“She’s got nothing else going”, Trump told media after his sweeping victories in five states where presidential primaries were held.
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Twenty-three said they will support the Republican front-runner, while 16 additional delegates – who said they would vote for the victor of their congressional district on the first ballot – will also back Trump. In January, he said she is “constantly playing the woman card” as the “only way for her to elected”. Seven others ran as uncommitted. “(Ted) Cruz have really, really hurt themselves with a faulty deal that was defaulted on before it was even started”. And after winning last night’s primaries, Trump said, “If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote”. Several cash-rich campaign groups have announced that they would intensify their anti-Trump campaign ahead of the IN primaries on May 3, which has now become the last barrier that stands between Mr. Trump and the nomination.
The Northeastern results are the latest example of a phenomenon seen throughout this Republican race: Voters in one state are not much moved by the choices of voters in an earlier contest.
On the Democratic side, frontrunner Hillary Clinton won four of the five, roughly on expected lines, and ceding only Rhode Island to challenger Bernie Sanders.
As he has in the 46 states and territories that have voted so far, Trump turned in his strongest showing in Northeast counties that are still feeling the lingering effects of the massive job losses of the Great Recession. He was referring to Clinton’s defense of “playing the “woman’s card” during her victory address in Pennsylvania. “That’s all she’s got…it’s a weak card in her hands”, Trump said on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning.
“We’d just keep voting, but nothing would ever get decided”, he said. The exit polls were conducted in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Clinton ceded only Rhode Island to Vermont Sen. “We’re not going to change our mind”. Their only hope is to block Trump and force a contested convention in which no one has a majority of the delegates.
But that effort did little to stop Mr Trump from a big showing, picking up at least 105 of the 118 delegates up for grabs.
Cornyn isn’t alone. House and Senate Republicans are reluctantly coming to terms with the reality that the real estate mogul – a man many feared given his unpredictability, questionable policy positions and lack of discipline on the campaign trail – will likely be their party’s standard bearer.
Cruz spent Tuesday in IN, where Kasich’s campaign has withdrawn in an attempt to give the Texas senator a clear path.
Page said it’s time to realize that we’re heading toward a general election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and we should not make too many assumptions about how it’s going to turn out.
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She also said she expects Sanders to work with her on planning the Democratic National Convention and the platform the party will adopt at it, and was quick to praise him and his supporters. According to the AP count, Clinton has 2,089 delegates while Sanders has 1,258.
