In contrast, Borges said Trump had simply flown in for a campaign stop and claimed he had heard anecdotally of exactly one person whose door had been knocked by the Ted Cruz campaign.
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“The calendar worked in the south [but] didn’t work great for me”, Kasich said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”. It’s been decades since the last contested convention. Rubio voters move to Kasich 75/16 over Trump, Cruz voters do so 69/25, and undecideds would pick him 54/11 if Kasich and Trump ended up being the two candidates they chose between.
Before Kasich talked plans if elected president, he first gave the Republican crowd a little insight into who he is.
“I know how to balance budgets”. Kasich has devoted significant time and campaign resources to MI, and he was encouraged by a recent American Research Group poll that found him leading Trump 33 percent to 31 percent.
“We’re going to win in OH”, he said. But the Kasich team has focused most of its firepower on MI, which votes Tuesday, for now – spending roughly $850,000 on-air there, between the campaign and its affiliated super PAC, according to CMAG/Kantar Media.
Just like The Times and The Globe, it’s unclear how much this latest endorsement will really help Kasich. This next week and a half is crucial for Kasich, who’s hoping big wins in MI and OH can revive his bid. But he is confident that he will win his home state on March 15. A win in the Sunshine State is a must for its junior senator, who not only has vowed to win for his own sake, but to deny Trump its 99 winner-take-all delegates. “When you and I were in school and you made an 86 on your test, you didn’t get an A, you got a B. And so if nobody can get to 90 and get an A?” When speaking to voters, he brags about turning the state’s $8 billion deficit into a $2 billion surplus and adding hundreds of thousands of jobs after the recession – two points highlighted in a campaign ad now running statewide.
Putnam cautions that the math can be misleading, however. Clinton has a massive lead among those delegates nationally.
Of course, Romney and Trump are different stories.
“We’ll see what happens”, he said.
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Each candidate’s goal for Tuesday depends on how one perceives the race. “But that’s where 2016 is different, there’s a significant motivation from some within the Republican Party to prevent Trump from getting the nomination”.
