Instead, he ran into a dead end. If Kasich and Cruz proved too narrow in their reach, Marco Rubio proved too shallow. Ted Cruz suspended his campaign Tuesday night following Trump’s IN primary win.
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That was wishful thinking and would have posed an existential risk for the party if it had made a decision to ignore the will of the 10.7 million voters who want the billionaire to be the party’s flag-bearer.
Trump’s new efforts include taking pains to reassure party leaders that he wants to help Republican Senate and House candidates, some of whom have expressed major concerns that Trump at the top of the GOP ticket will be a drag on their own campaigns.
Trump’s claim “is simply absurd and… must be treated as the nonsense that it is”, said Tim Worstall, a senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, a British think tank. He spoke of helping others to rise and in doing so lifting oneself. It’s disappointing. People are angry.
While Clinton has significant advantages with minority voters and women, Democrats have vowed to not underestimate Trump, as his Republican rivals did.
“Now we have been given no choice but between Stalin and Hitler”, he said.
After designating Donald Trump as the party’s presumptive nominee, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday: “I think something different and something new is probably good for our party”.
Is the current nominee’s failure to win the support of the two previous Republican presidents a sign of faultlines within the Republican party?
Even before Tuesday, both Cruz and Kasich had already been mathematically eliminated from getting the 1,237 requisite delegates to stop Trump on the first ballot at a GOP convention.
It emerged over the U.S. winter as initial scepticism over Trump’s chances turned to anxiety among conservatives, who view numerous Manhattan real estate mogul’s policy pledges as a liberal threat to their low-tax, low-spending principles. He had swept the northeast and the mid-Atlantic states, and won much of the south, but the midwest had proved tricky territory for the NY property developer. IN put those doubts about his candidacy here to rest.
But even though a vocal segment of the Republican Party has denounced Trump, so far few have been willing to go as far as saying they would back Clinton in the fall. He addressed some of the controversial proposals that have blighted his favorability among a majority of Americans, and said “of course” he didn’t believe Ted Cruz’s father was linked to the JFK assassination despite circulating a tabloid report just one day earlier. Another 43 per cent said their primary motivation was a liking for Trump’s political positions, while 6 per cent said they liked him personally.
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Trump will now turn his attention toward the general election against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton – a more uphill fight than he had in the primary contest he dominated for much of the past year. After the invective that Trump has filled the party with, that will be hard. Now it is all but certain Mr Trump will have the 1237 delegates needed to become the nominee before the July convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
