His connections and past experience should prove useful to the Trump campaign, who Politico says hired McGinley to advise the campaign on delegate selection matters and to formulate a strategy to challenge the credentials of delegates at the Republican National Convention this summer in Cleveland, OH. But if Nebraska is like its neighbors Kansas and Iowa, two states Cruz won earlier in the race, Trump can’t count on these delegates.
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Ted Cruz has won all 14 delegates at stake in the western U.S. state of Wyoming, handing rival Donald Trump, who made little effort to win the rural state, another loss in a series of defeats in Western states.
Seven in 10 Republican voters said they cast their vote because they like their candidate, while just 3 in 10 said they voted for a candidate because they didn’t like their other options. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 144. They were cheered on by Sue Everhart, an influential former state GOP chair and Trump backer who was at the meeting.
“Let me tell you, the state of Wyoming right now, the entire country, its eyes are on this state, on the people here”.
Wyoming delegates to the national convention are elected in two phases. He has urged his supporters to protest the results to state officials in that state.
“There’s not going to be a second ballot”, Paul Manafort, Trump’s chief strategist said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”.
Alan Cobb, a senior Trump adviser, said this week that the campaign made a strategic decision not to commit resources to Wyoming. He said he received one call from the Trump campaign, describing it “more as a question about process” than anything else.
Wyoming, the nation’s leading coal-producing state, has seen hundreds of coal industry layoffs in recent months as several of the nation’s largest coal companies have filed for federal bankruptcy protections.
“In all likelihood, we’re going to go to a contested convention”, Cruz told ABC’s “Good Morning America”.
Cruz told the crowd he was “pretty sure, here in Wyoming, y’all define gun control the same way we do in Texas – and that is hitting what you’re aiming at”. He needs to secure more than 60 percent of the outstanding delegates, a FiveThirtyEight analysis indicates.
Regardless of what happens in New York’s primary Tuesday, their revolutions show no sign of diminishing.
For Trump to clinch the nomination on June 7 – the last day of the primary season – he has to win a big majority of California’s congressional districts.
Clinton spoke to supporters after her convincing win in her home state against Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders. In West Virginia, however, the delegates will be listed on the ballot along with the presidential candidate they support.
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Still, Sanders and his followers have had an influence on the “establishment” – most notably in Mrs. Clinton’s leftward shift. “I don’t think there are any fundamental issues with the way it’s been done”, he said.
