So I don’t think polling adequately captures the intensity of voter support, especially for candidates perceived to be the outsiders this year: Sanders and Trump. So yesterday, Donald Trump supporter Roger Stone felt no compunction about demanding, in a column published by Breitbart last night, that delegates won by Trump “sign a pledge that ‘they will remain committed to vote for the victor of the primary or caucus as chosen by the voters (Donald J. Trump )’ through the entire balloting process“.
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The push by Cruz means that it is more essential than ever for Trump to clinch the nomination by winning a majority of delegates to avoid a contested and drawn-out convention fight, which Trump seems nearly certain to lose.
I’m not being flip when I say he has no chance to win it, either.
“Doing these kind of things increases their intensity” and investment in the campaign for both supporters and those considering supporting the candidate, Osborne said.
Custom, Haughland said, may dictate that delegates should support the winners of their state primaries.
In recent days, Trump has taken particular aim at the way Cruz swept all of Colorado’s 34 delegates at state and congressional district GOP conventions.
Knowledgeable and motivated ground-level volunteers are essential in caucuses and state party conventions where delegates are selected. “He has built an empire from the ground up, and we are excited to hear his plan to make America great again, starting right here in California”, he said in a statement. He dropped out of the race but his campaign wasn’t proactive enough to get his name removed from the ballot in time, so his name will appear alongside those of Trump, Cruz and Kasich. “That is you earn the votes of a majority of the delegates elected by the people”.
Cruz said this week that he thinks the odds of a contested convention are “very high”.
Cruz’s map against Clinton sets up in a near-identical way to Trump’s, but the margins within several states are vastly different.
Another reason the establishment might be so resistant is that Cruz has outworked Kasich in hustling to snag delegates away from Trump.
On the delegate front, the Trump, Cruz and Kasich campaigns all pay specialists to advise them.
Donald Trump is no typical politician – and his wife Melania is not a typical political spouse.
Those delegates are only pledged to the victor on the first ballot of the national convention.
Each state has its own method of choosing delegates and deciding who they vote for.
Thirty-one percent of Americans have a favorable view of Trump while 67 percent are unfavorable – almost identical to an early March Post-ABC poll which found he would be the most disliked major-party nominee since at least 1984.
Matt Mackowiak, a Republican consultant in Texas, said the Cruz camp has been quiet about their delegate acquisition efforts, but it is apparent they “understand who these folks are and what they are about”.
“It is freaky”, said Cruz.
According to a Quinnipiac poll published on Tuesday, Trump leads among the Republicans with 55 percent among likely GOP voters, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 20 percent and Sen.
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Carl Paladino, a builder and former gubernatorial candidate who is another honorary co-chair, sent out an email Wednesday advertising the “WNY Trump Headquarters Opening!” in the Buffalo building where he works.
