Democrat Bernie Sanders also scored a sweeping victory in Wisconsin’s primary that gives him a fresh incentive to keep challenging Hillary Clinton. In fact, Sanders has won seven of the last eight Democratic contests, though Clinton has a commanding lead among delegates.
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Mrs Clinton, who represented NY in the Senate from 2001 to 2009, has an 11-point lead over Senator Sanders in her adopted home state. Many analysts predict that the early lead Ms. Clinton has built up over Mr. Sanders will be insurmountable for the Vermont senator, however this latest win will be seen as a big boost and a sign of growing momentum for his campaign ahead of key primaries in Pennsylvania and NY.
The Monmouth University poll showed Trump in a runaway with 52 percent of the New York GOP primary vote, Ohio Gov. John Kasich second with 25 percent and Ted Cruz a distant third with 17 percent.
US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, centre, celebrates with his wife Heidi, right, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, left, during Wisconsin primary night rally at the American Serb Banquet Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 5, 2016.
Sanders still faces a hard task overtaking Clinton as the race moves to NY on April 19 and to five other Eastern states on April 26.
As of now, Trump still leads Cruz in delegates, 743-517.
Cruz also predicted he could earn the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination. One still hopes that Sanders, as Clinton has already promised, will hold to his original position that he will agree to support the nominee of the Democratic Party no matter whom that may be. Sanders is favoured to win Wyoming’s Democratic caucuses on Saturday, but it offers a small delegate prize.
In my lifetime there have been notable convention battles, such as Teddy Kennedy’s failed effort to dump President Carter at the 1980 Democratic convention, Ronald Reagan’s similarly unsuccessful push to deny President Ford the GOP nomination in 1976 and Nelson Rockefeller’s confrontation with Barry Goldwater’s insurgents in 1964.
As for the Sandy Hook comments, Clinton said she was “appalled”.
At the same time, Trump’s team quietly worked to resolve problems with its young delegate outreach operation, a critical tool as the primary campaign speeds toward the possibility of a contest convention.
Cruz sits just nine points behind Trump at 30 percent in the Quinnipiac poll.
Fifty-three percent of all Clinton voters, and three of four independents, said they’d pick the former secretary of state because they’d be voting against Trump.
And they must know who those delegate candidates are before going into the polling place, otherwise their delegate votes are a shot in the dark.
The candidate kept to his well-honed talking points – “the wall”, keeping jobs in the United States, “winning again” – but did offer a few nods to his home state crowd, too. Trump loses to both Democrat candidates. After the Wisconsin primaries on Tuesday, Republican voters were asked whom they would vote for in a general election under a variety of scenarios.
That result from Wisconsin is broadly in keeping with other national polling data released on the question of what the party should do if no candidate gets the majority of delegates on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention. Trump will need to capture more than 200 of them to go into the Cleveland convention with close to the number he’ll need to fend off challenges.
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In a recent interview, Cruz expound on his pro-life views and said that pro-abortion Democrats use the issue of contraception to try to attack pro-life Republicans and make them look like extremists.
