Ted Cruz and company are playing the expectations game in NY – including the taunt that front-running businessman Donald Trump should withdraw from the Republican race if he can’t crack 50% in his home state.
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It’s not at all clear who will win the popular vote in the state-Trump, Cruz or Kasich. “We are one of the poorest congressional districts in the country, and to receive this right-wing bigot is an insult to the whole community”.
Of these, 35 percent favor Cruz and 32 percent support Trump, according to the poll.
The question over a third-party run has been intriguing during this election cycle.
“So, what we are trying to do today is we are trying to is get as many Cruz delegates elected to the state convention as we can”, Hickman said.
If Trump wins New York’s April 19 primary with a big margin, Brown says, he will solidify his position as the GOP’s leader. “Then on we will elect the final 13 at large delegates on Saturday”.
Trump canceled a planned trip to California, including a press conference that had been scheduled for Friday.
MI has 59 total Republican delegates, 42 of which are selected by congressional district caucuses and 17 of which are at-large delegates.
The Wisconsin exit polls tell the story. DiCamillo said. “It’s whether you voted for Schwarzenegger or you voted for someone else in the 2003 recall”. The Republican frontrunner has also called for the deportation of all immigrants living in the USA illegally, roughly 11.5 million people. While Cruz’s campaign spent months recruiting slates of delegates and securing pledges, Trump only this week hired a Colorado state director.
Thirteen delegates for the Republican National convention in Cleveland this summer will be chosen on Saturday.
Virginia Beaumont, a retired nurse and poll respondent from Amador County, said she supports Trump because she does not trust politicians. “And the cost of not denying him is it becomes his party, and Donald Trump becomes the face of the party”.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., one of the state’s most prominent Republicans, said anyone who lives in NY and is considering voting for Cruz “should have his head examined”.
“I support Trump. I’m gonna vote for Trump”, he said. But she came out this year because she loves Trump.
“We’re not Hitler”, Bravo said. Donald Trump will not make the trip to Colorado to address the state assembly, nor hold a rally.
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Meanwhile, Trump’s national lead over Cruz continues to slump. “And it is the liberal values of Democratic politicians who have been hammering the people of NY for decades”. Trump said he plans to open a Washington office next week. He objects to Trump’s views on immigration but said “he’d be a good general” in time of war.
