Donald Trump told reporters Monday that if he wins big in the Hoosier state, the GOP Primary race is over.
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Trump’s mention of the story about Rafael Cruz, a minister and Cuban immigrant who has been an active surrogate for his son’s campaign, came as voters in IN were voting in the state’s crucial presidential primary.
And same is the mood of the nation, CNN said in its latest opinion poll.
For comparison, Donald Trump-the man the Republican Party’s establishment wants to stop so badly they were willing to team up with Cruz, a man many of them clearly hate-has a net-favorability of positive-24 percent among the same group.
“After they made the alliance, their numbers tanked”, Trump said Monday. Cruz said, referencing the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination.
Clinton and Sanders, meanwhile, will go head-to-head for 83 pledged delegates, which will be allocated proportionally, as well as nine unpledged, or so-called “superdelegates”. It would also be one of the rarest occasion that the candidates would be from the same city and having their headquarters on NY.
Donald Trump could take another decisive step towards the Republican nomination for president in the next 24 hours.
“Honestly, if we win IN, it’s over”.
Trump brought up the conspiracy theory, spread by the National Enquirer, that Cruz’s father was an acquaintance of John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Ted Cruz, calling him “disgraceful” after he urged evangelical voters in IN to reject his son’s rival. Even a loss in IN, he said, would not give them any path to nomination.
“We’re looking really good in this state; it’s looking really good”, Perez told KING 5.
“He’s going to kick butt”, she said. We are way over and way ahead of projection and we’ll do it on the first ballot.
Also, after five primary victories last week, Trump’s lead among Republican voters increased 6 points to 56 percent, according to the poll.
On the Democratic side of the ticket, Senator Bernie Sanders says he will not bow out of the race, and continues to question front-runner Hillary Clinton’s ties to Wall Street.
Clinton, too, needs to win over Sanders’ enthusiastic supporters.
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Clinton led with 63 percent of the vote to 37 percent for Sanders.
