Donald Trump won Florida’s 99 delegates, and those delegates are bound to vote for him through three ballots at the Republican National Convention. The Texas senator already had locked up the support of 21 Colorado delegates and visited the state to try to pad his numbers there.
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Roe quickly added that he doesn’t expect Trump to follow his advice.
Neither Kasich nor Trump attended the gathering in a state that has always been a stronghold for Cruz, a senator from Texas.
According to Politico, top Trump advisers are fighting for power as the campaign struggles to shift from a rally and media-centered populist appeal, to the insider political scramble to secure as many delegates as possible.
The Field poll released Thursday finds the Trump support is fueled at least in part by the same voters who backed political outsider Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003.
Because Colorado’s GOP Party did away with the binding straw poll at the March 1 caucuses, party activists are now choosing which delegates to send to the Republican National Convention.
Some 600 GOP faithful are running for the 13 at-large spots, many of whom are unpledged to any candidate. But to avoid a convention fight in Cleveland, the Donald needs to strike gold out West, and if this survey holds up, Trump’s lead will prove to be pyrite. And while it is true the OH governor statistically cannot win the nomination outright by capturing a majority of the delegates, he should stay in the contest.
Those with graduate or professional degrees responded in the opposite fashion: 48 percent pick Kasich, compared to 33 percent for Cruz and 19 percent for Trump. Should Trump, Cruz or Kasich nab the nomination, about a third of the electorate reported they would be “dissatisfied or upset” in each case.
While Washington Republicans may hate Cruz’s guts, voice and visage – and they do – it’s clear that he’s a lot closer to their values than is Trump, who sounds more like a 1950s Democrat most of the time.
“The reality is: this convention process will be over with sometime in June, probably June 7, and it’ll be apparent to the world that Trump is over that 1,237 number”.
“Both of them need a big victory in California to help them”, Del Beccaro said.
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There was concern about schemes to recruit shadow delegates who would not represent their declared candidates’ interests beyond voting for them on a first ballot in a deadlocked convention. It also overestimated Trump’s chances of winning all of New York’s delegates.
