“You know, I’m representing many, many millions of people”. He continued: “If you disenfranchise those people and say, ‘I’m sorry, you’re 100 votes short, ‘ even though the next one is 500 votes short, I think you would see problems like you’ve never seen before”.
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“I’m not going to support Trump, period”, Bush said. “If anybody asks me, that’s what I want to see happen”. Mr Rubio dropped out of the race after losing to Mr Trump in his home state of Florida. As long as Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Cruz are able to win even just a few states among them, it would likely prevent Trump from clinching the nomination. He won 36 percent of the vote in OH, 39 percent in IL, 40 percent in North Carolina, 41 percent in Missouri and 46 percent in Florida.
Clovis said that if he’s chosen as a delegate for Iowa voters at the convention, he would follow “the will of the people”. This opens the possibility of a contested convention, which could, after several ballots, give the nod to someone else.
If Kasich truly wanted to stop Trump, he should stop campaigning in some states to allow Cruz to win and pick up the delegates in those states, Wang said.
An emboldened Trump warned that if the party tried to block him, “You’d have riots”.
Ted Cruz has claimed he is the only remaining Republican that can beat his rival Donald Trump, who has enjoyed a sweeping victory in at least three out of five states.
“I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen”. Ben Sasse’s name was mentioned during the meeting as a potential third-party candidate conservatives could encourage to run if Trump becomes the nominee. Delegates from every state for both parties would gather and debate which candidate their party should nominate.
Clinton’s head of communications Jennifer Palmieri said it was unlikely that Sanders could overcome their delegate lead.
Fox News has since canceled the debate, but Cruz’s campaign said in a statement Wednesday that Cruz will use his time at AIPAC’s conference to “highlight Trump’s positions – or lack thereof – in front of the thousands of AIPAC members in attendance”.
Kasich has been cautious about criticizing Trump, arguing that attacking the NY billionaire is not a good way to win over his supporters. But to do so, Trump would need to win 54 percent of the remaining delegates – so far, he has won 47 percent. If none of the candidates reach the required number of 1,237 delegates, the party could call for a contested or brokered convention this July. I understand that Cruz – the logical choice, since he has actually beaten Trump multiple times in primaries and caucuses – is widely disliked and nearly certainly too conservative to win the general election.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of California, which has 172 delegates at stake (more than Florida and OH combined).
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