The real estate magnate has lost the battle for delegates in some states where he won the popular vote.
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She prevailed in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and DE, while Sanders won Rhode Island. Bernie Sanders’ Democratic primary attacks against Hillary Clinton against her again in a potential general election matchup this November. I would vote for Trump as a distant second. In the Republican field, Trump won all contests – securing at least 105 delegates.
The pamphlet has now been sent to every household in the state but is separate from the official ballot voters will use on election day, where Kasich’s name is listed as a candidate.
“With your help we’re going to come back to Philadelphia with the most votes and the most pledged delegates”, she said to cheers.
Even their combined delegate count only gets them over the halfway mark for a nomination, and still falls short of Trump’s current total, the report noted.
IN is key for Cruz because it has many voters who identify as very conservative or evangelical, two groups with whom he has done well elsewhere.
Both groups worked to hand Trump a defeat at the hands of Cruz earlier this month in Wisconsin.
As Donald Trump inches closer to becoming the Republican party’s nominee, he’s toned down the offensive off-the-cuff remarks to appear more presidential. “She has 90 percent of the delegates she needs for the nomination and will get them very soon”. If she were a man, she’d get five per cent.
We believe that Hillary Clinton is extraordinarily qualified and will make a great president.
And he took his criticism of Clinton up to a new level, too, telling the crowd that she “only thing she’s got going is the women’s card”.
Speaking to her own supporters in Philadelphia, she said: “Whether you support Senator Sanders or you support me, there’s lots more that unites us than divides us”. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, while Clinton won in four of the five contests, losing to Sen.
Pennsylvania will send 71 delegates to Cleveland this summer, but only 17 are awarded to the statewide victor.
Wednesday morning saw the release of a new TV ad in OR, touting that rival “Ted Cruz pulled out of Oregon” and that Kasich “is the only one that can stop Trump and defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall”.
Barring a dramatic turn of events, Clinton has now cleared the way to become the Democratic nominee in the November election, which would make her the first woman in United States history to reach that milestone.
Similarly, on the Democratic side, the AP shows Clinton with 1,618 pledged delegates to 1,267 for Bernie Sanders.
Despite the layoffs, Sanders says he still plans to keep up his campaign through the Democratic convention in July.
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The candidates now are campaigning in the state of Indiana. Both campaigns said Cruz will focus his resources on winning enough delegates in IN, while Kasich will focus his efforts on western states, including OR and New Mexico. “That’s why we are in this race until the last vote is cast”, he said in his statement.
