On the heels of former GOP candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich putting an end to their presidential bids Wednesday, Sanders supporters and Clinton haters alike took to Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #DropOutHillary.
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz drops out of his party’s race for the White House after losing the IN primary to frontrunner Donald Trump. Mnuchin “brings his expertise in finance to what will be an extremely successful fundraising operation for the Republican Party”, Trump says.
John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee, said he would support Trump.
But the wounds from a brutal primary battle were still raw among many Republican loyalists who simply cannot bear to support Trump because they worry he could spell disaster for the party in November.
“Donald Trump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton”, Priebus said, in an extraordinary embrace of a candidate the party establishment had fought tooth and nail to stop.
Nebraska’s other US senator, Republican Deb Fischer, made clear she would support the party’s nominee but is not comfortable with Trump, in an interview with Nebraska Radio Network. Kasich only won one state – his home of OH – back on March 15 and hadn’t amassed many delegates since then.
Three campaign officials who spoke to The Associated Press said the OH governor plans to announce his decision in a statement from his home state later Wednesday.
Baxley also said candidates down the ballot might try to learn things from Trump’s unorthodox campaign, whether joining him in touting the fact that they’re investing in their own campaigns or shying away from referring to “endorsements” by that name.
After a losing streak last month, Sanders predicted he’ll follow up his IN win with “more victories” IN the coming weeks. “I’m going to really give it my all to give every person, specifically every child in this country, to give them every opportunity to rise”. People will be voting for me. “They’re not voting for the party”.
A senior Trump campaign source said Wednesday that the campaign’s early favorites for vice president are now New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Ben Carson heading up that vetting process. Some Republican senators in tough races struggled Wednesday to position themselves in a party with Trump at the helm.
Was Trump right? Had he already collected the most primary votes in history? “America will now start to see the many false faces of Donald Trump”.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ upset victory in IN is likely to extend the Democratic primary battle for at least another month, complicating Hillary Clinton’s efforts to focus on presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump even as she remains a virtual lock for her party’s nomination. “We are left in a very untenable situation where if we are looking at Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as our choices, I can’t in good conscience offer my vote for either”. But he thinks there will be Republican unity when it comes to state legislative races. “We have to unite the party if we want to win in November”, said Henry Barbour, a Republican National Committee leader from Mississippi.
In March, the hashtag #ToneDownForWhat went viral after one of Clinton’s top aides made chiding comments about Sanders’s “negative” tone before the primaries in NY, prompting Sanders’s supporters to give reason to his “tone”. A recent poll found Trump with the support of 53 percent of Republican participants, well above Cruz at 25 percent. Kasich had 16 percent. The former reality TV star now can prepare for a matchup in the Nov 8 election with Hillary Clinton expected to be his Democratic opponent. The poll included 623 Democrats and 556 Republicans and had a credibility interval of 5 percentage points.
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Experts who track this say Trump is on pace to break the record, but is still shy by about 800,000 votes. “To the extent that his campaign had a policy theme, it was his advocacy for a balanced-budget amendment – a vague promise, tethered to his work on balancing the national budget while in the U.S. House in the 1990s”.
