Mr Trump’s triumph completes an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and sets the stage for a bitter campaign in the autumn.
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He’s also poking Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for not being able to “close the deal”.
“If you look at what’s happened, tremendous support from all over the country”.
Trump addressed the terrorism problem saying it’s a worldwide issue and not enough is being done to stop it. Until then, he continues to be the presumptive nominee.
Trump has vowed to return to New Mexico before the general election and win a state where Democrats account for 47 percent of registered voters. “I’ll leave it at that”.
The party does not provide an official delegate count throughout the primary race, leading several U.S. news organizations to compile their own estimates.
Obama’s assessment of the presidential campaign came on the sidelines of a Group of Seven advanced economies summit in Japan earlier this week, the latest world gathering to be coloured by global concerns about Trump.
“For anyone who comes to disrupt, to do illegal activities, we will take swift and decisive action to make sure we have a peaceful event”, Zimmerman said. Trump’s team acknowledges the importance of the voting bloc, but says there has been little organized outreach so far. “There were a lot of Republicans who had said that they were “Never Trump”. and that’s just not the case”.
“I’m not ashamed to vote for Trump”. The 1860 and 1868 conventions saw delegates stand up and challenge the votes announced by their delegation chairs, and in all cases the convention recorded the delegates’ votes according to their wishes and regardless of any state party rules or instructions to bind delegates votes.
Many on the right have been slow to warm to Trump, wary of his conservative bona fides. Others worry about his crass personality and the lewd comments he has made about women. But that truce appeared to be short-lived.
But millions of grass-roots activists, many of them outsiders to the political process, have embraced Trump as a plain-speaking populist who is not afraid to offend.
As of Thursday, the AP estimates, Donald Trump has the pledged support of 1,238 delegates, one more than the 1,237 required to win the nomination.
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Martinez said in a statement that she will not be bullied into supporting a candidate until she is convinced that the White House hopeful will fight for New Mexicans. What I want to do, I think cutting Social Security is a big mistake for the Republican Party. The dismissal yesterday of a top campaign strategist, alongside persistent stories of infighting among his top two campaign managers (Lewandowski and Mannafort), is not a good sign of Trump’s control of things.
