He is closing in on the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination before the party’s July convention. That means voters have a bit of homework to do before election day. What is meaningful, however, is whom primary voters will select to send to Cleveland as the 54 uncommitted delegates. Ted Cruz’s arrival. They were also doing math.
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As for Ted Cruz, he finished third behind Trump and Ohio Governor John Kasich, and he isn’t expected to do well in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states who have primaries next week.
And Donald Trump is pushing the competition to drop out. The presidential campaigns can review and approve the delegates assigned to them, reducing the chances of double agents as seen on the GOP side. Her campaign is battling Vermont Sen. But the delegates can change their support after the first vote, drawing attention on the individual candidates.
“He has a record of cutting through bureaucratic dysfunction and his message to “Make America Great Again” is exactly what we need after two failed terms of President Obama”, Cox said.
White House presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders acknowledged Thursday that he has “a hard path” to the Democratic nomination and that it could be difficult to overtake Hillary Clinton by convincing the party’s superdelegates to switch allegiances.
“I’m not going to respond to what he said about me”, the former secretary of state told her supporters at a restaurant in Pennsylvania, where both the Democratic and Republican primaries are scheduled for April 26.
The Trump campaign has said it is concerned that some openly anti-Trump party members were chosen as delegates to represent IN at the Republican convention even before the voting on May 3.
According to recent polling, Lewandowski noted that Trump is ahead of his competitors by roughly 20 points in CT and ahead 18 points in Pennsylvania. Hold them accountable for everything Cruz and Trump say from now until November.
Some delegate candidates say they feel bound, at least on the first convention ballot, to vote for whichever presidential candidate wins their congressional district.
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Eleven more delegates and alternate delegates are chosen later this spring, at the Maryland GOP spring convention in May. “(Sanders) said she suffers from bad judgement and she said – now I don’t know, I think she’s qualified, I guess. The only fact that I think remains uncertain is if we continue to be running significantly stronger than she is against Donald Trump or whoever the republican nominee will be, I think that’s a factor.
