lawrence Dinwiddie, a 53-year-old Republican from Modesto, said that if the election were tomorrow, he probably would vote for Trump.
