Cruz will focus on Indiana’s May 3 primary without competition from Kasich, while Cruz will stand aside in favor of Kasich in Oregon’s May 17 primary and New Mexico’s June 7 vote. However, there is no guarantee that the OH governor’s supporters will be writing the Texas senator’s name on the ballot come the IN primaries.
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With neither candidate having a clear path to winning the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the GOP nomination, each is relying on the other to cut Trump off at the pass and trigger an open convention.
The deal comes just before voters in five eastern states to go to the polls Tuesday. Their deal, he complained repeatedly Monday, is dishonest. “He’s a stubborn guy”, Trump said of Kasich. “We’re not going for the second and third and fourth and fifth”. Cruz has 33 percent, and Kasich has 19 percent.
Kasich’s chief strategist John Weaver took to Twitter to note that the campaign isn’t giving up on votes, but allocating resources where they can most help.
-Craig Herman, 66, Oregon City resident, registered Republican voter. “I think that is a decision, an allocation of resources that makes a lot of sense and it’s devoted to the principle of beating Hillary Clinton”, Cruz said. It marks the first time Kasich and Cruz have allied to try and block Trump’s nomination.
-Rickey Story, 37, resident of Milwaukie, Ore., and a registered Independent voter.
The Cruz campaign said the agreement with Kasich is created to ensure that the Republican nominee is someone who can unite the party. And in no political universe would Kasich ask them to do that.
Trump also mocked the way Kasich eats.
Wayne Richards, a Trump supporter in Plano said, “I’m disturbed about it”.
Kasich is the governor of neighbouring OH and grew up in Pennsylvania and hopes to capitalise on his connections, while Cruz hopes to tap into the state’s conservative base. “It’s good for the country to have a clear and direct choice”. On April 28, Kasich will speak at rallies in Portland and Medford.
“The establishment wants him to lose and that’s part of the reason that Cruz and Kasich want to at least get in his way keep him from getting that 1237 so they have a shot at convention”.
“I see it as being smart, calculated, knowledgeable”, Thielmeier said. I think the first immediate thing is collusion.
But while the brash billionaire is likely to have almost 1,000 delegates after Tuesday’s primaries in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and DE, he still needs every single one he can get to reach 1,237 before the party’s July convention.
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“If you collude in business… they put you in jail”. He also slammed the two politicians and said that they have been in the system for many years but they’re still way behind him.
