In response, Cruz said that Trump told The New York Times’ editorial board that he wouldn’t build a wall.
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(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast).
Meanwhile, the poll showed that an overwhelming majority of USA voters believe that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, now the front-runners for the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, will win each party’s nomination.
Hundreds of protesters are confronting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Williamson, W. Va. As for his GOP rivals, Cruz and John Kasich, Trump said flatly in advance: “If we win in, it’s over”.
Cruz has been throwing everything he has into the IN contest, with a Hail Mary naming of Carly Fiorina to be his running made and a splashy endorsement by Gov. Mike Pence. Yet his aides were pessimistic heading into Tuesday’s voting and were prepared for Cruz to fall short, though the senator vowed to stay in the race, regardless of the results.
The Cruz campaign did not immediately respond for comment.
Recent polls show Trump leading in IN over Cruz by 15 to 19 points.
“If we win IN, it’s over”, Trump declared at a rally IN the state on Tuesday as he hopes to notch a victory to buttress growing expectations that he is the centre-right party’s inevitable nominee.
“With all respect, Donald Trump is deceiving you”, Cruz said.
By contrast, Trump’s image among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents has improved, with 59% viewing him favorably and 35% having an unfavorable view. “I think if he had campaigned in IN, he might not have the money to win statewide but he could have picked up some of the congressional districts”, Helmke said. Clinton had 2,165 of the 2,383 delegates and super delegates needed to win, compared to 1,357 for the Vermont senator.
“Even I would have helped her”, Trump said. Indiana, with 83 Democratic delegates at stake, can’t put her over the top or rule Sanders out. But in the face of backlash – including from non-Trump supporters who see the kerfuffle as an unnecessary headache – the delegates will now vote in person at a Friday meeting. And they favor Clinton by a almost 18-1 margin.
Sanders was holding another big rally in Evansville, Indiana Monday, and urging supporters to turn out. Sanders was making stops in Kentucky, which holds a primary in mid-May, while Clinton moved on to OH, a key general election battleground.
Watch for Sanders, campaigning in Louisville on Tuesday night, to continue his outreach to superdelegates who have endorsed Clinton.
A showdown between Clinton and Trump would pit one of Democrats’ most popular and highly-regarded figures against a first-time political candidate who is deeply divisive within his own party. As Cruz attempted to politely make his case, the Trump supporters repeatedly trolled him over his wife’s employment at Goldman Sachs and his citizenship, which Trump has openly suggested is Canadian. The two remaining Trump rivals in the GOP contest agreed on which states they would focus in an effort to hobble Trump’s progress toward the 1,237 GOP delegates required to clinch the nomination. The NBC poll found almost 6 in 10 in primary voters disapproved of the Cruz-Kasich arrangement. “I’m not willing to give up my support for life”.
Kasich released a new radio ad in Oregon Monday.
As Cruz worked the dining room here and a long line winding through the parking lot, a number of supporters alluded to his seemingly perilous position in Indiana.
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Pace reported from Washington.
