But Cruz, who is already eliminated from reaching 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright, said he would prevent Trump from a first-ballot victory.
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State Republican Party chairman Jim Brulte told the lunch crowd awaiting Trump that “some people who don’t believe in free speech tried to stop Donald Trump from getting into the hotel”.
Because of the protest, Trump was rerouted to a back entrance. They’re going to want to support the victor, and they’re going to support Trump.
“Then we went through a fence and under a fence. I felt like I was crossing the border”. He boasted Friday that the wall would be frightening in height.
Through April 29, Trump had 996 delegates while Cruz had 565 and Kasich 153, according to the Associated Press.
“The drugs are poisoning our youth and a lot of other people and we are going to get it stopped”, he said, telling the crowd that he would force Mexico to pay for the wall.
Burlingame is right outside San Francisco, a liberal bastion that became the focal point of the immigration debate a year ago when an immigrant in the country illegally, and who had been deported multiple times, shot and killed a woman walking with her father. “He’s for America and business”, said Gilbert, 71, of Woodside.
A group of women and one man walked through the scrum topless, wearing pasties that demanded liberation for the very body parts they were barely covering.
Some protesters did manage to enter the hotel. Witnesses said the man did nothing to provoke the crowd except wear a Trump hat. Jamiel Shaw, whose teenage son was shot dead in Los Angeles in 2008, said the billionaire’s harsh anti-immigration proposals had given him “something to hope for”.
Asked if he respects Trump, Cruz would only say “I am glad Donald ran”. Cruz will give a speech at noon Saturday, followed by his running mate, Carly Fiorina, at 7:30 p.m.
Some anti-Trump demonstrators are arrested on Fair Avenue after the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rally at the Pacific Amphitheatre on Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Costa Mesa, Calif. Hundreds of people, majority apparently anti-Trump protesters, blocked an intersection and some jumped on cars outside the Orange County Fairgrounds, where Trump gave a speech to thousands Thursday night.
The protesters were arrested on Thursday as the Republican presidential frontrunner was addressing supporters at a rally in the Orange County. A grandmother and her two young granddaughters – all Trump supporters – were reportedly pepper sprayed by an anti-Trump protester. At least 20 people were arrested. She cited Trump’s “insidious” part in the birther movement that questioned Obama’s citizenship. For Cruz, keeping Trump from a sweeping Hoosier win seems crucial to his campaign’s future in this race.
A former California governor and senator, Pete Wilson, has endorsed Ted Cruz’s campaign for the GOP’s presidential nomination. PHOTOS: Trump protests erupt near GOP convention in BurlingameTrump was speaking to a room filled mostly with supporters, who paid $100 a plate to be here.
“If his goal is to get the nomination on the first ballot, he has to take a large portion of the vote in California”, said Bill Whalen, a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.
Trump, a 69-year-old billionaire real estate developer, sounded confident in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” when asked whether in would basically end the long-running Republican race in his favor.
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“It’s over. I think it’s over now”. It is worth 172 delegates to the GOP candidates, by far the most of any state in the race. Winning one of the state’s 53 congressional districts nets a candidate three delegates. When pressed by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz about whether IN is a must win, Cruz would not say.
