Everyone said it wouldn’t happen.
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In her first public comments since Indiana’s primary effectively handed Donald Trump the Republican nomination, Hillary Clinton promised supporters she would not be “dumbfounded” by Trump’s unorthodox tactics, as she said his GOP rivals were.
November’s U.S. presidential election is taking shape: Republican billionaire Donald Trump and Democratic power player Hillary Clinton look set for an ugly battle for the White House after a bruising primary season.
Mr Trump holds a commanding lead and is closing in on the nomination.
Meanwhile, sitting in Trump Tower, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer spoke with Trump and broke the news to him that John Kasich is suspending his campaign Wednesday night. “Hundreds and hundreds of people were coming in that were registered Democrats that wanted to vote for Donald Trump”. “I think this will be one of his worst states, I would imagine”.
But the grind of presidential politics leaves no time for savoring victory.
When is the New Jersey primary? Trump added that Kasich could be useful in the general election by appealing to voters in OH, which is considered a swing state.
“It is a big challenge but he has already defied every single thing of political gravity that we have known”, said Mike Shields, former Chief of Staff for the Republican National Committee.
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“Donald Trump has built his campaign on fear, stoking the embers of racism, sexism and xenophobia that still remain in this country, but that hasn’t stopped the Tennessee Republicans from endorsing and actively campaigning for him”, Democratic chairwoman Mary Mancini said. And nearly 9 out of 10 voters in the poll called the economy extremely or very important to their vote, outranking any other issue tested in the poll.
“It’s time to face the facts – as Republicans, we have failed to convince or demonstrate the wisdom of our conservative policies to the voters, and we are thus partially responsible for the rise of Trump”. Ted Cruz’s withdrawal from the 2016 presidential race.
With an unerring eye for a rival’s weaknesses, he revolutionized how campaigns are won, becoming a master of social media, hijacking news agendas with skills honed on a reality television and a mastery of targeted marketing. “If he wants to go back to the playbook of the 1990s, if he wants to follow in the footsteps of those who have tried to knock me down and take me out of the political arena, I’m more than happy to have him do that”.
“Like a kid in a superhero costume, Trump compares himself to Ronald Reagan, wearing the Gipper’s slogan on his forehead as if he just thought of it”, he wrote, referencing Trump’s frequent insistence that he will “make America great again”. Ted Cruz, dropping out.
“Republicans will need that firewall in Congress to push back against liberal nominees to the Supreme Court or the policies that we will oppose [under a Clinton presidency]”, he says.
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“She can’t put it away”, he said. “And loose cannons tend to misfire”.
