Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a photograph of him participating in WrestleMania during a campaign event at Crosby High School in Waterbury, Conn., Saturday, April 23, 2016.
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Clinton charged that rhetoric from Trump and Ted Cruz is “not only offensive, it’s unsafe”. The more restrained version, as you can see in a recent op-ed published under Trump’s name in The Wall Street Journal, is that the candidate who gets the most votes should be the Republican nominee – that delegates shouldn’t upend the people’s verdict.
Cruz and other Republicans who support such restrictive legislation often rely on what’s called the “predator myth”, falsely claiming that by allowing transgender people to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity, male sexual predators can exploit the law and more easily attack women. “We’re not going for the second and third and fourth and fifth”, said Trump.
Sanders said in an interview with NBC News, in response to a question about his losses in states with a large wealth gap: “That’s a sad reality of American society”.
But in the end Sanders came up short – not just of winning, but of the delegate target allies had aimed to hit, which might set them up for a path through California, the campaign’s final hope.
At a Providence, Rhode Island, park the Vermont senator largely steered clear of Clinton, but hours later ramped up his critique before more than 14,000 supporters in New Haven, Connecticut.
Trump is leading in Republican polls in all five states that vote Tuesday: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
But if Trump needs a contested convention to win the nomination, the opinion of the RNC members who gathered in Florida may matter most.
Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist, suggested that he is open to supporting Hillary Clinton for president and said it was possible she would make a better president than her Republican rivals. He denies giving money to efforts to oppose Trump.
Others like Utu Abe Malae, chairman of the Republican Party in American Samoa, said that he would never support Trump, though he was not ready to commit to Cruz.
Hillary Clinton is reflecting on the life of Harriet Tubman in a Philadelphia church.
It was announced this week that that Tubman would be featured on the $20 bill.
NY in the rearview mirror, the focus of both the Democratic and Republican presidential battles turns to a series of Northeast states that have typically been irrelevant in past cycles thanks their fairly late spot in the nomination process.
Trump’s convention manager Paul Manafort said on “Fox News Sunday” that the Cruz campaign “steamrolled” the process.
Mr Cruz made the comment after Mr Manafort told a closed-door meeting of top Republican officials last week that the party’s White House front-runner would temper the image he has projected so far, saying the “part that he’s been playing is now evolving”.
For his part, Trump this weekend told his supporters in CT that he has to “rant and rave” onstage to keep people from falling asleep. “Emotions are high, and I personally feel it will be very hard to reach a consensus for the first ballot, even if one candidate has the requisite 1,237 delegates going in”, Warren told TIME via email.
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Trump said he has no intention of reversing his provocative proposals, including building a wall along the Mexican border.
