Both rallies come at a moment in which Trump is preparing for the state’s June 7 primary, where he could secure the GOP presidential nomination.
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Some demonstrators blocked a nearby highway entrance momentarily and used hotel benches to block traffic, according to a protester who spoke to the New York Times.
I leave you with KRON 4’s Stanley Roberts’s People Behaving Badly segment devoted to the anti-Trump protesters. “We were walking over and under fences”. “I felt like I was crossing the border, actually”. I’m leading by hundreds of delegates. Some of the delegates sported GOP-red outfits.
Quizzed by the same reporters on Saturday, Brewer said the party meeting “was improperly run….” “I hope I won’t have to be faced with that dilemma”, he said. Protesters also draped a large “Stop Hate” banner outside the hotel. Hundreds showed up, and at least one man was arrested.
The rally turned violent as a mob of protesters attacked a Trump supporter, snatching his “Make America Great Again” hat and punching and kicking him.
In Alaska, state party leaders picked a slate of 28 delegates – 12 for Cruz, 11 for Trump and five for Sen. De Luna said she prefers Kasich, who struck an upbeat, inclusive tone in his speech Friday night.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest drew parallels between the Boston Tea Party that helped spark the American revolution and the anti-Donald Trump protest in California, where police cars were damaged and there was even an attempt to overturn a vehicle.
In an indication of efforts to court the state, Cruz on Wednesday made the unusual move of naming a vice presidential running mate, onetime presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina, who was formerly a chief executive of the California technology company Hewlett-Packard Co.
One Costa Mesa police officer was struck in the head by a rock thrown by a protestor, authorities said.
In a wild scene outside a Donald Trump rally in Orange County, a auto began doing donuts around protesters Thursday evening. One news photographer captured a man wearing a Trump T-shirt whose face had been bloodied. Some 20 people were arrested. Police helicopters, as well as a row of officers on horseback and others in full riot gear, were deployed to keep the pro- and anti-Trump sides from clashing.
It remains uncertain whether Trump will amass the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination ahead of the Republican convention in Cleveland in July. She compares him to Trump.
Cruz portrayed himself as the true conservative in the race, a point his campaign hammered home Saturday in an email blast claiming Trump gave $12,000 in campaign money from 2004 to 2013 to three of California’s top Democrats: Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris. They said they were protesting Trump’s lack of engagement on issues of gender equality and women’s rights.
The candidates are competing for 172 delegates in California, 159 of which will be awarded by congressional district.
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On a second vote at the convention, delegates can vote for whichever candidate they want.
