Cruz supporters, led by former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, held firm control of the state convention.
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With Trump at almost 1,000 national delegates out of 1,237 he needs to win the presidential nomination outright after recent sweeps of five eastern states, even Cruz’s Arizona backers believe Saturday’s effort is likely to be for naught.
“The reason Donald Trump is so frenetic to say, ‘It need to be over, it needs to be over, ‘ is that I think Donald knows he can’t earn the support of a majority”, said Cruz.
Trump supporters won 3 and Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s backers were shut out.
A new poll released Sunday showed the Democratic candidates are neck-and-neck while Republican front-runner Donald Trump maintains his lead, CBS2’s Brook Silver-Braga reported.
The Californian Republican Party voted on Sunday to extend its term limit to allow the former lawmaker who brought the party back from near-bankruptcy in an increasingly Democratic state to seek a third term as chairman. Nobody is getting to 1,237.
Mr Trump’s opponents are hopeful Ms Fiorina can help Mr Cruz in the state’s primary.
Trump was in California ahead of the state’s June 7 primary, where the most delegates of the nominating cycle will be awarded.
“That was not the easiest entrance I’ve ever made”, Trump said at the convention after protesters forced him to arrive on foot Friday.
Trump opponents hoping to push the race to a contested national convention where each delegate can wield outsized power in picking the Republican nominee. And Trump rolled out his own big name endorsement, former IN basketball coach Bobby Knight, before Cruz won over Pence.
The Texas senator dismissed his flagging numbers, insisting that he will continue to challenge Trump.
Donald Trump speaks to CNN’s Jake Tapper on February 21, 2016, one day after his victory in SC.
There were still party activists at the convention who were less than thrilled that Trump was on his way to leading the party towards the November election.
Though Cruz came in a distant third place in the March 1 primary, the Texas senator’s supporters have proved more organized at electing delegates.
Fox News and the rest of the GOP better run for the life rafts, because Donald J. Trump is the unsinkable Republican Titanic, who is so blinded by the fog of his own arrogance that he doesn’t see the huge Clinton iceberg waiting to sink him.
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Ducey called the past eight years “the most futile in modern American history” and told the party faithful that it’s time to “put a Republican in the White House and Hillary Clinton in the Big House”.
