A New Yorker who was very vocal for his dislike of Cruz is Republican Rep. Peter King, who said Tuesday that he will “take cyanide” if Cruz wins the nomination, reports The Huffington Post. Texas senator Ted Cruz’s campaign has been effective at recruiting delegates.
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But that’s a risky and unreliable strategy.
After the delegates are together, rule changes are fair game, he said. By state rules, 42 delegates are therefore “bound” to support him on the first round of voting at the national convention.
In Pennsylvania, which votes April 26, Trump is also up: 46 percent with Cruz (26 percent) and Kasich (23 percent) battling it out for second.
“All of this noise and complaining and whining has come from the Trump campaign because they don’t like the fact that they lost five elections in a row”, Cruz said, referring to contests over the past three weeks in Utah, North Dakota, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Each had a personal connection to the state, Trump having been born in NY and basing his business empire there, and Clinton having served as a USA senator from NY before she became secretary of state.
After Donald Trump began racking up big victories deep into the Republican primary election, there was a widespread call for his remaining challengers to clear the field and let one person consolidate the anti-Trump vote.
“This is a banana republic approach from the Trump team”, he said.
All of which might be moot if Trump has a strong run through some favorable upcoming primaries, including NY on Tuesday.
Pennsylvania will send a whopping number of delegates to July’s unsettled Republican National Convention who, under a state party rule, can vote for whichever candidate they choose.
“He is making sure that the rules are the rules, that we follow the rules”, said House Speaker Paul Ryan, who like Priebus is from Wisconsin.
Should Trump fall short, his rivals are seeking to woo delegates pledged to the billionaire businessman on the first ballot who then could support another candidate during subsequent votes. Trump, he said, has quite a few “ways to be persuasive” Romney said, and picking off 50 or 100 delegates shouldn’t be too hard.
“Lyin’ Ted Cruz can’t get votes (I am millions ahead of him) so he has to get his delegates from the Republican bosses”.
“I think there’s just a lot of questions out there about, ‘How does this thing work?'” Walden said, noting that he has been asked by people from his district about the convention.
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A member of the Republican National Committee trying to revamp GOP rules for nominating a presidential candidate says without the change, party leaders could exert “almost dictatorial power” at this July’s nominating convention.
