Sen. Ted Cruz suspended his campaign following a resounding defeat in IN by businessman Donald Trump.
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The billionaire won the support of Republican men by a more than 25-point margin over Cruz.
“I understand that Secretary Clinton thinks this campaign is over; I got some bad news for her”.
IN voters also overwhelmingly expressed concern about the state of the US economy. Trump needed just 42 percent of all the remaining delegates to get to the magic number of 1,237, and that number will continue to drop with his IN victory. It isn’t about Donald Trump or any of the candidates.
A defiant Sanders has insisted he’ll continue through California’s June 7 primary in a bid to win – or at least carry as much influence as possible into the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Despite the loss, Mrs. Clinton largely has moved past Mr. Sanders and is turning her fire on Mr. Trump.
The result in the Hoosier State means that Sanders will take a majority of Indiana’s 83 delegates, allowing the Vermont lawmaker to gain some ground on Clinton, but not enough to cut substantially into her sizeable delegate lead. Cruz has 565 delegates and Governor John Kasich from OH has 153 delegates.
Clinton will now look ahead to the general election against likely Republican nominee Donald Trump, but remain mindful of the Sanders threat she still faces. Half of non-Trump voters would be scared and another third would be concerned about Trump being president. Here’s a quick refresher on where the (remaining) candidates stand. … A Trump win, however, would make Cruz’s path extremely hard: As Vox notes, a Cruz loss today would mean there is “very little reason to believe he can win California”, the biggest state left in the primary process.
Trump and Sanders have both criticized their parties’ nomination processes and gone after their opponents for what they call unfair tactics.
Ms Clinton is due to campaign in the Golden State later this week, where she is around 10 points ahead in recent polls.
More Indiana Democratic primary voters think Clinton, 50 percent, would have a better chance to defeat Trump than Sanders, 47 percent. Despite a string of victories, Cruz, whose policies are as off-putting to many Republicans as Trump’s, hasn’t been able to build an anti-Trump coalition and certainly hasn’t been able to woo Trump’s supporters.
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IN emerged as a firewall for Cruz and the #NeverTrump forces who were set on stopping the controversial GOP front-runner from getting the Republican nomination. He aims to show the support for left wing positions amongst disaffected voters before the Democratic convention in July. And you and your campaign also, rightly, often point out you do well in open primaries, like in was tonight, because there’s independent voters.
