Cruz and Kasich, who is Ohio’s governor, hope their efforts will weaken Trump in Oregon, Indiana and New Mexico and keep him from securing the delegates he needs to claim the nomination before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. “I think that made sense for both campaigns”. Trump faces a tough path to earn the 1,237 delegates needed to lock up the nomination before the convention. Cruz will focus on Indiana’s May 3 primary without competition from Kasich, while Cruz will stand aside in favor of Kasich in Oregon’s May 17 primary and New Mexico’s June 7 vote. Before about 800 people a community college in Youngwood, Clinton said she learned how to shoot at her grandfather’s lake cottage near Scranton. If you collude in business or if you collude in the stock market they put you in jail. “They ought to vote for me”, Kasich said just 13 hours after promising to give Cruz “a clear path” in Indiana.
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On Tuesday, voters in five states will head to the polls. The Ted Cruz team anticipated this and warned Cruz supporters that this would be a dry patch, adding that things will get better.
Cruz and Kasich each need the convention to go to a second or third ballot, when most delegates would not be bound to a particular candidate – namely Trump.
Trump now leads the race with 846 pledged delegates.
“That’s kind of sneaky”, said Joe Conder, a 75-year-old retired civil engineer from Scottsville, who is deciding between Cruz and Trump. Should Trump win IN, which is effectively a winner-take-all race, it would be tough for Cruz and Kasich to stop him collecting the delegate haul needed to win a first convention vote IN Cleveland IN July.
GOV. JOHN KASICH (R-OH), Republican Presidential Candidate: What’s the big deal?
OR wasn’t always on John Kasich’s radar. Ted Cruz and John kasich. Cruz, the senator from Texas, has 559, and Kasich, who’s won only his home state of OH, has 145.
“They colluded and actually I was happy because it shows how weak they are”, Trump said at a campaign rally in Warwick, Rhode Island.
But while Cruz supporters were energized by the deal, for Kasich’s backers “it’s like someone let the air of their balloon”, said Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, a center-right talk show host in Indianapolis and editor 0f IndyPolitics.org. Shabazz said he was probably a Kasich supporter, and isn’t sure what he’ll do now. An Indiana delegate supporting Kasich was ambivalent about backing Cruz.
The Ohio governor is planning at least two campaign stops in OR in advance of next month’s primary.
On Monday, Trump lashed out at what he called collusion by desperate rivals, intensifying his attacks on the GOP presidential nomination system on the eve of Tuesday’s round of primary elections in the Northeast. Kasich said. “I’m not over there campaigning and spending resources”.
Dunn, who will be meeting with Kasich Tuesday, April 26, in Indianapolis, said that while he understands the decision, he is disappointed the candidates won’t be fighting for votes in IN the same way they have elsewhere.
“Hoosier voters”, said Brian Howey, publisher of the nonpartisan Howey Politics Indiana newsletter, “don’t really like people telling them who to vote for”.
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During a testy news conference on Monday, Kasich told reporters that voters in IN should still vote for him, even though the terms of the Kasich-Cruz deal stipulate that the Hoosier State would be ceded to Cruz.
