“With Donald Trump’s win in IN and Ted Cruz dropping out, Trump has functionally secured the nomination”, Keene said.
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The Red Oak Republican says Trump has the ability to unite the GOP.
According to The New York Times, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Ben Carson and Mary Fallin have all said they’d be interested in running with Trump. He added, “I think it is good for the United States of America, good for the Democratic Party, to have a vigorous debate, to engage people in the political process”. But Cruz’s comments – comments he prefaced by saying, “I’m going to do something I haven’t done for the entire campaign…”
Clinton lost the Democratic primary contest in IN on Tuesday but still looks set to win her party’s nomination, leading her rival, US Senator Bernie Sanders, by more than 800 delegates.
Conservative blogger and radio host Erick Erickson said Wednesday he’s had a number of conversations about laying the groundwork for a third-party candidate to oppose Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the general election. “Tonight, I’m sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed”.
U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) holds a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington March 17, 2016.
Trump suggests that the DNC’s processes benefit him, though, because he’d prefer to run against Hillary Clinton.
Mr Kasich had been widely seen as the most moderate and electable Republican candidate and polled well against Hillary Trump, but that did not garner him enough support among Republican voters.
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But in a series of Wednesday morning television interviews, Trump, 69, made clear he would not forget some wounds from a tumultuous primary campaign in which many establishment Republicans rejected him and spawned Stop Trump and Never Trump movements. Trump was happy Sanders beat Clinton in Indiana. “I think we need to have a raise for the American people, raise the minimum wage, get wages back going up”, Ms. Clinton said. Also seemingly inevitable, if not yet over, is the race for the Democratic presidential nominee.
