Donald Trump says an extraordinary collaboration between Ted Cruz and John Kasich aimed at unifying the anti-Trump vote in some remaining primaries is a desperate move by “mathematically dead” rivals.
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A new poll suggests that a race for president between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could yield the lowest support for a Republican candidate among young voters in decades.
A new poll bolsters predictions that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are poised for big wins Tuesday in Pennsylvania.
“I don’t think I’m going to lose, but if I do, I don’t think you’re ever going to see me again”, Trump said, stating, “I think I’ll go to Turnberry and play golf or something”.
Trump grabbed the backing of 57% of people who said they strongly support a candidate, leading among 52% of men and 52% of those who do not hold a college degree. Republicans will also head to Nebraska on 10 May.
Clinton concluded by saying she has “spent more than a year talking and listening to people and I can tell you, there is a lot of concern, people are having a hard time”.
The New York real estate mogul needs to win his neighboring state.
The rhetoric has drawn protesters to Trump rallies, sometimes culminating in scuffles. Still, the Vermont senator vowed to keep competing.
Bernie Sanders is still behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and in a recent interview, he attributed his primary losses to the failure of poor people to cast their votes. The 74-year-old U.S. senator from Vermont has no plans to drop out of the race, according to his staff, who are counting on defying pollsters with some surprise wins on Tuesday.
On the GOP side, Trump is in the lead with a 845 delegates; 1,237 are needed for the nomination. In return, the Cruz campaign will “clear the path” for Kasich in OR and New Mexico.
That means Trump will have to defy the odds with particularly strong showings through the remainder of the statewide contests if he is to win the nomination outright before the party’s delegates gather in Cleveland in July to pick their nominee.
Trump already has at least 844 delegates committed to him, according to the Associated Press. Kasich’s campaign announced it would “give the Cruz campaign a clear path in IN”.
Almost 189,000 Democrats have already voted during the state’s early-voting period, according to Maryland voting records.
Ted Cruz is the only presidential hopeful not setting sights on Pennsylvanian voters Monday.
In Pennsylvania, Trump leads Cruz 51 to 25 percent, with Kasich at 22 percent.
Campaign manager Jeff Roe says on Twitter that Cruz’s team is going through the “normal processes” for picking a running mate. “He’s trying to say voting doesn’t matter”, Manafort said of Cruz on Sunday.
“We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country”, she said.
State nominating contests continue through June.
Both Cruz and Kasich’s campaigns released statements Sunday saying that Cruz will focus his campaign resources on winning enough delegates in IN, while Kasich will focus his efforts on western states including OR and New Mexico.
“Charles, in the past, has gone out of his way to make the case for him being a little bit less partisan than people would expect”, Priebus said on ABC.
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Reason’s Ed Krayewski speculates, “Perhaps poor people are not interested in policies like those Sanders espouses because most efforts to “reduce” income inequality destroy the prospects of upward income mobility for working Americans”.
