In elevating Manafort, Trump said he would add more staff before the convention in an expansion of his campaign team beyond the close-knit group of advisers who have been at his side since he jumped into the presidential race last June.
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In the newly released poll of likely Empire State primary voters, Cruz stands at 22% while Kasich follows with 17%.
Republican Donald Trump has emerged from the Wisconsin primaries as a damaged front-runner following a crushing primary loss to rival Ted Cruz, deepening questions about the billionaire businessman’s presidential qualifications and pushing the Republican Party toward a rare contested convention nomination fight. By age, Cruz leading Trump by 9 points among GOP voters under age 50, and Trump is ahead among seniors aged 65 or older. Kasich is hoping to pick up delegates in congressional districts across the state that will help him in a contested convention.
In Wisconsin on Tuesday, 35 percent of voters listed “shares my values” as the most important candidate quality, compared with 34 percent who said the candidate’s ability to bring change ranked first, 18 percent who cited telling it like it is and 11 percent who thought electability mattered most. Granted, Trump may not arrive at the Republican convention with more than 1,237 delegates – the crucial threshold which guarantees victory.
Trump’s NY roots didn’t account for much, the poll said.
Trump’s lead is narrowing, but he still has the most at 743 delegates, over Cruz with 559 (including Colorado’s 21 delegates) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s 143 delegates. Five percent said they didn’t know or wouldn’t say what they’ll do.
“The people that I was talking about are the liberal New York Democrats”, Cruz told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
As the NY primary approaches, upstate NY is becoming a political battleground.
That means Mr Sanders must still win an unlikely 67% of the remaining delegates and uncommitted super-delegates in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
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“It’s hard. We’ve got to win and we’ve got to win consistently”, Cruz said. We see a different Ted Cruz. Since Cruz is even further away from a majority than Trump is, that defeat also raises the probability that the delegates will have to select a nominee without a clear mandate for anyone. Clinton’s lead is slightly slimmer than earlier polls.
