“It’s always helpful to show that you care about the party and its work if you want the party to make you a delegate”, said Ben Ginsberg, a longtime Republican lawyer and an expert on the nominating process.
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Schwarzenegger, who is backing Kasich, ran as a political outsider on a crowded ballot in 2003, when anger at Davis resulted in a recall election.
Trump, to cheering supporters, recalled how Cruz knocked “New York values” as if “we’re no good”. “When you add up the votes, 65 percent of Republicans are wanting someone outside the system so Ted is in it but he’s also an outsider”. For Trump and now his people, Cruz’s attacks on the candidate and NY are an attack on the survivors of 9/11 and its bravery through tragedy. The margin of error among the overall registered voter sample is plus-or-minus 3.2 percentage points, and for the Republicans, the margin of error is 4 percentage points. They will no more pick him than they would pick me!
“We look forward to campaigning in NY and returning to California in the weeks ahead”, spokeswoman Hope Hicks said. But who knows how it’s going to play out from here?
Cruz has outmaneuvered Trump in all the caucus states, beginning in Iowa.
On the Republican side, Mr. Trump faced the most decisive setback in his presidential campaign as the entire party establishment coalesces behind Mr. Cruz, who was also considered an outcast not so long ago.
Of the 37 delegates, 21 are being selected from Colorado’s seven congressional districts (three each), with the remaining 16 chosen statewide.
“It really reeks of inside politics and that is upsetting a lot of people”, said Gary Emineth, a Bismarck businessman and former chairman of the state GOP party.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas speaks during a campaign event at the Sottile Theatre in Charleston, S.C., February 19, 2016. He noted he didn’t find out about Trump’s now-canceled Friday speech in Ranch Palos Verdes until a CNN reporter called to tell him about it. Trump should get to the convention with many more delegates than Cruz.
APRIL 9 ― Colorado Republicans are busy this weekend making it harder for Donald Trump to get 1,237 bound and committed delegates by June 7, when the final primaries are held. [Photo by Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images]It’s true that Donald Trump is the only one that has a path where he could actually get the needed delegate count before Cleveland kicks off. There are still several months and several primaries he can use to kick up his delegate count even more.
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This could be significant as the regional differences in preferences could split the state’s allocation of its 172 delegates in the GOP convention.
