Donald Trump, with his overwhelming victory in IN on Tuesday, put himself in prime position to clinch the Republican presidential nomination in coming weeks, and spelled the end of Ted Cruz’s campaign.
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Trump is leading in IN primary polls as Cruz battles for the toughest political battle of his life and hope to break the momentum of Trump.
IN voters are casting their ballots in key U.S. presidential primaries, with Mr Trump hoping to knock out his rivals and Hillary Clinton seeking to further cement her status as the Democrats’ presumptive pick.
But Lewandowski – echoing his candidate’s comments that the nomination fight will be “over” if he wins IN – insisted Tuesday’s vote would be the inflection point of the campaign. Ted Cruz or Ohio Gov. John Kasich becoming president.
A showdown between Clinton and Trump would pit one of Democrats’ most popular and highly regarded figures against a first-time candidate who is deeply divisive within his own party.
The U.S. Senator from Texas, Cruz said he plans to stay in the race as long as there is still a viable path to the GOP nomination. These included calling him a narcissist, a pathological liar, and utterly amoral, among other qualities. But his victory in IN – where he picked up at least 45 of the state’s 57 delegates – made it all but impossible for Cruz to block him from doing so. To win the nomination, Trump only has to win approximately 56 percent of the remaining delegates available. No, really. He brought up a questionable National Enquirer story claiming Rafael Cruz appeared in a photo with Oswald shortly before the murder. Bernie Sanders. But almost 6 in 10 Republicans say they think their party has been divided by the battle being fought by billionaire Donald Trump, Texas Sen. “If he can’t beat Trump in IN, it will doom his candidacy”, West said.
Trump responded by saying Cruz “does not have the temperament to be president of the United States”.
Trump needs to win just 43 percent of the remaining delegates to capture the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7. “I mean the whole thing is ridiculous”, Trump said in an interview on “Fox and Friends”.
“I am focused on moving into the general election”, she said in West Virginia.
Neither Clinton nor Sanders planned to spend Tuesday in Indiana. Trump has won six straight primaries, and while Cruz was hoping to stop Trump in IN – in fact, Cruz has said the Hoosier state will decide “which path we should go down” – things are not looking great.
Cruz faces a high-stakes test of his presidential campaign in the primary, one of the last opportunities for the Texas senator to halt Trump’s stunning march toward the GOP nomination.
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Ted Cruz is scrambling.
