Being the front-runner, Trump said, he believes he deserves the nomination even if he falls slightly short of the majority.
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It’s not the primary polls, but rather those looking ahead to November’s main event that concernm Republican strategists. “This candidate has not given speeches behind closed doors on Wall Street for $225,000 a speech”.
He campaigned on Sunday in Maryland, which will vote on Tuesday along with Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Mrs Clinton eyed victories in four or five of Tuesday’s contests, which would all but cripple Mr Sanders’ White House bid.
Kasich was scheduled to campaign in IN on Tuesday, with a town hall at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds in Noblesville and an election night party in Indianapolis. She declined to attack her Democratic rival by name in the morning appearance and a subsequent stop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, focusing on the GOP candidates.
The results mirror a Public Policy poll released Monday, which showed Clinton leading Sanders 51-41 percent; Trump led Cruz 51-25, with 22 percent for Kasich.
Kasich’s closest allies in OH already are calling delegates to persuade them to vote for the OH governor once their state rules free them to vote their consciences.
“Cruz has done very poorly and after his NY performance, which was a total disaster, he is in free fall and as everyone has seen, he does not react well under pressure”, Trump charged. However, she has an edge in so-called “super delegates”, bumping her count to 1,948, over Sanders’ 1,238.To receive the Democratic Party nomination a candidate must win 2,383 delegates. “I only care about the first”, Trump said. If an attempt is made to usurp Trump on a second or third ballot, his supporters will rightly see it as contrived and a cause for revolt.
Kasich says of IN voters, “I’ve never told them not to vote for me”. “GOP establishment leaders worry about Trump’s bluster, his xenophobic comments and his all-around unorthodox brand of politics”.
Cruz says he and Donald Trump are “neck-and-neck” in IN though recent polls suggest Trump has the lead. “He’s bribing people, essentially, to vote”.”We’re facing a choice”.
“Do we want a candidate whose only approach to the problems in America is to yell and scream and curse and insult anyone standing near him?” “I think this has been one of the most interesting aspects of the last month, that Cruz has faded and I think it’s going to be very hard for him to make the case that he is going to be the nominee of the party”.
“They had boats and yachts waiting to take delegates around”, Trump said at a rowdy rally in Hagerstown, Maryland, speaking of the Republican National Committee’s spring meeting this past week with delegates gathered at a Florida resort.
“We were evolving the campaign, not the candidate, and the settings were going to start changing”, he told Fox.
Meanwhile, both parties acknowledge deep intra-party divisions as the general election season approaches.
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Trump’s incendiary campaign – he has called some Mexicans “rapists”, vowed to build a wall on the southern U.S. border and wants to bar Muslims from entering the country – has infuriated the Republican establishment.
