Cruz has spent the past week in IN, campaigning and getting the support of the state’s governor.
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Labor Department figures show that the USA has strung together 73 months of private-sector job growth since the 2008-2009 recession, the longest on record. “Tonight, I’m sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed”, Cruz told supporters.
Trump was on track to take over 50 percent of the vote. “Desperate but impressive. Reminded me of my 3 year old coming off a sugar high”, Donald Trump Jr.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs after speaking during a campaign rally at the Century Center in South Bend, Indiana, U.S., May 2, 2016.
The senator has avoided directly answering whether he would support Trump as the Republican presidential nominee.
How many delegates do they need to win the nomination and how many delegates are left?
According to CNN estimates, Trump already has 1,002 of the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination.
Cruz was responding to questions about Trump’s unsubstantiated assertion that Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, had connections to the President John F. Kennedy’s killer, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Meanwhile, another IN poll showed the opposite IN the GOP race.
“If Indiana does not act, this country could well plunge into the abyss”, Cruz said.
“Donald Trump is a serial philanderer and he boasts about it”, Cruz said.
Pence’s tepid endorsement of Cruz highlighted the senator’s difficulty in competing against Trump.
On the morning of the latest most important primary in the Republican nominating process, one candidate’s father says he is marked by God to save the nation from eschatological destruction. Trump has led nearly all recent public and private polls, with a double-digit advantage in some surveys.
It was supposed to be a feel-good gathering, the candidate’s first public appearance with Mike Pence since the IN governor had thrown his support behind the Texan last week. FiveThirtyEight gave Trump an 83% chance of winning the state based on its polls-plus model, and a 97% chance of winning based on its polls-only projection. Most delegate counts have him just shy of 1,000 pledged delegates. Cruz has claimed only 565 delegates.
Front-runner Hillary Clinton, who holds a narrow poll lead in the state, has not made as many personal appearances as Sanders.
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“Together we left it all in the field in IN, we gave it everything we got”, he said. “They’re gone”, Trump said at Monday’s rally in Carmel, Indiana.
