Several members of the Louisiana delegation have since come forward, saying they intend to remain neutral or committed to Trump.
Advertisement
In western Pennsylvania, from Erie to Pittsburgh, the poll finds Trump at 43 percent, Cruz at 29 percent, and Kasich at 25 percent, a statistically insignificant variation from his statewide total. So before Ted Cruz went on the late night talk show Thursday, he got a call from Trump with some advice…well, from host Jimmy Fallon playing Trump anyway.
Brendan Quinn, the former executive director of the New York GOP, said losing out on even a few delegates in New York could have an impact on Trump’s bid for 1,237 delegates nationwide – the mark to avoid a contested GOP convention in July. “And I was like, wow … because he never does that”. “We are calling all around the state”, he said.
But that’s where the billionaire appears to have missed his chance: Party officials say they saw virtually no organization by the mogul’s campaign last week when Republicans in all 93 Nebraska counties held local conventions. Cruz has pitched de Blasio as all that is wrong with what Cruz calls “New York values”, a jab he first used against Trump.
In the southeast corner of the state in the critical Philadelphia suburbs, Trump is at 40 percent, to 31 percent for Cruz, and Kasich at 23 percent. Ted Cruz in third place at 16 percent. He said the candidate who gets the most votes should be the party’s presidential nominee, no matter how many delegates they’ve earned.
Calling him “a potential superstar of vast promise”, the New York Post has endorsed Donald Trump ahead of next week’s New York Republican primary.
The Republican candidate further complained about Cruz’s “shenanigans” in Louisiana, another state where the senator crushed the Trump campaign.
Advertisement
In comparison, a mid-March New York Times poll found that 90 percent of Democratic primary voters who support Bernie Sanders and 89 percent of such voters who support Hillary Clinton would still support the other candidate in a general election. “So I thought, oh, I really picked a good one”, Knochel said.
