There were more machinations to try to salvage his hopes in IN over the weekend when he and Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s campaign announced an informal alliance where Kasich (who is a distant third in delegates) agreed he wouldn’t campaign in IN while Cruz ceded New Mexico and OR to Kasich.
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The editorial board of Indiana’s largest newspaper on Thursday praised John Kasich ahead of next week’s primary in a bid to stop Donald Trump – despite a deal for the OH governor to cede the state to Texas Sen.
Former HP chief executive Carly Fiorina, whom Cruz has tapped as his running mate, will speak to the convention Saturday night. The 30-second spots are set to run in IN, whose primary Tuesday is becoming make-or-break for Cruz. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks during a rally at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., Wednesday, April 27, 2016.
In truth, the only way either man could become the nominee is at a contested convention. In the primary, Donald Trump’s vulnerability is likability and electability.
But Cruz’s future does not look promising after being mathematically eliminated from achieving the delegates needed to win the GOP presidential nomination outright.
What’s less clear is what the 19 delegates will do if Trump doesn’t win the first ballot of the OH convention.
Trump leads in IN – they vote Tuesday.
On Thursday afternoon, the campaign and a pro-Cruz super PAC unveiled TV ads featuring Fiorina, who Cruz named a day earlier as his vice presidential candidate.
Fiorina argued that “the majority of Republicans actually don’t want Donald Trump as their nominee”. The nomination would be decided on the convention floor, where Cruz’s superior inside game would win the day.
“Trump can not and will not carry Ohio”, said an Ohio Republican. Barbara Boxer in the general election. CARLY for America went far beyond, serving, in essence, as Fiorina’s actual campaign infrastructure. The state that introduced the world to the Kardashian family is expected to embrace Trump’s reality-television-style campaign, and the NY real estate mogul heads to the state Thursday. That “collusion”, as Trump calls it, was foreshadowed by the Stop Trump movement here in California.
“I think he could be great if he’ll get serious about being president, and I think he will”, Hatch said. Perhaps that Trump is right when he claims an effort is underway to “steal” a nomination he is winning fair and square. It also follows a decision by her challenger, Vermont Sen.
Trump delegate candidate Edward Doura, a Woonsocket police lieutenant who won enough votes Tuesday to be one of the NY billionaire’s elected Rhode Island delegates, said he signed a loyalty pledge to back Trump throughout the convention.
“Our job, whether we win or whether we do not win, is to transform not only our country but the Democratic Party, to open the doors of the Democratic Party to working people and young people and senior citizens in a way that does not exist today”, Sanders said. Cruz’s banking that by elevating one of the women most savagely demeaned by Trump, he can literally bring out the very worst of Trump over the next week and dissuade anyone even remotely on the fence.She rose briefly in the polls on the back of strong debate performances during her solo bid for the White House, but struggled to build on her support in a crowded field.
Gov. Mike Pence Friday announced his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, just four days before Indiana’s primary. It is now more akin to a no-fly zone, with Cruz agreeing not to campaign in the Western states and Kasich agreeing not to campaign in Indiana.
Candidates typically wait until they’ve secured their party’s nomination before picking a running mate, in part to avoid appearing to be getting ahead of the will of the voters. Its goal was still to get Fiorina elected president, but on June 18, it got $500,000 – a fifth of what it had raised to that point – from a group that wanted to elect Cruz.
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At last week’s RNC meeting in Hollywood, Florida, many party officials seemed resigned, if not thrilled, with the idea of Trump as the GOP candidate. Bernie Sanders won almost 55 percent of the statewide vote, his only victory over front-runner Hillary Clinton in the five Tuesday primaries.
