Cruz won 104 of his home state’s 155 GOP delegates in the March 1 primary, but his supporters should so dominate the delegation of Texans attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July that all would likely back him if a multi-round floor fight breaks out. If Trump can win big in IN, expect any Republican party actors who would ever consider supporting him to go ahead and accept him as the nominee.
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The deal called for Kasich’s campaign to pull out of IN, IN hopes that his absence would give Cruz the boost he needed to pick up the crucial win.
That was before Trump exceeded Kornacki’s delegate projections in NY, in the five Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states that voted Tuesday, and with “unbound” – essentially free agent – delegates from Pennsylvania that have pledged to support Trump on the convention’s first ballot.
The senator added that Pence was “an incredible leader of the state of IN”. Even rival John Kasich has agreed to focus on other states to give Cruz a clear path in Indiana. “I’m not against anybody, but I will be voting for Ted Cruz in the Republican primary”.
But less than a week after the deal was announced by both campaigns Sunday, the agreement is on the verge of collapse.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz will be in Jeffersonville later today as he continues his push to deprive Donald Trump of the GOP nomination for president.
“I know that firsthand”.
Cruz reminded the crowd of Tyson’s 1992 conviction for raping a beauty pageant contestant in Indiana.
Among 400 likely voters surveyed, Cruz won out, getting almost 45 percent, compared to Donald Trump’s 29 percent. A strong showing by Trump in California could shut the door on the hopes of those who don’t want Trump to be the nominee. “Rapists are not tough guys”. IN is a winner-take-all state that has 57 delegates up for grabs.
(AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
Pence had been under enormous pressure from pro- and anti-Trump factions.
While campaigning, Cruz asked an aide to measure the “basketball rim” in the court – a reference to the movie – and then later said “basketball ring”.
Only 70 percent of Trump’s backers said the same. But he did endorse Cruz. Pence’s fellow conservative governors, like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, were urging him to do the right thing.
“Every day he sits on the sidelines is another day in which he could have made a difference”, Republican columnist Erick Erickson wrote Thursday on the website The Resurgent. After a string of recent primary wins she is now 90 percent of the way to the delegate number needed to claim nomination.
Trump’s victories came in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. They’ll probably make Gov. Greg Abbott, a Cruz supporter, convention delegation chairman.
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Trump has a slim lead in current polling averages in Indiana.
