Trump also came out against the federal government’s plan to replace President Andrew Jackson with the civil-rights figure Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. First, he denounced former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as “low-energy”, and then he branded Florida Sen. While candidates in both parties fanned out across the country before important primary contests in the Northeast, Hollywood’s Diplomat Resort & Spa was transformed into a palm-treed political battleground.
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But outside, the NY crowd was tough.
“When he’s out on the stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that objective”, Manafort said in a private briefing.
“In 2008, you knew it was different – the ground was moving underneath you”, he said.
The Associated Press obtained a recording of the closed-door exchange.
He needs all the money he can get.
Trump says GOP leaders are trying to steal what he is already calling his nomination.
There is no legal or constitutional requirement that a leader on the first ballot must be the nominee on a second ballot, and any freed-up delegate who would vote on a second ballot for a candidate he or she detests exclusively on the basis of such a mistaken notion would not be advancing the cause of democracy.
“Now let me tell you what Donald and the media want to convince everyone: That Pennsylvania is a suburb of Manhattan”, Cruz said Wednesday in Hershey.
There was evidence of drama on the Democratic side as well.
This comes as the Bernie Sanders campaign accuses rival Hillary Clinton and the DNC of violating campaign finance laws.
“While Donald Trump’s GOP detractors may not like what the businessman’s front-runner status means for their party, just over half of Republicans view him favorably, and many of these supporters may be troubled by speculation that party insiders are conspiring to deny Trump the nomination”. “Essentially what they’re saying is they can buy the election”, Trump said.
But nothing could do more to quell growing doubts about Trump’s viability than seizing a big chunk of NY delegates.
From New York, the campaign heads to a batch of contests next week that includes Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island as well as Maryland.
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Speaking at a town-hall event on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday, Trump said North Carolina’s bathroom law has caused unnecessary strife and transgender people should be able to choose which bathroom to use. Trump is seen by some as a threat to the GOP’s very existence. “People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate”. She considers Trump “dangerous” and decided against Cruz.
