Some even said that they would vote for Hillary Clinton.
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Ohio Governor John Kasich will suspend his presidential campaign on Wednesday, his aides told U.S. media, a move that would leave front-runner Donald Trump as the sole Republican candidate in the White House race.
“He is a loose cannon and loose cannons tend to misfire”, Clinton said in an interview with CNN, citing what she said was Trump’s claim that climate change was a Chinese hoax. Many Republicans who oppose Donald Trump – because he’s a self-serving, unreliable conservative likely to alienate huge swaths of the American electorate – weren’t particularly strong on Cruz, a staunch conservative but also a craven opportunist who hurt the GOP brand with such kamikaze stunts as his push to shut down the government in a bound-to-fail (and it did) bid to defund Obamacare. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and former Sen. Just a few weeks ago, the Republicans were gearing up for a contested convention in Cleveland which would have meant political street fighting in a rough-and-tumble atmosphere with a totally unpredictable outcome.
For the past month and a half, Cruz and Kasich remained in the race as alternatives to Trump even though their chances remained daunting.
But he didn’t have very kind words for Trump in September when they were competing for the Republican nomination. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had more positive than negative numbers – Kasich by 12 percent and Sanders by 9 percent. Ted Cruz to drop out of the race. But what say he now that Trump is the Republican man of the year?
Largely ignoring Sanders in her recent campaign appearances, the former secretary of state has already pivoted to a general election strategy, portraying Trump as divisive, unsafe and incompetent. Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus said Mr Trump would be the party’s nominee and “we all need to unite and focus” on defeating Mrs Clinton.
Most significant win Trump’s landslide victory in IN, beating Cruz by 53 per cent to 37 per cent, was his most significant win yet.
Maybe Donald Trump makes things interesting in November?
Bob Vander Plaats, an influential evangelical leader who backed Cruz, withheld his support for Trump on Wednesday, saying the real estate mogul needs to prove his conservative credentials with his vice presidential pick and more information about what kind of judges he would appoint.
He later said he could consider Kasich, predicting the OH governor would be helpful this fall in any role given his state’s significance in the general election. “If he wants to go back to the playbook of the 1990s, if he wants to follow in the footsteps of those who have tried to knock me down and take me out of the political arena, I’m more than happy to have him do that”. “I don’t want anyone to have big influence over me”, he said.
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In a presidential head-to-head, however, Mrs Clinton led Mr Trump by about 10 percentage points among likely voters.
