If GOP leaders try to deny him the nomination at a contested convention when he is leading the delegate count, Trump warned, “You’d have riots“.
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The brash billionaire, who won at least three more states on Tuesday but doesn’t yet have the needed majority of delegates, predicted on Wednesday he’d collect enough support before the Republican convention this summer. “I think you’d have riots”, Trump said Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day”.
“I want you to know as I continue to pursue this campaign: I’m not going to take the low road to the highest office in the land”, Kasich said, to cheers from the crowd.
Barbour said Trump “doesn’t deserve to be president”, but said he could ultimately support him if he “can convince me that he’s presidential material”.
Mr Trump has at least 646 delegates and is favoured to win many coming contests, but challenges from opponents Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich have blunted his momentum.
Another Republican nominee Senator Marco Rubio, who had hoped to win in Florida, lost at his home ground and announced his withdrawal from the presidential race.
But that extraordinary scenario – in which the party would seek to override the outcome of the primaries and unite around an alternative candidate – is a long shot few in the party seem to have the stomach for. The attack on Clinton indicates voters will see more of this classless behavior all the way to the November general election. Clinton was more willing than Republican officials to recognize the likelihood of a Trump nomination, warning supporters that the NY real estate mogul has laid out a “really unsafe path” for the country.
For a candidate to win the Republican nomination, he must have 1,237 delegates. We’ll also take a look at where things stand with campaign finance and donations, and the influence it’s had thus far on the 2016 election.
Trump now leads his Republican rivals with 671 delegates. Sen. It should be noted that Trump’s secure victories in large states concern the Republican Party’s leadership, since many members of its establishment disagree with the party frontrunner’s policy proposals and manner of speaking. I’m not interested in being vice-president.
Just days removed from his exit from the GOP presidential race, Marco Rubio suggested Thursday he could endorse formal rival Ted Cruz for his party’s nomination.
“I’m not running for governor of Florida”, he said.
Trump now has 621 delegates. Cruz has 406 and Kasich 142. Rubio left the race with 168.
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After a surprise victory in MI last week, Sanders spent more time and resources to compete in OH and IL. The 2,383 delegates needed for the Democratic nomination was in sight for her. That makes it easier for Sanders to stay close enough to Clinton in the delegate count, but also makes it harder for him to make up the difference.
