“At this point, both Cruz and Kasich have worked in NY and they’re saying, ‘Listen, Trump is likely to come away with 60% of the vote and all 95 delegates, and this is a battle of attrition”. Twelve members of that slate won.
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“The first question was, ‘Do you pledge to support Donald Trump for the first three ballots, because that’s what you’re here to do?’ And I had to say yes”, Fernandez said.
Mr Trump said his supporters are becoming increasingly angry with states such as Wyoming and Colorado.
Saturday’s selection process lacked the hallmarks of other delegate fights – harried delegate wranglers racing around convention halls and big-name surrogates plying party leaders in private meetings.
However, the Republican National Committee shot back, and said each state develops its own process to select delegates. Many of those won election as alternates to Ohio. And Ted Cruz has done everything he can to tighten the race.
Saturday’s sweep follows Cruz’s victory last month in Wyoming, when he scored 9 of 12 available delegates at county conventions. “Colorado, we’re going to be filing protests”, Manafort said on ABC’s This Week. The Trump campaign had a table with some snacks and literature, staffed by two out-of-town Trump volunteers.
In the event, Mr. Cruz has been Velcro to all manner of Republicans who agree with the notion that he is the only living soul who stands between Mr. Trump and the scene many Republicans dread the most: the real estate-and-casino tycoon standing with his arms raised high as balloons and confetti rain upon him in Cleveland.
If Trump can’t clinch by the time the last group of primaries on June 7, then those delegates will largely be free after the first ballot at the convention to vote for the candidate of their choice.
Of the remaining delegates, Florida Sen.
When asked whether he considered himself a Trump or Cruz supporter now, he began singing, “Que sera, sera”. Ed Buchanan, a former Wyoming House speaker, has served as chairman of the Cruz campaign.
But Trump and Cruz have an incentive for avoiding having a parade of elected officials joining them on the campaign trail.
“If you don’t like what somebody’s doing, pray for them, and if you feel as though somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just for a second get over it? I mean the whole thing’s a big pay-off, has nothing to do with democracy”.
Rabin says he’s concerned that the outcome of the national convention might not reflect the will of GOP primary voters.
“We have got to unite”.
“The stakes are too high for us to hand the election to Hillary Clinton, which is what nominating Donald Trump would do”. “I don’t think there are any fundamental issues with the way it’s been done”, he said.
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“A majority of Mr. Trump’s delegates selected today support Mr. Trump”, Trump national delegate director Brian Jack told CNN on Saturday. “I some sense it works against Trump because he has not been involved”. “We’ve got a slate of delegates who are committed to supporting me in Cleveland”. So far, more than 500 have done so “and the applications continue to pour in”, said Wadi Gaitan, spokesman for the state Republican Party. But there’s also people who we shouldn’t be discriminating against.
