Donald Trump says Republicans, “have fallen out of love” with his main GOP rival, Ted Cruz.
Advertisement
Donald Trump has a Plan B if he’s faced with a contested convention, and it involves the sort of outside groups that he’s called “corrupt”. Republican candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 13 percent in Indiana. Thirteen percent of people surveyed said they didn’t know who they’d support, and the poll has a 5 percent margin of error. And she took aim at both Trump and Cruz for wanting to “slash taxes on the wealthy” and for using “dangerous” rhetoric about Muslims.
“And let the record show you tried very, very hard to get me to commit to supporting Trump”.
At times, however, he sounded nearly like Clinton’s Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, telling the crowd that rich Americans “bet against the country” and “frankly, I don’t like the rich people”.
Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in a tighter race on the Democratic side.
Fifty-eight percent of likely Republican voters also disapprove of the alliance between Cruz and Kasich, who announced their collaborative efforts last week. If Cruz fails to win the state, he will be largely marginalized in his quest to deny Trump the nomination.
The real estate mogul told a rally in IN that his campaign was soaring “like a rocket ship”, and that with a new NBC poll showing him 15 percentage points ahead of his main challenger Cruz he was all but assured of winning the state. “We’ll have that teed up”, Trump said.
Trump or Cruz would need 1,237 delegates to claim the nomination, and right now Trump has 996 and Cruz has 565, according to the Associated Press delegate tracker.
Donald Trump appears to be pulling away from Sen.
He’d be in a tougher spot without Indiana’s delegates. Cruz has spent nine days in IN while Kasich spent one and Trump has spent four.
“I said it”, the state director boldly says.
Clinton only subtly hit Sanders during the rally, faulting “my opponent” for his college plan, which relies on states paying a portion of money needed for free public tuition – a tough political sell where there are Republican governors. How many delegates are up for grabs and why does the IN primary matter? Rory Cooper, a senior adviser to the Never Trump super PAC, said the group will help protect “Republican incumbents and down-ballot candidates by distinguishing their values and principles from that of Trump and protecting them from a wave election”.
Advertisement
Trump already considers himself the presumptive nominee and he’s itching be more aggressive in going after Clinton – to “get on to Hillary”, as he put it on Monday. He leads the former secretary of state, 56% to 37%, and Sanders, 47% to 46%.
