Trump’s victory in IN, which caused his opponents, Ted Cruz and John Kasich to drop out of the race, may also induce liberal Democrats to rally around Clinton, lest their support for her opponent Bernie Sanders strengthen Trump.
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Kasich’s move comes a day after one of his only remaining rivals, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, announced that he was suspending his campaign.
Steve Rabinowitz, a Democratic consultant who previously worked for Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, said that politically active American Jews have been reacting with a mixture of “shock and amusement” as Trump’s nomination becomes seemingly inevitable.
Touting his two terms as governor and 18 years in Congress, Kasich failed to gain traction with GOP voters in a race dominated by Trump’s ability to seize on the electorate’s anger and disdain of political insiders.
Mr Kasich was a more moderate candidate who embraced elements of President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul and called for an optimistic and proactive Republican agenda.
“We’re going to get people together”, Trump said Wednesday on Fox News after seizing the mantle of Republican standard-bearer. Still others said they might vote in the November 8 general election for Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. “And there are going to be people who are going to criticize me for that”. Cruz won 37 percent and Kasich, 7 percent.
Supporters of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hold their hands to their chest as the national anthem is played at a campaign rally in Concord, New Hampshire. “The answer is simple: No”, tweeted Nebraska senator Ben Sasse.
“Listen, I believe, and I’ve always believed, Donald Trump can get the same percentage of votes that Arnold Schwarzenegger got in California, maybe 1 or 2 percent more”, Costa said.
What’s their plan moving forward?
She and Mr Trump now plunge into a six-month battle for the presidency, with the future of America’s immigration laws, healthcare system and military posture around the world at stake.
Some conservative leaders were planning a Wednesday meeting to assess the viability of launching a third party candidacy to compete with him in the autumn.
Hours before clinching victory in Indiana, Trump was floating an unsubstantiated claim that Cruz’s father appeared in a 1963 photograph with John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald – citing a report first published by the National Enquirer.
The GOP electorate, fed up with a Republican Party they felt had too often capitulated to Democratic demands, was angry, and Trump became the vehicle for that anger and desire for an outsider candidate. “He is a loose cannon, and loose cannons tend to misfire”, she said on CNN.
Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is open to raising the minimum wage, despite previous statements opposing such a change.
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Trump meanwhile spoke Wednesday about his potential running mate, saying he wanted someone with “political experience”.
