Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz raises hands with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, left, and his wife Heidi, right, during a primary night campaign event. If Trump is close to the magic number, for example, he might be able to scrounge up commitments from delegates in the five states and territories that didn’t have statewide presidential preference votes during the primary season. “Cruz continues to go down this path and then neither Trump or Cruz becomes the nominee”, continued Pierson. So far, it’s 46 percent. He is winning the guerrilla war to elect delegates pledged to Trump but loyal to Cruz for all procedural fights and for any votes after the first ballot at the convention.
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Trump’s campaign issued a statement after the results of the Wisconsin primary, and accused Cruz of illegally coordinating with the Super PAC supporting him.
In response, Cruz’ communications director Jason Miller said late Tuesday that “Donald Trump has a real problem when he gets his tail kicked, and that’s exactly what happened tonight”.
About 40 minutes later, the reference to Sanders’ victory was removed altogether, and now contains no mention of the Democratic contest.
Hope Hicks, the spokesperson for Trump’s campaign, said, “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”.
Clinton told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Sanders’ recent remark that gun dealers shouldn’t necessarily be subject to lawsuits was “unimaginable” because it put the rights of the gun industry above parents whose children have been killed by guns. There are 882 remaining delegates at stake in the Republican Party. In fact, almost 70 percent of Hillary’s lead over Sanders in the delegate race comes from superdelegates. Cruz’s victory injected fresh energy into what had been a flagging anti- Trump movement and showed that Trump has work to do to fix damage he brought to his campaign with remarks about abortion that hurt him with Republican women voters.
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For his part, Cruz mostly kept focused on the enemies he’s spent an entire career attacking – Democrats. Bernie Sanders’ 13-point victory over Hillary Clinton means he has won seven of the last eight contests over the former Secretary of State.
If Trump were to arrive in Cleveland with something just shy of the 1,237 majority, he would still have a powerful argument to party leaders that he deserves the nomination anyway, despite lacking the majority.
Several of the candidates have deep ties to NY voters.
Take Massachusetts, where Trump captured 22 of the 42 delegates.
To secure the nomination, Trump needs to win 499 delegates to make it to 1,237. A majority, 55 percent, said “the candidate with the most votes in the primaries”.
Overall, Trump will have to capture at least 64 percent of the remaining delegates available to clinch the nomination before the convention.
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