Sanders said candidly on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that his campaign is “handicapped” since the states in play Tuesday don’t allow independents to participate, but added that “we are going to fight through California and then we’ll see what happens”. But Trump says he’s actually OK with the decision because it demonstrates his rivals’ weakness.
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These 54 delegates will go to the convention as free agents, free to support the candidate of their choice.
“I’ve never told them not to vote for me”, Kasich told reporters at a Philadelphia diner, when asked about his IN supporters.
Cruz, a US senator from Texas, and Kasich, Ohio’s governor, hope their efforts will weaken Trump in those states and keep him from securing the 1,237 delegates he needs to claim the nomination before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July.
Mr Kasich, the governor of OH, said: “I’m not desperate”.
Kasich agrees to bow out of IN to “give the Cruz campaign a clear path”.
Here’s how the delegates from Tuesday night will be allocated: DE (with 16 delegates) a winner-take-all state. He has accused the Republican Party of treating him unfairly, and said Monday the system is “rigged”.
It’s part of a new strategy to deny Republican front-runner Donald Trump enough delegates to win the GOP nomination outright.
Podesta was reacting to Trump’s apparent use of a fake Indian accent to mock a call centre representative in India during a campaign rally in Delaware. “That choice is important for the country”.
Trump was set to campaign in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania on Monday, two of the five states hosting primary contests on Tuesday. Trump, speaking at Pennsylvania’s West Chester University, near Philadelphia, dismissed the deal as a sign of desperation and predicted he still would win the nomination on the convention’s first ballot.
“It is big news today that John Kasich has chose to pull out of IN to give us a head to head contest with Donald Trump”, he said.
Kasich agreed to stay out of IN and Cruz will stay out of New Mexico and Oregon.
The agreement between the Cruz and Kasich campaigns is that Kasich won’t spend time or money in IN, while Cruz will back off in New Mexico and Oregon. I don’t have Daddy Warbucks behind me and I have to be careful spending my resources. All states will close their polls at 8:00 pm, and all are on East Coast time.
Campaign manager Jeff Roe says on Twitter that Cruz’s team is going through the “normal processes” for picking a running mate.
But Trump, who has 845 delegates so far, needs 392 more to hit the magic number and put to rest fears of convention chaos this summer.
Trump was also the target on the Democratic side as Hillary Clinton eyed Tuesday primary victories she hoped would all but seal her victory over Vermont Sen.
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Both campaigns encouraged allied super PACs and other outside groups to “honor the commitments”.
