The new YouGov/CBS poll for California was conducted among 2,403 registered voters between April 13 – April 15, and has a 2.7 precent margin of error.
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Trump has been critical of the process, again on Saturday calling it “rigged” while speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York. “I hope it doesn’t involve violence, and I’m not suggesting that. I think it’s good enough for whoever our nominee is going to be”.
Trump, speaking ahead of the vote on Fox News, blasted “the rigged and boss controlled” Republican primaries that he says are stacked against him.
Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus said the nominee should be the candidate with a majority, not a plurality.
Trump was not present at the convention, because he was in NY campaigning for its primary on Tuesday.
The rules governing that process – as well as each state’s procedures for selecting and awarding delegates – were finalized last October.
Cuccinelli II, a surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said Mr. Trump can not change the rules of the game just because he is winning the delegate race and compared the reality TV star’s campaign to a football team that wants a touchdown for making it to the 20 yard line. He previewed the assault on Friday with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
“Trump is going to do very well” in the Garden State, Manafort said.
“What we’re talking about is a fractured party”, he added.
In response to the oft-repeated accusation that the Trump campaign is somehow unaware of the “rules”, Trump senior adviser spoke to the campaign’s pragmatic strategy when it comes to procedures like this, “We know how to read”. That’s not what we’re about. “We’re supposed to be bringing this party together”. They hope to earn the state more influence on the national stage as the three remaining presidential candidates work to pull in delegates.
Trump has about 43 percent support in Pennsylvania, with Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich slipping the rest of the votes, according to RealClearPolitics.
New Jersey, South Dakota and Montana are winner-take-all, with a total of 107 delegates. Indeed, Trump didn’t put much effort into winning the state. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walked away with all 34 delegates. The breaking point came when Cruz got all of Colorado’s delegates, because his campaign understood and managed the weirdly intricate system of district-level conventions the state party had instituted. The nominee must secure a majority – 1,237 – of delegates at the Republican convention. Trump also opted not to actively campaign in Wyoming or Colorado, where the frontrunner did similarly poorly at a state convention last week. “Act like you’re a professional, be a pro”.
“I find it to be rhetoric and hyperbole”.
He acknowledged, however, that he had contacted the rules committee before a meeting next week to discourage amending the process. It’s because politics is complicated.
Party leaders in Wyoming however said that the rules were set long ago.
“It’s up to the delegates at the convention”.
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“Recommendations would just confuse people”.
