“When he’s out on the stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that goal”, Paul Manafort, who is leading Trump’s primary election strategy, told Republican National Committee members in a private briefing late Thursday. “You’re going to pay a damn tax when you leave this country”, Trump said with regard to Carrier.
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“I think that’s Donald Trump being Donald Trump”.
After a fierce battle to stay on top in recent weeks, both U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton are back on track to grab their parties’ nomination after big wins in NY primary Tuesday.
The big city loves Hillary Clinton more than ever, but the rest of NY isn’t quite as keen on her as in the past. Such a scenario most likely favors Sen.
RNC member and former Jeb Bush supporter Ron Kaufman, described by Stokols as being close to Mitt Romney, signaled the new thinking by party regulars that it would be a mistake to deny Trump the nomination if he has the vast majority of delegates.
Former presidential candidate Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who has endorsed Trump, also addressed the group.
IN is a fiscally and socially conservative state with high church attendance, and Cruz has shown he’s the best candidate to attract religious and social conservatives, Downs said. Both face daunting delegate math that will make it hard for them to prevail. Most waited standing for hours, as the few sections of metal bleachers filled up quickly. Elizabeth Dostin, of Plainfield, explained why the real estate mogul has her vote.
For the past year, Trump has been unwieldy, undisciplined, and inconsistent.
“We don’t have much of a race anymore”, Trump boomed. I’ll be more effective and more disciplined. One protester engaged in a heated exchange with a security guard before being escorted out directly in front of the press area. Their messages resembled that of the Trump team: Each said he is the person who can win in November.
Another weakness is the controversy around one Trump supporter who sucker punched a protester at a Trump rally. A line of police officers stood nearby and sometimes in between the two sides as they verbally sparred.
Cheers and applause and Trump signs and camera phones rose up from the crowd of thousands as the finale arrived.
Bernie Sanders has vowed not to give up on the race yet.
There was evidence of a rift on the Democratic side as well.
There have been no public polls in IN, but Politico on Thursday reported the results of two private surveys showing Trump and Cruz essentially tied and another with Trump slightly ahead.
Sanders touched on the major themes of his campaign – income inequality, Wall Street corruption, and fixing what he says is the nation’s broken economy.
Exit quotation from Ben Shapiro, summing up last night’s outcome for anti-Trumpers everywhere: “The Smartest, Toughest People In The World™ voted overwhelmingly for a loudmouth braggart liar con man who whines about how mean Ted Cruz is to New Yorkers for suggesting they are leftists who vote for loudmouth braggart liar con men”. “They are awful. These are not stupid people, but they’re very dishonest people”.
Mr. Sanders was the first of at least three of the five remaining presidential candidates due in Lackawanna County before the primary election Tuesday. He promised those in attendance that if elected he would “terminate Obamacare”, and then ended his speech with “we’re going to win, win, win”.
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Sanders’s grumbling on TV Sunday that Independents and other non-Democrats (including Republicans who re-register the day of the primary) are not allowed to vote in New York and other state primaries is even louder now after his substantial loss to Clinton in the New York Democratic primaryTuesday, which was limited to registered Democrats.
