Yet Cruz’s campaign has repeatedly shown superior organisation and understanding when it comes to the arcane delegate-selection process and his quest to secure people loyal to him at a possible contested convention.
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“We don’t want you”, the man said to Cruz.
State party chairman Jim Brulte said Ms Fiorina was the first presidential candidate to respond to his invitation to appear at the state party convention that he issued to the entire presidential field in January, when she was still a contender for the top office.
With Trump at almost 1,000 national delegates out of 1,237 he needs to win the presidential nomination outright after recent sweeps of five eastern states, even Cruz’s Arizona backers believe Saturday’s effort is likely to be for naught.
“Indiana is an important state”, Cruz said yesterday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’.
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During an interview with WTMJ in Milwaukee, Cruz said of John Kasich, “I think any candidate that doesn’t have a path to winning, that’s the time you should suspend your campaign”. He cited several polls showing him doing better than Clinton in a hypothetical head-to-head contest against Trump. And the Trump campaign is ecstatic.
Trump leads Clinton, 48% to 41%, but only leads Sanders 47% to 46%.
The Cruz slate won virtually all of the 28 at-large national delegates and roughly split the 27 delegates selected by congressional district. Marco Rubio of Florida, who has since dropped out of the race. Cruz is trying anything that he can think of to set up a brokered convention. No one’s getting to 1,237. This was seen as an attempt for Cruz and Kasich to form an “alliance” to stop Trump from winning these states, though Cruz has downplayed that idea.
Cruz called Trump “the essence of the Washington insider”. Finally, Cruz has a total of four delegates that will vote for him in the first round; two of them were also chosen Saturday.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, the Republican frontrunner concentrated on attacking Clinton, doubling down on his much-criticized statement that the likely Democratic nominee’s only appeal to voters is the “woman’s card”. “Well…well…actually”, Cruz said in his stuttering response, “With…with…all due respect”, Cruz got out, before complaining that the media was giving “free advertising” to Trump”.
In Massachusetts, at least 23 of the 27 delegates picked Saturday were supported by the Trump campaign, the Boston Globe reported.
After Trump’s dominant wins this week he has 996 delegates, according to an AP tally. “This was a very pronounced victory for the Cruz-Kasich slates”.
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However, a close outcome on Tuesday should do little to change as she holds 2,165 delegates lead over Sander’s 1,357.
