The former secretary of state made appearances with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio that emphasized her political connections and experience, while a Sanders rally in Washington Square Park next week has huge support among younger voters interested in the grass roots strategy.
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In a hypothetical general election match-up, Mrs. Clinton had 35-point, 63 percent to 28 percent lead, over Mr. Trump.
If Trump loses the nomination, Thompson said he would quit the party. Ted Cruz trails behind at 22 percent of support.
The two parties have different and complicated mathematical ways of allocating delegates in the primary. The regional differences are significant because California Republicans award almost all of their 172 delegates by congressional district, three delegates each to the victor of each district. “I am organizing these responsibilities under someone who has done this job successfully in many campaigns”, Trump said in a statement, pointing to Manafort’s involvement in managing convention activities for Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole’s presidential campaigns.
Both the Clinton and Trump campaigns may draw lessons from the state’s 2014 gubernatorial race. In fact, in a recent survey, 31% of the women asked said they would prefer Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
Donna Bravo, a Republican poll respondent from Sacramento, said she has never voted before but that “this year, it was kind of an eye-opener”. It also highlights Trump’s harsh rhetoric about some Mexicans coming to the United States and his call for blocking Muslims from the US because of terror threats. Republican political consultant Gerry O’Brien also notes this is the home turf of Carl Paladino, a Tea Party-backed businessman who upset the establishment Republican candidate in the 2010 gubernatorial primary but then lost in a landslide to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
“We’re preparing for everything”, Brookover said.
Hillary Clinton is stepping up her criticism of Donald Trump, arguing in a new campaign ad that she’s the candidate “tough enough to stop Trump”.
Even in the South, a region where Trump has won GOP primaries decisively, close to 70 percent view him unfavorably.
Clinton is not held in very high regard among the general public.
Lawrence Dinwiddie, a 53-year-old Republican from Modesto, said that if the election were tomorrow, he probably would vote for Trump.
“You have to vote for somebody, and I don’t want to vote for no Democrat”, Dinwiddie said. Sixty-eight percent of them have a favorable view.
Dinwiddie is not enthusiastic about his choices, but he holds out hope for an open convention, where another candidate could emerge.
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“There’s no reason to expect anything like that”, Cox says, “I certainly try to pay attention to what’s going on around the country when it comes to stuff like that”.
