Neither Cruz, the Tea Party senator from Texas, nor Kasich, the more moderate OH governor, have given any indication they’re prepared to throw in the towel.
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It’s now blindingly obvious that nobody is going to beat Trump in the sense of winning more delegates than he does heading into the nominating convention in July, regardless of whether or not anybody gets the 1,237 bound delegates necessary to guarantee a first ballot win.
Trump’s victory was a psychological boost for his campaign, though the impact on his path to the GOP nomination was to be determined by the number of delegates he secured.
“Whether they refer to him as the presumptive nominee or not, we should be talking about him as if he is our nominee because he is going to be our nominee”. Clinton, the former secretary of state, won with the support of voters looking for a continuation of President Barack Obama’s policies.
The Vermont senator traveled to Pennsylvania for a rally at a college on Tuesday, but in the evening he flew home to Burlington, Vt. – without his press entourage – to get “recharged and take a day off”. He said it was clear “that we are headed to a contested convention”.
“We’re doing well there”, Stewart said.
The fight for New York’s delegate haul consumed the presidential contenders for two weeks, an eternity in the fast-moving White House race. In New York City, a slew of snafus and irregularities triggered a probe from the local Board of Elections, which is notorious for its incompetence. Next Tuesday features primaries in Maryland, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, where polls show him far behind Trump.
Mr Sanders landed in Burlington Tuesday night and spoke to reporters just after the race was called. “I’m sure Ted Cruz won’t be following his own advice”.
She says there’s no way Cruz will win as the Republicans don’t like him anymore than they like Trump.
Alesha Johnson, 24, of New Cumberland, said she likes Mr. Cruz because she respects his Christian and family values.
Coming off commanding victories in New York Tuesday, Trump and Clinton are now turning their attention to CT and the four other Eastern states that hold their primaries on April 26.
The question is whether it will be remade in the image of Donald Trump – a man who is arguably not even a real Republican – or in a more traditional, albeit smaller, form, shorn of an angry fringe that Trump has mobilized with appeals to anger, bigotry, and xenophobia. He’s acknowledged that bringing new people into his orbit may cause some strife, but says the moves were necessary at this stage of the race.
This would reduce the chances of a contested nomination at the Republican party convention in July. More than half of his supporters said they wouldn’t vote for Cruz in the general election, and over two-thirds said the same of Trump.
Trump’s political strength, though he boasts of drawing new members to the party, has left some Republicans concerned that his nomination could splinter the GOP.
If Clinton does as well as expected in next week’s primaries, she’s on track to clinch the nomination with help from superdelegates, the party insiders who can back either candidate, on June 7. “And he really outperformed most of the polls, getting over 60 percent, so he’s going to leave NY with a lot of momentum and a big delegate count”. Westmoreland said if Trump gets within striking distance of the 1,237 mark, he could feasibly try to negotiate with the party’s unbound delegates to push him over the top.
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Clinton now has 1,428 delegates from the primary elections and another 502 super delegates, who are mainly party officials, have pledged their support to her. But they can change their vote even at the last moment. To this point, she’s won 59 percent of the delegates on offer, according to Politico.
