For example, in the 2012 race, Republican candidate Mitt Romney did not announce his running mate until August 12.
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Cruz, 45, is now trailing Trump by more than 400 delegates and a win in IN next week would make it easier for the New Yorker billionaire to reach the 1237 delegates to become GOP’s presidential nominee.
Only registered Republicans can vote in the California Republican presidential primary.
Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz announced his pick for Vice President, Carly Fiorina on April 27, 2016.
Mr Cruz, who is mathematically eliminated from obtaining the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination, has vowed to fight on and force a contested convention in July. Cruz’s only hope is to stop Trump from winning enough delegates before the convention. The senator praised Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO and herself a former presidential candidate, telling the crowd that “over and over, Carly has shattered glass ceilings”.
Trump, in turn, mocked Cruz at a rally in Indianapolis.
Donald Trump has one IN event set for Thursday.
Looks like Ted Cruz is playing by 40-year-old election rules.
“Meanwhile, now nearly clear that he won’t be running a general election campaign, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has let 225 of his campaign staffers go, in States where primaries are over”.
Des Moines native Steve Deace, a talk-show host and Cruz surrogate, tweeted during the announcement the six reasons Fiorina “is a good pick for Cruz”. In a wide-ranging, though often vague, foreign policy speech, Trump sought to answer questions about his temperament and preparedness to be commander in chief.
Asked what he would do if a second ballot occurred, Bell said, “it’s really hard to say how that process works because it’s such a rare thing”.
Like Trump, Clinton emerged from this week’s Northeastern primaries with a stronger claim on her party’s nomination.
“The Schweiker announcement came as a complete surprise”, the New York Times wrote at the time, adding that Reagan “broke with tradition” with the “bold move”. “And I am prepared to stand by his side and give this everything I have, to restore the soul of our party, to defeat Donald Trump, to defeat Hillary Clinton, and to take our country back”. “But I think she’s a great running-mate for the ticket”. The move was not successful and Ford won the nomination. “Donald Trump won”, Fiorina said, and the crowd responded with, jeers and boos.
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Trump emerged with more than 50 percent of the Republican votes in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland, and scored over 60 percent in DE and Rhode Island.
