Cruz hopes to slow Trump’s march toward the nomination in Indiana’s primary on Tuesday.
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Trump, the GOP front-runner, is closing in on the 1,237 delegates he needs to sew up the nomination before the Republican National Convention in July.
But Cruz and Kasich aim to slow his momentum just enough to force a battle for delegates on the convention floor. Cruz can prevail in next Tuesday’s victor take all primary in IN in which 57 delegates are at stake. She dismissed the notion that Republican primary voters are rejecting her characterization of Trump as a Clintonian liberal – in droves. Fiorina then walked out on stage to enormous applause from the crowd of roughly 500, and wasted little time attacking Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hilary Clinton.
“Picking a candidate that is talented, tough – she takes on Trump really well, I think, and she takes on Hillary Clinton very well, as well”, Bush said.
That media-bashing was also a way for Cruz to tee up another tactic against Trump: Cramming the words “Donald and Hillary” into almost every sentence while laying out a list of 13 policy areas on which he said Trump and Clinton hold similar positions.
In his defense, Cruz might have had no choice but to pick Fiorina since Boehner wouldn’t make a deal with “Lucifer in the Flesh”.
“I’m still thinking, but now that he has Carly Fiorina, I like her”, Wyatt, 54, told ABC News.
In Indiana, the focus will be on the contest between Trump and Cruz. He said he felt he “owed” the donation to Cruz because of his strong support of Israel, Zeidman’s top issue.
Trump let on that he’s eager to move on to a likely general election race against Clinton. He assailed her handling of the deadly 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, and said that during her tenure as secretary of state, the US had a “reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy”.
Meanwhile, Clinton, after trashing Trump for accusing her of playing the woman card, played the woman card herself, promising that precisely half her cabinet would be made up of women.
“I’ve never seen such a combo of simplistic slogans and contradictions and misstatements in one speech”, Albright said. With four victories Tuesday, she now has 91 percent of the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
She also said that his campaign intends to continue through the final contest in California, despite a revelation Wednesday that the campaign plans to lay off hundreds of field staffers and other aides.
The Sanders campaign says they hope to rehire numerous staffers if the senator wins the Democratic nomination.
The convention comes at the end of a week where the Cruz and Kasich campaigns announced an unorthodox and shaky (some would say desperate) strategic alliance. The former HP executive endorsed Cruz after dropping out of the race in February, saying that he was the only candidate with the potential to beat Trump. She fought her way to the top: “from a secretary, to the first female CEO of a Fortune 50 company, to a 2016 Republican vice presidential candidate”, reads a statement on Cruz’s campaign website homepage.
Since dropping out, she has become Cruz’s most active surrogate, making frequent campaign appearances alongside him and on her own.
But that strategy, which appeared to unravel even as it was announced, can’t help either man with the tens of thousands of IN voters who had already cast ballots: Early voting began IN IN three weeks before they hatched their plan.
“I’m not against anybody, but I will be voting for Ted Cruz in the upcoming Republican primary”, Pence said in an interview on Indianapolis radio.
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Polls show Cruz has more of a challenge in delegate-rich California, where he lags Trump 28.3 percent to 45.7 percent. Bernie Sanders in Missouri’s Democratic primary.
