Conservative leader Bob Fischer gathered more than a dozen activists and Republican lawmakers to discuss how to stop Trump from getting their party’s nomination. The party’s fault lines would split even further.
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As a result of that, Root said America’s “GDP is near zero, 94 million working-age Americans are no longer working, manufacturing is collapsing, more businesses are closing each day than opening… middle-class Americans are being bankrupted by Obamacare. and the national debt is now a staggering $19 trillion”.
After Romney’s loss, the party determined that part of what went wrong was organizational, specifically citing weaknesses in data gathering and direct voter contact.
Well, you won’t like Trump supporters when they are angry and legally indemnified against violence.
Take Massachusetts, which Trump won by a large margin. But campaign aides and allies concede that Kasich can strip votes from Cruz long-term by preventing the anti-Trump block from consolidating – starting with Arizona, where the Cruz campaign believes Kasich’s insistence on staying in will hand Trump a victory there next Tuesday. Some have argued that’s because Democrats wanted to vote against Trump, but that’s pure oatmeal.
– Path clears for Clinton -Clinton, meanwhile, came out of the latest set of primaries with a much clearer path to the Democratic nomination, defeating rival Bernie Sanders in Florida, Ohio, Illinois and North Carolina.
This is going to take a while – for Republicans because of math and for Democrats because of message.
We’re just over halfway finished with delegate allocation, and Trump’s lead over Cruz has expanded to a bit under 300. Yet, the same poll showed Clinton with a commanding 52 percent to 44 percent lead on Trump. In a statement last week about a new group he’s funding to increase voting by Latinos and immigrants in the election, he again mentioned the two candidates by name.
In the primary states March 1, GOP turnout increased by a ridiculous 52 percent.
Snatching the nomination from a candidate who has demonstrated such popular appeal with the party base would be an act of self-sacrifice by the establishment. Many said they disagreed with his protectionist trade policies, his calls for the building of a wall on the Mexican border and his proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Their plan will likely fail if Trump gets to the convention with more than 1,237 pledged delegates from state primaries and caucuses.
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Going into the race, Trump has 460 delegates, Cruz has 370, Rubio has 163 and Kasich has 63. “Leading liberals and progressive groups are turning their gaze away from the Democratic primary and toward efforts to unite the left against Donald Trump, framing him as a unsafe and unprecedented candidate who poses an existential threat to the progressive movement and the nation, “POLITICO notes”. But his campaign, one of the most unconventional and controversial in presidential history, has dominated the Republican Party this year. This is abject nonsense. “I guess we never thought this could happen”, a grinning Trump declared from his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Fla. I didn’t learn about the Republican Party from watching MSNBC; the good people I’ve met over the years have strong feelings about limiting government and expanding freedom – concepts to which Trump is openly hostile. More recent, private polling – including by Trump’s opponents – suggests Trump has pushed ahead in California by a slight margin, even as protests of his candidacy have escalated nationally.
