However, Kasich had said Tuesday that regardless of the IN results he would continue his campaign, something that he repeated on his Twitter account after Cruz’s withdrawal.
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“In light of the exit from the race by Ted Cruz and John Kasich, it is now clear that Donald Trump will accumulate the delegates necessary to be nominated by the Republican Party”, DeSantis said in a statement.
The Ohio governor will suspend his campaign Wednesday afternoon, according to NBC News, leaving Donald Trump as the only person left in the GOP field. “I will do everything I can to make the economy work for everybody, to help more people lift themselves out of poverty, lift themselves into the middle class, and go as far as their hard work and talents will take them”, she said.
In an interview to CNN, Trump said he and his campaign has started to shortlist and compile “potential vice presidential” running mates which would include some of his former rivals in the Republican presidential primaries – Ben Carson and Chris Christie.
“I know people aren’t sure right now what a President Trump will be like”, he told The New York Times.
“But things will be fine”.
“I would think his victory would maybe grease the skids for a Clinton triumph”, Katz said.
To say the race has been divisive is an understatement: The day he clinched the nomination, he suggested, insanely, that Ted Cruz’s father was somehow involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Trump also has spurred record Republican primary participation. So Gingrich is asking Republican voters who have serious misgivings about Trump to support him even though he himself is hardly asking them to do so.
Trump became the de facto Republican nominee after Texas Sen.
The former secretary of state, however, suffered a shock loss in IN to her challenger Bernie Sanders, who has pledged to remain in the race until the end in spite of an extremely steep hill to climb. “Donald Trump is the nominee of our party, and I am committed to voting for him and supporting him so that we can take our country back from the liberal policies of Obama and Clinton”. “There will not be the rally effect that you normally get with a presidential candidate”, Wilson said.
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A few weeks ago, Cruz and Kasich made a decision to join forces to try and halt Trump’s drive to the presidential nomination by preventing him from garnering the 1,237 GOP delegates needed, thus ensuring a brokered or open convention where they might each have a greater chance to get the party’s nod. Top party strategists behind the #NeverTrump movement failed to gain any traction in their coordinated efforts to deprive Trump of the 1237 delegates to secure the nomination.
