Stinging from a loss to rival Ted Cruz in the Wisconsin Republican primary, Donald Trump held a rally in NY on Wednesday, telling his supporters that Cruz has shown “hatred for New York”, as Trump seeks to shore up support in his home state.
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But he still badly trails Trump in the all-important delegate count. Yet with the likelihood of a contested national convention on the rise, a handful of delegates could make a difference, and the competition for their selection has taken on much greater significance than has traditionally been the case.
But this year had been far from typical for Republicans.
While Mr Sanders is a Brooklyn native, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is a former senator from NY, and she has been highlighting her economic record in visits to struggling cities throughout the state.
As for his Republican colleagues in Congress, Davis said the atmosphere hasn’t become polarized, even as some might support different candidates.
MA has been allotted 42 convention delegates.
“I thought Marco would be a tremendous president”, Davis said. The campaign had been pessimistic about its prospects of winning any delegates there.
This is where things get interesting.
Trump announced that he has assigned all functions related to the nomination process to veteran political operative Paul Manafort, who was hired to manage the process of corralling delegates who will pick the nominee.
That means all 42 delegates from MA can cast ballots for anyone they want. Trump is the other only candidate to have won a majority of the delegates in eight states, and it is nearly impossible for John Kasich to do so.
There’s also no requirement that a delegate declare his second or third round preference ahead of time – meaning their selection of a potential nominee is a matter of their personal preference. Washington is a proportional state, which requires candidates to get at least 20 percent of the vote in order to receive a delegate allocation.
“Voters who say they voted for Schwarzenegger in 2003 prefer Trump over Cruz almost three to one”, DiCamillo said.
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Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, left, answers a question, as Republican presidential candidate, Sen.
