Viewed widely as a long-shot candidate from the start, Mr Kasich’s popularity shot up after his strong second-place finish in New Hampshire’s primary in early February. Cruz didn’t mention the now presumptive Republican presidential nominee during his concession speech Tuesday, which came hours after Cruz unloaded on Trump, calling him “utterly amoral”, a “pathological liar” and a “serial philanderer”. He ended his campaign as a clear path emerged for Trump to amass the delegates needed to secure the nomination outright.
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“I think John will be very helpful with Ohio”, Trump said of Kasich and his home state, which will once again be a battleground state in November’s general election, it reported.
“I believe that the people are going to vote for the person”, Trump said, adding “They love their party, but until this year, the party was going in the wrong direction”. But there was no mad rush to support him as is typically the case when a presumptive nominee is crowned.
Expect Trump to fight back hard, as he already proved to do in the successful primary campaign where he beat 16 rivals.
He said the shift in voter preferences, combined with how Trump was able to vanquish his primary opponents, “lends itself to a very successful campaign, in my estimation”.
Neither George W. Bush nor George H.W. Bush plan to endorse Trump. And a spokesman for Bush’s father said simply, “At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics”. Both these men are nearly certainly thinking about giving it another whirl in 2020, after Trump’s inevitable defeat. “I think you go from the Third congressional district up to the Seventh, the Eighth and down to the First – that whole area is ripe for Donald Trump voters”, said Wiley, describing most of the Wisconsin counties that lie outside the Milwaukee and Madison metro areas.
Among Republicans involved in June primary campaigns, calculations of voter turnout based on a contest that would determine whether Trump avoided an open convention were being hastily redone.
In most U.S. elections cycles, party insiders quickly coalesce around candidates once they have effectively sewn up the nomination.
The New York real estate mogul, who just last summer was dismissed by pundits and political prognosticators as a flash in the pan, has steamrolled through several states and galvanized Republican rank-and-file voters like no other GOP candidate in years.
There were already signs Wednesday that Clinton is setting her sights on Trump. “They couldn’t take him on the issues because they basically agreed with them”. He then had a message about Trump’s talk of “bad judgment”. Some even worry that a Democratic landslide could endanger the GOP’s majority in the House of Representatives.
He prevailed over rivals he derided as “grown politicians”, despite making provocative statements along the way that drew sometimes furious criticism from many in the party but fed his anti-establishment appeal.
There will be some conservative and Republican voices who will grudgingly support Mr. Trump.
Party loyalists have been appalled by the bombastic, bullying style of the former reality-television star, his denigrating comments about women and his proposals to build a wall on the border with Mexico and deport 11 million illegal immigrants.
“As I suspend my campaign today, I have renewed faith, deeper faith, that the Lord will show me the way forward and fulfill the objective of my life”, he said. “Do I want to sell a couple of buildings and self-fund?” “They’re not voting for the party”. Although Kasich tried to pitch himself as the best Republican to take on Hillary Clinton, the weight of the anti-Trump faction never got behind him. He put retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson on the committee. But on Wednesday, Haley said she would support the Republican nominee, although she noted she was not interested in the vice presidential spot.
He has said wages are too high.
And with undeniable political skill, Trump – a multi-billionaire with a Boeing equipped with gold seat belts – became an earthy cypher for ignored blue collar Americans who revile conventional politicians as they struggle to get by in a wounded economy.
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Ms. Clinton said she is running her own campaign to become the president of the country and not against Mr. Trump.
