Should the Republican Party award Kasich the nomination over Donald Trump, the latter campaign warned that such a “rigged” process could result in an angry electorate and, hence, lower voter turnout. Ultimately, Cruz, who spoke at the event, walked away with at least 24 of the state’s 29 delegates. The memo even suggests specific congressional districts in CT and Maryland.
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Nehring said the Cruz campaign was “well prepared” for upcoming states after NY, telling MSNBC’s Tamron Hall to “just watch”. The five- or six-delegate pickup hardly represents a haul.
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich would defeat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a general election head-to-head match-up, according to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Monday reported – making that the 15 straight time since February. By that new measure, Kasich met expectations.
Mr. Kasich was in a distant second place at about 25 percent statewide, and Sen. Under that strategy, Cruz and Kasich think delegates, no longer bound to Trump, would support them. For a presidential hopeful to be the definite nominee, they have to receive the votes of 1,237 out of 2,472 delegates.
He has 559 delegates right now. Kasich was one of several blue-state governors who had vowed to fight the law by refusing federal funds to expand Ohio’s Medicaid program, but who changed their minds after Mitt Romney’s loss in the 2012 presidential election saw any hope of repeal at the federal level postponed. Trump and Cruz have a reason to be nervous.
More importantly, Cruz and his allies have more money.
To that end, Kasich’s staff continued their drumbeat that anti-Trump PACs should spend against him on the East Coast. A crowd of thousands greeted the frontrunner, who seemed energized by his win in NY on Tuesday and by the response he received. A Monmouth University poll has Donald Trump at 44 percent of likely GOP voters in Pennsylvania.
Before he was asked at the Annapolis campaign stop about his stance on subsidized health insurance for the poor, Kasich volunteered several of his standard Obamacare expansion talking points while lauding his own economic record in Ohio.
Kasich predicted the convention would be “deadlocked” and said that would be his opening.
Kasich said there are a few exceptions in the GOP, but “most of ’em – the party is kind of a knee-jerk against”.
But not even the jobs, he said, went to locals; most of the companies hired people from out of state. Dawson Hodgson, a Kasich co-chair, said in an email.
And if you look at OH, you know, we have so many ideas, new ideas, newfangled ideas in OH it’s unbelievable, and they’re paying off. It’s the same thing I did when I was here, whether it was reforming the Pentagon or fixing the budget.
Kasich will make that pitch himself Wednesday evening.
“We expect to be competitive” in Pennsylvania, Weaver wrote, “but more importantly, we’re focused on supporting delegate candidates who will work at the convention to nominate the most electable candidate in the fall”.
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Kasich says new polling shows more New Hampshire primary voters now support him than Trump, who won in that state in February.
