Trump sounded confident in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” when asked whether in would basically end the long-running Republican race in his favor. But GOP leaders say just six of those selected are Trump supporters. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist opinion poll showed Trump with a wide lead in IN, 49 percent to 34 percent for Cruz and 13 percent for a third candidate, Ohio Governor John Kasich. Cruz had at least been kinda close in polls.
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Aerial shots of the protests, which were largely anti-Trump, showed police officers holding a line blocking protesters as they demonstrated near the event taking place at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Burlingame, California, not far from San Francisco. The theory is that the Trump momentum coming out of the Northeast state victories is not translating into the more Cruz-friendly Indiana.
Donald Trump holds all the cards in the in primary, which is make-or-break for Ted Cruz’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
But Cruz does not believe anyone will obtain 1,237 delegates and secure the nomination before the convention, he told Hannity during the town hall at the Indiana War Memorial on Friday.
Cruz had one major flub while trying to recreate a famed scene from the movie “Hoosiers”, Cruz called a hoop a “basketball ring” in the famous gym.
“When Ted Cruz is the president of the United States, I suspect Hillary Clinton will be prosecuted”. Baseball sticks? Football hats?
Meanwhile, Cruz also is ahead of Clinton by seven points (50 percent to 43 percent), while Kasich leads the former secretary of state by 19 (56 percent to 37 percent).
Either candidate needs 2,383 delegates in order to clinch the nomination. Still, she won more votes in this overwhelmingly Democratic state than other Republican candidates for statewide office that year and displayed a hard-charging campaign style that endeared her to many Republicans.
Ken Cuccinelli, a Cruz aide from Virginia who was elected as a delegate, said before the voting that while the Cruz national campaign supported the state party’s slate, the determination of grass-roots supporters in the state to pass an all-Cruz slate could cause the campaign to shift its backing.
Buoyed by a sweep of last week’s primary elections along the East Coast, the billionaire businessman appears to have learned a few lessons from his defeat last month to the Texas senator in nearby Wisconsin.
At that point, Cruz charged that NBC executives were “partisan Democrats”.
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On the eve of Indiana’s primary, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are looking past their struggling rivals and directly at each other, previewing the caustic one-on-one race that seems inevitable if they sew up the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations.
