Trump backers have been incensed at what they call maneuvering by the Texas senator’s backers to “pack” the convention.
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The Republican front-runner was in California ahead of its 7 June primary, when the most convention delegates of the Republican nominating cycle will be at stake.
Check back for updates throughout the day on the convention and the speeches by Cruz and Fiorina.
Cuccinelli also said that “test issues” voted on earlier in the weekend revealed broad Cruz support among the activists who made up the state convention.
It isn’t certain which candidate Baker prefers, although he has said he’s not willing to vote for Trump, even if he emerges as the party’s nominee.
If Mr Trump makes a clean sweep of all 57 delegates in IN, he stands a good chance of clinching the required 1237 by the end of the primaries on June 7 that will give him the candidacy ahead of the convention.
Cruz hopes to slow Trump’s march toward the nomination in Indiana’s primary on Tuesday.
However, mathematically impossible for him to win the nomination before the convention, Cruz said he’ll still stick around even he loses on Tuesday.
“Donald trump isn’t going to challenge the system. he is the system”, Fiorina said of the GOP frontrunner.
There’s no clear result because some candidates were on both slates.
Cruz trails front-runner Donald Trump by hundreds of delegates. Downs said 30% of the surveys were completed before Cruz and Kasich announced a pact for Kasich to pull out of campaigning in IN, meant to block Trump from winning the state. The Texas senator has been camped out in the crucial state of in, which holds its primary Tuesday.
Fifty- seven delegates of up for grabs in Indiana.
That entitles him to 22 MA delegates who are bound to vote for him on the first round of voting at the convention.
With Trump pulling away from Cruz and Kasich in the delegate count, the two teamed up to try to deny Trump the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright, forcing a contested convention.
Trump got lots of laughs when he joked about Kasich’s eating during press availabilities.
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Fifty-eight percent of likely Republican voters also disapprove of the alliance between Cruz and Kasich, who announced their collaborative efforts last week.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the NAACP’s 61st annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner in Detroit, Sunday.
Front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will have essentially sealed the Republican U.S. presidential nomination if he wins Tuesday’s contest in IN, where he holds a big lead over chief rival Ted Cruz.
State Treasurer Jeff DeWit says it’s time for the party to get behind Trump, who he says it nearing a lock on the nomination with more than 1,000 delegates. Virginia House of Delegates Majority Leader Tim Hugo was among them, and he was the state chair for Rubio’s campaign.
Cory Crowley was Kasich’s state director in Iowa, and he said the Cruz-Kasich pact is more of a resource allocation than anything else.
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John Rosado, of Phoenix, signs in to select delegates to attend the National Republican convention during the Arizona Republican 2016 state convention at the Mesa Convention Center Saturday, April 30, 2016. Trump won Missouri’s 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 8th congressional districts.
