While Republican Ted Cruz tried to pick up more delegates in Colorado on Saturday, front-runner Donald Trump stayed in his home state to focus on New York’s all important April 19 primary.
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Also as part of the expectations game, Cruz and aides are downplaying their own prospects in NY.
A spokesman for the state’s Republican Party told The Columbian in an earlier interview the state GOP has invited Trump, Cruz and Kasich to visit the state, but has yet to hear back.
Western New York supporters of Republican presidential candidate John Kasich met Wednesday night to begin organizing a grassroots campaign effort.
In addition, his alternate slate also has two candidates numbered incorrectly. The statewide victor will receive 17 of the state’s 71 delegates, while the 54 delegates elected among the 18 congressional districts can support any candidate they choose at the convention. Those county chairs will pressure Cox to give his at-large votes to Trump at the state convention next month – and could threaten to remove Cox as state party boss if he doesn’t comply, according to one Trump source said. It takes 1,237 to clinch the nomination, though there’s a real chance no candidate will reach that mark by the national convention in Cleveland in July. Bader told CNN they shared the same concerns about Trump, although they didn’t coordinate with each other. Exit polling suggested a lot of Cruz supporters were voting against Trump as much or more than they were supporting the doctrinaire senator who led the fight to shut down the federal government in 2013 over Obamacare.
Trump and Cruz are both taking the day off today.
Donald Trump, under pressure to show a more presidential image, elevated a top adviser on Thursday and said he planned to hire additional staff to prepare for the possibility of a long fight for the Republican nomination.
Trump had a rough time campaigning in the days leading up to the Badger State primary.
One of Trump’s volunteers, Tony Polisi, said he didn’t expect Trump to win any delegates on Saturday. Unbound delegates can vote for whomever they chose at the National Convention. The welcome from the gathered crowd had to soothe some of the burn from his big loss in Wisconsin where Ted Cruz took the most delegates. “Trump’s a doer. We’re going to get things done”.
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Fifteen percent of Republicans surveyed for a new Field Poll, and likely to vote in California’s June 7 primary, are Latino. And with a huge gap between the organisational incompetence of the Trump campaign and the solid Ted Cruz effort, Cruz is dominating.
