“We believe we have the votes to run the table”, he said, so even a state party slate made up primarily of Cruz supporters with some Trump backers was a “compromise” from their perspective”. I think it would be – I think you’d have riots.
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Also on “Fox News Sunday”, Cruz took a shot at Trump, highlighting the endorsement the mogul got from Mike Tyson – the boxer who spent three years in prison in IN after a rape conviction.
“His idea that he has a “secret plan” that he’s going to get rid of ISIS that he’s not going to tell anybody, I found it disturbing”, Clinton said.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Trump concentrated on attacking Clinton, doubling down on his much-criticised statement that the Democratic front runner’s only appeal to voters is the “woman’s card”.
If Trump falls short before the convention, Cruz hopes to snatch the nomination on a second ballot when most delegates become free to vote for whomever they choose. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 68, leads U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, 74, of Vermont in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton mingled with voters at a pancake house in IN, where she leads Sanders by 4 points.
At a rally in La Porte on Sunday, Cruz was interrupted by an unruly young audience member in a scene reminiscent of confrontations that have become commonplace at Trump events.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“We are heading to a contested convention”, he said. There’s 57 delegates of up for grabs in Indiana. Currently, Clinton has 2,176, including 510 superdelegates, while Sanders has 1,400, including 41 superdelegates, according to a CNN tally. “Nobody is getting 1,237”, Cruz said on a Philadelphia radio program.
However, Trump is on track to win 1,237 if he wins IN, and a New York Times analyst said that it’s possible for Trump to cross the finishing line even without winning Indiana.
“Donald and Hillary are really flip sides of the same coin”, he added. “We’ll have that teed up”, Trump said.
Cruz evaded questions about whether he would bow out of the Republican contest if he loses in Indiana.
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Asked whether the United States should return to working with “strongmen” leaders like the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Trump said: “Isn’t it too bad that we knocked him out in the first place?”
