The coordinating between Cruz and Kasich applies only to the three upcoming states, they said.
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Trump is the only Republican candidate who can clinch the GOP presidential nomination before his party’s national convention. “I would have voted for Cruz, but if my vote doesn’t count, what’s the objective?”
The arrangement does not address the five Northeastern states set to vote Tuesday, where Trump is expected to add to his already overwhelming delegate lead. Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe said Trump, who hasoffended women, Hispanics andother groupswith controversial statements, would lose a general election contest against the eventual Democratic nominee in the November 8 election.
Trump immediately fired back, slamming his Republican rivals in a series of tweets and releasing a lengthy statement calling the alliance a “horrible act of desperation”.
Tim Clark, Trump’s state director, said, “We feel very strongly that these are our people”.
The fact that in a recent Associated Press-GfK poll 69 percent of voters viewed Trump unfavorably as did 46 percent of Republicans show he has a long way to go in convincing even his own party that all can be forgiven. That process should be much easier for Trump to grasp than in other states, where he has been outmaneuvered by the more organized Cruz in securing unbound delegates.
Kasich’s campaign on Sunday night canceled a town hall and gathering in Indianapolis scheduled to watch the results of Tuesday’s primaries.
Trump recently won zero delegates at the Colorado Republican primary. “We didn’t say, ‘Oh he’s nearly there, let’s give it to him.’ He had to get a majority”, he said.
The presidential contenders are ramping up their IN operations IN the last full week of campaigning ahead of the state’s May 3 primary election.
Asked what IN voters should do next week, the OH governor just 13 hours after the arrangement was announced urged them to vote for him.
Trump concluded, “Because of me, everyone now sees that the Republican primary system is totally rigged…”
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Speaking to reporters after an event in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Friday, Cruz said Trump’s advisers had “gone down and told Republican Party bosses that everything Donald has said on the campaign is just to a show, he doesn’t believe any of it”.
