Tony Strickland, and its middle, like former congressman Doug Ose.
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A Real Clear Politics polling aggregation in the state shows Cruz just behind Trump, 35.2 percent to 37.5 percent. “It’s not ‘Stop Trump, ‘” she said. That’s because he beat Cruz and Kasich in the state’s presidential primary.
“William Pages, 19, agreed, praising the candidate as an energetic outsider who “says what needs to be said”. The billionaire businessman has 996 of the 1,237 majority of delegates he’d need to grab the nomination without a floor fight in Cleveland.
There’s no question it will be tumultuous.
About 300 people gathered outside the convention in Burlingame, south of San Francisco.
Protesters surged past riot police massed in front of the hotel where Trump was set to speak, forcing the Republican frontrunner to park his motorcade on an adjoining highway, cross over a barrier and enter the venue through the back door.
Raucous protesters and supporters of Donald Trump violently confronted each other in California Thursday following a speech by the GOP front-runner.
The only confirmed delegates from MA so far are state party chair Kirsten Hughes, national committeeman Ron Kaufman and national committeewoman Chanel Prunier. In 2007, then-Gov. Schwarzenegger warned party members that the GOP was “dying at the box office”.
Harmeet Dhillon, vice chairwoman of the California Republican Party, said this weekend’s convention was an opportunity for the candidates to build relationships and “convince reliable Republicans who have the means to go to the RNC convention to be on their slate and hopefully go back to their districts to influence voters in their districts”.
According to the anti-Trump demonstrator and college student, his father came to the US legally in the 1980s and ultimately became a citizen and business owner in California. “He does nothing to ease that”, said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a veteran California political analyst at the University of Southern California. They especially don’t like rioters who wave foreign flags. Trump has accused backers of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders of fuelling tensions at his rallies in the past, a charge Sanders has dismissed.
Trump began his bid for the Republican presidential nomination by attacking undocumented workers from Mexico and other parts of Latin America as rapists and criminals, and blaming them for the spread of drugs in the US. Kasich asked during a press conference in Burlingame Friday. “Trump is not welcome in California”.
“I see Ted Cruz as a principled conservative who’s dedicated his career to advocating the Reagan agenda”, said Pence, referring to Republican President Ronald Reagan. “If you’re one of these Republicans and you think everything is going wrong, what’s the best way to throw a wrench in everything?” He was spat on and shoved as he walked away from protesters, he said. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. Candidates had paid little attention before this month; Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul were the only hopefuls at California Republicans’ previous convention, in September, and they suspended campaigning months ago.
Henri Houdre was thrilled to see Trump live.
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“The Trump camp, while they’re organized, I think some of their guys just don’t have the institutional knowledge that some of the folks that are in the Cruz orbit have”, the Party source said. “Listening today – I don’t buy into it – but that could be a dramatic change”.
