Ted Cruz won most of the delegates at stake in Saturday’s Republican county conventions in Wyoming. Cruz are “in essence voting for Donald Trump”.
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Even President Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Axelrod was impressed.
Donald Trump’s new campaign ad in OH makes the ultimate accusation against Gov. John Kasich.
The adviser said if Rubio wins Florida and Kasich wins OH, “it’ll be a whole new day”.
Rubio made his remarks Friday at a Jewish temple here where he reiterated his concerns about Trump’s knowledge of foreign policy.
The convention was the first of its kind in the nation’s capital, and it offered a rare opportunity for Republicans in the overwhelmingly Democratic city to cast a meaningful vote.
Cruz has the backing of some half dozen House members, but only one endorsement from a fellow senator, Mike Lee of Utah. One of them is a socialist.
Five big states, including Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, vote on Tuesday with Mr Cruz, Mr Rubio and Mr Kasich hoping to halt Mr Trump’s march to the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination.
If the Trump wins both OH and Florida next week, number crunchers have widely predicted that the frontrunner would have so many delegates, he’d become nearly impossible to stop unless his campaign were to completely implode.
It was a remarkable sight: Two of the four candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination are sons of Cuban immigrants. “And that’s the frustration that is boiling over”, Cruz said when asked if he was concerned that the behavior of some of Trump’s supporters would hurt the Republican Party in the general election.
Rubio defeated Kasich by just 50 votes, with 2,839 people – 10 percent of the city’s registered Republicans – casting ballots.
He said that the man – identified as John Franklin McGraw – began hitting people, and the audience hit back. He said the other Trump is more exciting. “This is really going to do damage to America”.
“Trump is unapologetic and speaks his mind”, she said.
Trump’s comments about building a southern border wall and his accusations that many Mexicans in the USA are “criminals, drug dealers, rapists” have outraged and alienated many American Hispanics.
Gloomy assessments of the country’s future have emerged as a constant refrain of the 2016 presidential contest, as candidates woo a frustrated and anxious electorate.
The two-hour debate included a sober discussion of pressing challenges from illegal immigration to reform of Social Security to free trade deals, a marked departure from the finger-pointing schoolyard taunts that the candidates have engaged in past debates.
The Florida senator noted the Muslims in the US military and buried in Arlington National Cemetery and said the only way to solve the problem of violent extremists is to work with people in the Muslim faith who are not radicals.
“If you have a candidate who has been funding liberal Democrats and funding the Washington establishment, it’s very hard to imagine how suddenly this candidate is going to take on Washington”, Cruz said.
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Trump got a fresh injection of campaign momentum on Thursday with plans by rival Ben Carson, who is popular with conservatives, to endorse him.
