It was the second day of protests in a row against the Republican front-runner in the race for the White House.
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After Cruz addresses the California convention Saturday, it’s back to IN, where the state’s 57 delegates are seen as critical as to whether Cruz can stop Trump from winning the nomination before the GOP convention IN July. The Pittsburgh resident says the state’s rules were drawn up to give her latitude to take into account events leading to the convention, including Trump’s considerable support in western Pennsylvania.
“It’s really important that we win because if we win – you know, we want to raise money for the party and we want to raise money for the Senate races and the congressional races and do a lot of things instead of wasting our time with these people”, Trump said.
“It felt like I was crossing the border actually”. Some of the delegates sported GOP-red outfits.
Burlingame Police Lt. Jay Kiely said on Friday that five people were arrested. “He’s for America and business”, said Gilbert, 71, of Woodside.
“I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better”.
Waving Mexican flags and Dump Trump placards, protesters grew boisterous when they learned Trump’s security personnel had out-foxed the demonstration, as hundreds of protesters pushed toward the hotel. Protesters hung a banner that read “Dump Trump” from an overhead walkway near the entrance. A man wearing a Trump T-shirt One man was injured in the face.
A Trump supporter walking toward the hotel was surrounded by protesters.
“It shows the party is moving toward Cruz in the West”, he said.
“I’ve been saying for months I will vote for Trump in the first through the last ballot”, said Buckwalter, an estate and trusts lawyer from suburban Philadelphia. “I’m here to redress grievances now preemptively”, she said. His vice presidential pick, Carly Fiorina, who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate from California in 2010, was scheduled to speak Saturday night.
On CBS, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has endorsed Cruz even though he has said he loathes the Texas senator, said Trump’s foreign policy amounts to “isolationism”.
Trump has snapped up support from California stalwarts like Strickland, Ted Costa and former congressman Doug Ose.
In what experts say is preview of more such incidents, Trump supporters were attacked by anti-Trump protesters while leaving a rally in California Thursday night.
“We have a density of Latinos you don’t see in other places”, Henry Vandermeir, chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party, said of the state.
The poll is the latest in a slew of surveys that have found Trump expanding his lead in Indiana.
Friday proved to be a wild day for both Trump and California Republicans in general, who have always been ignored in the Golden State.
Early on at the state’s convention over the weekend, the Republican Party of Virginia was expected to put up a slate comprised of a mix of each presidential campaign’s supporters. But only on the first ballot.
“It’s unprecedented, the way that they are trying to disenfranchise their own constituents”, said Harper, who expects to appear on the Trump slate as an at-large delegate.
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BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) The Republican Party in California has been riven for decades between those who want to tack to the ideological center to expand its diminishing appeal and those who want it to enforce conservative purity.
