“I will say this: I have tremendous respect for Gov. Mike Pence”, Cruz said, with Fiorina standing at this side.
Advertisement
Republican Ted Cruz launched a blistering attack on rival Donald Trump as voters cast ballots in IN on Tuesday, calling him “amoral” and likening him to a fictitious character he described as “a braggadocios, arrogant buffoon”.
Fresh off a sweep of five Northeastern states last week, Trump wants a win in IN to put him within reach of the 1,237 delegates required to lock up the Republican nomination before the convention.
Cruz vowed on Monday to “compete to the end” but a loss in IN would be particularly crushing for the senator, who has argued that his brand of religious conservatism is a natural draw for heartland Republicans.
“I am in for the distance – as long as we have a viable path to victory”, Cruz told reporters after campaigning at a popular breakfast stop.
Compared to a few weeks ago when the Republican candidates had similar margins against Clinton, Trump has gained ground in the match-up against Clinton whereas Cruz has lost momentum, suggesting that perhaps voters are supporting Trump as the Republican Party’s potential nominee more than they have in the past.
But she’s not going to vote for Cruz – there’s just something about the Texas senator that Stout doesn’t like. Polls show Cruz significantly behind Trump in a state that Cruz has said is crucial to stopping the billionaire businessman.
Cruz last week also announced his choice for a prospective vice president, the former presidential contender and Hewlett Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina, during an event in IN that some criticised as premature. It is also wildly expensive to advertise in California, where a statewide ad buy can cost between $2.5 million and $3 million a week. Campaign manager Jeff Roe confirmed the fundraising total to The Associated Press. Remember this: If Trump wins, he is not assured of nailing down the nomination ahead of the convention.
Cruz meanwhile has been painting IN as a battleground for the soul of the party and denouncing Trump’s style and substance.
“Heaven knows what justices Donald Trump would pick”, he said. “Rapists are not tough guys”. She endorsed Cruz a month later, Xinhua news agency reported.
In a dynamic and combative speech, she urged Kasich to get out of the race, and challenged the idea that Trump had locked up the nomination.
But the NBC poll showed Cruz trailing Trump by 15 percentage points, and other recent polls point to a Trump victory as well.
He did hedge slightly, saying “we’ll have to see” exactly what happens, but “we are having such popularity here”.
“I’m a Republican in San Francisco”, she said.
“Every day he sits on the sidelines is another day in which he could have made a difference”, Republican columnist Erick Erickson wrote Thursday on the website The Resurgent. It essentially involves using Fiorina as bait for Trump. Clinton has 91 per cent of the delegates she needs to become the first woman nominated by a major party.
Advertisement
Still, Pence is far from joining other Cruz endorsers like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in the stop-Trump movement. A New York Times projection says Trump will probably secure as many as 1,289 delegates, including 154 of California’s huge trove of 172 delegates.
