Trump’s win in his home state of NY on Tuesday bolstered his chances for the nomination, and he said on Thursday that his rivals, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich, have no shot at it. Trump is seeking to cast himself as the party’s leader.
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Trump captured more than 50 percent of the vote in NY on Tuesday and was headed toward a big delegate haul in his home state, a commanding showing that keeps him on a path to the Republican nomination if he continues to win.
Despite getting shut out of the delegate race in New York, Cruz is aggressively courting delegates across the nation who could hold great sway at the convention. So far, Sanders is not giving any signs that he is about to end his presidential quest.
Republican National Committee members gathered in Florida this week as the focus on the party’s nominating convention intensifies.
Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican operative brought in to bolster the billionaire’s campaign, told those at a private meeting that Trump realizes he will need to change his image if he becomes his party’s nominee.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump emerged as clear front-runners following Tuesday’s primary in NY.
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Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich is campaigning in Rhode Island ahead of the state’s April 26 primary.
Even as his team pressed Trump’s case, he raised fresh concern among some conservatives by speaking against North Carolina’s “bathroom law”, which directs transgender people to use the bathroom that matches the sex on their birth certificates.
“I don’t think any Democrat’s ever won saying, ‘We can’t think that big – we ought to really downsize here because it’s not realistic, ‘” Biden said. “Remember, make America great again!”
Sixty-year-old Scott Sheffield of Indianapolis says he thinks Trump will win Indiana’s May 3 primary and expose how the GOP establishment is trying to grab the nomination from him. And I’m not going to respond to what he says about me.
Voters in Pennsylvania will directly elect those 54 delegates to the national convention Tuesday, but unlike most states, they will have no idea which candidate a delegate will support since the voter will only see a list of delegate names to choose from on their ballot.
LePage was selected as a delegate Saturday during caucuses at the state GOP convention, assuring that he’ll be going to Cleveland in July. “It’s the state that knows him the best”, he declared. “No one else can get it outright”.
The ad reiterated Cruz’s assertion that media outlets are holding onto bombshell revelations about Trump that could further alienate voters in a potential general-election matchup with Clinton.
“I just don’t know if I want to do it yet”, Trump said during a raucous rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday that was frequently interrupted by protesters.
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With the loss, Cruz now must decide if he will heed his own advice and leave the race in order to unite the Republican party behind Trump in a bid to take out Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the General Election, or if he will remain in the race in an attempt to earn enough delegates to ensure a brokered convention.
