In fact, they’ve already heard stories of Trump and Cruz operatives phone potential delegates to secure pledges of support.
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Pennsylvania has always been an afterthought in presidential primary stakes, but it stands to emerge as a key player in crowning this year’s Republican presidential nominee.
Trump said it wasn’t worth “what they’re going through with all the business that’s leaving, all of the strife”, making reference to the self-inflicted “economic punishment” that they’ve faced as a result.
“He recognizes that things aren’t static”.
Unlike most of Trump’s events, the crowd didn’t start chanting “Lyin’ Ted”.
But Manafort did not want to call anything a “détente” between Trump and the GOP establishment. “It’s everything that I have fought against as a Republican all my life”. That’s “the Trump I’ve always known”, Scott said. If Trump falls short of an outright majority, they say, the delegates get to decide and that’s simply how the system works. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, came Wednesday to the RNC’s quarterly meeting. at the Diplomat in Hollywood to woo members in hopes of wrestling the nomination from Trump.
Cruz allies say the senator is warmer than he’s given credit for, particularly in private moments.
“They have marshaled their expenditures so they’re spending where they can spend, and they’re not going into debt”, the former congressman said. “It’s just common sense”, said the statement from campaign spokesman Ricky Diaz.
Another similarity between the two focus groups was the general unfamiliarity the women had with Cruz and Kasich. Trump has shown flashes of what the “other Trump” might look like, but quickly reverted to his familiar campaign self. His latest target is Hillary Clinton, who Trump is calling “Crooked Hillary”. “That’s not who he is”, she said at a Trump rally at the State Fairgrounds in Harrington.
“I remember thinking to myself as I watched him play with his kids, ‘That’s the Cruz America needs to see, ‘” Ribble said.
Polls show Trump poised to do well in Pennsylvania and the other four northeastern states that vote on Tuesday, helping him build on the dominating win in his home state of NY on April 19.
“The party is like the lawyer in a divorce court”, said Holland Redfield, the RNC committeeman from the Virgin Islands. “It is a perfectly reasonable determination for the people to make”.
“They are definitely on the minds of lots of people here, especially when they saw Steve House, one of their colleagues, getting death threats”.
Trump made the comments in reply to a question at an outdoor town hall meeting. And he added how he could help their own party efforts with his promised coattails. “He can not be elected without the Republican Party”.
“Donald Trump will not be the nominee – if the Never Trump forces get serious”. He’s an insurgent candidate trying to appeal on a populist level.
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“If he suddenly changed, it would be really disappointing”, said Irene Mallabar, 67, a retired antique dealer from Milford, Delaware. He said he expects a competitive race and hasn’t ruled out an endorsement.
