The survey also asked likely Republican voters for their second choices, and when the responses were recalculated to exclude Rubio, Trump maintained his 38 percent support, while Cruz’s support increased to 27 percent.
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1988: The previous year when a Republican presidential candidate carried California in a general election.
Clinton challenger Bernie Sanders snatched victories in Utah and Idaho.
And former Florida governor Mr Bush gave Mr Cruz his endorsement – a step perhaps created to hurt Mr Trump more than help the billionaire businessman’s rival. He’s showing surprising strength in the Republican primaries. Though some establishment figures have condemned Mr. Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric, Ed Cox, the chairman of the New York State Republican Party, has spoken warmly about his candidacy.
“For the sake of our party and country, we must move to overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena”, said Mr Bush, who was knocked out of the 2016 contest last month. “But this involves Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz’s delegates coming to the same conclusion and Donald Trump’s delegates coming to the same conclusion”.
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Mr. Trump was at 33 percent among Republican voters, Mr. Kasich was at 30 percent and Sen.
Mr. Kasich announced his endorsement by Robert “Bud” McFarlane, who was national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan. Trump won 58 delegates in the winner-take-all Arizona primary, while Cruz won all 40 delegates from the Utah caucuses.
The next Republican contest takes place in North Dakota, as a caucus, on April 1. John Kasich beats Clinton but in the theoretical match-up but the race could easily go either way once the 11% of respondents who said they are “not sure” make a decision. “The last thing we need is leaders who incite more fear”. If Trump fails to collect the 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination outright, he may actually be the least-divisive option for the party. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John Kasich of OH, are fighting to deny him enough delegates to win. But Murphy said Cruz would also have difficulty beating Clinton.
Acknowledging the revolt among grass-roots conservatives, Murphy said Trump won’t unify the fractured GOP.
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Clinton’s campaign will be in a stronger position to attack the eventual GOP nominee once the internal battle within the Democratic Party is over, and she gains the support of the folks now supporting Sanders.
