A quarter of GOP voters in IN said they would not vote for Trump in a general election, according to exit polls.
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On Tuesday, Indiana votes in the Democratic and Republican primaries, but the main drama is between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has made a habit of giving his primary night speeches here, and it’s easy to see why-the skyscraper is to Trump what Chicago is to Barack Obama, and what that ranch in Crawford, Texas was to George W. Bush, the piece of land that serves as the locus of accepted mythology surrounding his presidential campaign.
CNN- Ted Cruz is out, but John Kasich isn’t going anywhere, his camp said Tuesday night.
The Democratic presidential candidate race in the midwestern state was much closer fought, with Bernie Sanders winning with 52 per cent, ahead of rival Hilary Clinton’s 48 per cent. However, Clinton still leads the candidate race overall.
Trump’s immediate challenge is to unite deep fissures within the Republican Party as many party loyalists are appalled at his bullying style, his treatment of women and his signature proposals to build a wall on the border with Mexico and deport 11 million illegal immigrants.
Clinton’s team has started deploying staff to states that will be crucial in November and is also raising money for the fall campaign. But while 55 percent of Americans said they had a negative opinion of Clinton in an Associated Press-GfK poll released last month, 69 percent said the same of Trump. Some will despair. Others will say “I’m with her” and reluctantly move to Hillary Clinton’s side. A total of 2,383 delegates are needed for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Twitter and Instagram users mocked the Republican candidate when he jabbed his finger into her face and hit her with his elbow as he embraced his father Rafael.
“That’s where we have to be because we are going to have a tough campaign against a candidate who’ll literally say or do anything”, she said of Trump.
She and Trump now plunge into a six-month battle for the presidency, with the future of America’s immigration laws, health care system and military posture around the world at stake.
“Donald Trump will be presumptive GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating Hillary Clinton”, GOP chair Reince Priebus tweeted.
Putting aside the venom he has spewed at Cruz this year, Trump said of the senator, “He is one hell of a competitor”.
One outside group trying to stop him suggested it would shift its attention to helping Republicans in other races.
To win the party’s presidential nomination, Trump is still 190 delegates short of the magical figure of 1,237, but this is something he can now achieve easily with Cruz out of the race.
Mr Kasich pledged to stay in the race, with his campaign manager saying he would continue to “offer the voters a clear choice for our country”.
Clinton was losing to Vermont Sen. Other conservative activists and intellectuals pledged to support Clinton.
With his narrow IN victory, Mr Sanders picked up at least 43 of the state’s 83 delegates.
Three-quarters of black voters supported Clinton, but they were far outnumbered by white voters, almost 6 in 10 of whom supported Sanders. Bernie Sanders, the former secretary of state has a broad lead among delegates. And the fusillades of invective aimed at Trump – attacking Trump’s marital infidelity and bouts with venereal disease, and saying Trump believed “grown men should be allowed to use the little girls’ restroom” – was Hail Mary number three.
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The party now finds itself in an arranged marriage with Trump, who just hours before was branded by Cruz “utterly amoral”, and a “pathological liar”.
