In his only public outing between his Wednesday and Sunday rallies in New York, Trump, 69, got into his motorcade and went to the World Trade Center, where he visited the 9/11 museum.Mr Cruz has 520 Republican delegates to 743 for Mr Trump.
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Cruz taunted Trump for complaining, as he did recently on Twitter, that it is a “shame that the person who will have by far the most delegates and many millions more votes than anyone else, me, still must fight”. On the left they’ll have Hillary Clinton making her bid to get back into the White House, which surely must hold few pleasant memories for her. Yet he has won about 37 percent of all votes in the primaries, according to the NBC analysis, meaning Trump’s delegate support is greater than his actual support from voters. His national spokesman, Ron Nehring, is former chairman of the California Republican Party, and the campaign used Cruz’s appearance in the state on Monday to announce the endorsements of two more state lawmakers, Assemblymen Don Wagner, R-Irvine, and Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach.
As Trump voices complaints with the GOP delegate selection process, Ted Cruz’s campaign is demonstrating its organizational strength.
A candidate’s campaign committee can also pay for delegate expenses. The Colorado Republican Party chose not to have a vote, but to choose delegates through local conventions, which would allow them to be “unbound”.
Savage said the “rigged Republican, back-room deal” was “not befitting a free republic” and “something you would expect of Uruguay in the 1940s”.
We might not. Some of the “unbound” delegates declare their preference before being picked for the convention, so they are publicly committed.
There are ninety-five total Republican delegates up for grabs in NY; eighty-one are divided evenly among the state’s twenty-seven congressional districts. Eric Trump, 32, and Ivanka Trump, 34, missed the deadline for registering as Republicans to vote in next week’s NY primary. “And I think this is going to be a big consideration at the convention”. “They always say he’s got no chance”.
The candidates “will be in a bidding war for delegates”, said Brett Kappel, a veteran campaign-finance lawyer who has represented Democrats and Republicans. Holding Trump below 50 percent in a dozen districts, would make it very hard for Trump to amass the delegates he needs to secure the nomination on the first ballot.
“Donald doesn’t handle losing well, and for the past three weeks Donald has been losing over and over and over again”, Cruz said in an interview shortly before he held a standing-room-only event in Irvine.
Kasich said he was confident he would prevail in a contested convention in July because he’s the only candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee.
CHUCK TODD: What is fair game to win a delegate? This has become all the more apparent ever since Marco Rubio suspended his presidential bid.
Four years ago, Rick Santorum, who’d emerged as Mitt Romney’s main rival, dropped out in April, even though Romney hadn’t yet won enough delegates to clinch the nomination. They are the ones who selected Obama.
“Do I have relationships that go back into the system? Yes”.
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Katrina Pierson, Donald Trump’s spokesperson, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday that she would not retract her statement about Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s campaign using “gestapo tactics” to force the election.
