Back on the East Coast, Trump and Clinton used victory rallies to snipe at each other, a taste of the kind of back and forth that will take place should they win their party’s nominations and face off in the general election campaign. If he does not win a majority, the Republican party could theoretically pick another candidate.
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Asked on “Fox & Friends” about Cruz naming a running mate, Trump said, “To me it looks ridiculous, he’s not going to get the nomination”.
In response, the Cruz and Kasich campaigns already are discussing the possibility of extending their pact to the June 7 primaries, when 303 delegates are at stake, including 172 in California. “(Ted) Cruz have really, really hurt themselves with a faulty deal that was defaulted on before it was even started”.
Yet gender politics have at times been tricky for Clinton, who has been losing against her Democratic primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders won 129 delegates, 13 of which came from his Rhode Island victory.
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Donald Trump has won a vast majority of the unbound delegate count in the state of Pennsylvania, according to an ABC News analysis. The Manhattan billionaire won each district in the state.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday said Hillary Clinton would pose less of a challenge than most of his GOP rivals. It was also the only state that was an open party that allowed voters who aren’t Democrats to participate in the primary.
The wins, however, bring Clinton even closer to the 2,383 needed for the nomination.
Per Tuesday night’s results, Trump earned far more than that.
It’s unclear whether mirroring Sanders will be an effective strategy for Trump, who along with Clinton has a strong lead in the presidential primaries.
Trump, the Republican businessman, pushed forward with his charge that Clinton is “playing the woman card”, telling CNN’s “New Day” in a telephone interview Wednesday that “she does have the woman card” but said that “a lot of women don’t like Hillary, despite the card”. “The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card, and the lovely thing is women don’t like her, Okay?”
Clinton addressed Trump’s accusations head-on.
Manafort told RNC members that Trump has been “projecting an image” with his insult-throwing, anti-establishment performances on the primary campaign trail, but “the part that he’s been playing is now evolving”. In Pennsylvania, exit polls showed almost 4 in 10 GOP voters said they would be excited by Trump becoming president, but the prospect of the real estate mogul in the White House scared a quarter of those who cast ballots in the state’s Republican primary.
She also responded over Twitter.
Adding a wrinkle to Trump’s efforts, Cruz and Kasich announced a tentative alliance aimed at undermining him.
He continues to say he has a path to winning the nomination, though he acknowledges it is a hard one.
If Cruz and Kasich are showing no signs of backing down, across the aisle, Sanders sent a more conciliatory message.
“The people in every state in this country should have the right to determine who they want as President and what the agenda of the Democratic Party should be”, Sanders said.
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In the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders says he is not going to quit his presidential campaign until the Democratic convention.
