The move follows Mr Trump’s loss this week in Wisconsin to rival Ted Cruz, which makes it increasingly unlikely that Mr Trump will be unable to collect the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination before the national Republican convention.
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But he insisted that the more important question for voters is which candidate understands “the principles and values that made America great in the first place”.
“He’s the only one who has nerve enough to stand up for our country and tell it the way it is”, the 73-year-old Republican said. He plans to hold a rally on Sunday afternoon in Rochester in upstate NY.
Ted Cruz, who the Atlantic describes as “a candidate many members of the anti-Trump GOP establishment despise almost as much as Trump”.
All three of the republican presidential candidates still in the race were invited to the event here tomorrow.
Cruz’s troubles in NY continued later Wednesday, when he was scheduled to visit Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory. Some donors said that if Cruz was perhaps not their ideal choice for president – or even their third or fourth choice – he now seemed to be the only candidate with enough delegates to force a contested convention and deny Trump the nomination. “Every single delegate”, said Carl Paladino, Trump’s honorary NY campaign co-chairman.
A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of Trump. Democratic turnout was not depressed by lack of suspense: Bernie Sanders won with 57 percent, and there was a hotly contested partisan race for state Supreme Court.
That means Mrs Clinton has 1,287 delegates based on primaries and caucuses to Mr Sanders’ 1,037.
Many people seem to be wondering if the Cruz victory gives the “Stop Trump” movement momentum, or will it be crushed in New York – Trump’s home state and the next to vote?
US Uncut said of the Wisconsin result: “The win is still a surprising one for Sanders, as he was the underdog as recently as ten days ago”.
The campaign said in a statement Thursday that Trump is “consolidating the functions related to the nomination process” and assigning them to Manafort, who last week was named convention manager.
Mrs Clinton, at an evening rally before a Latino crowd in Brooklyn, found a rare point of agreement with Donald Trump on the matter of NY values. “Then on we will elect the final 13 at large delegates on Saturday”.
“We’re not Hitler”, Bravo said. They will be the first delegates elected in Virginia, with the other 46 delegates being decided later this month and in May at other congressional district conventions and a state convention.
She urged New Yorkers to help lock up the Democratic nomination so “we can go after the Republicans full time”. Mr Cruz’s supporters sported bright orange T-shirts with his slate of delegates printed on the back. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz managed to win six delegates already from Colorado. Weaver claims that neither Sanders nor Clinton will amass a majority of pledged delegates before the July convention. And among those under 45, Sanders wins 64% to 32% to Clinton.
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The imbroglio over the now infamous phrase began at a Republican debate in SC when Cruz attempted to undermine Trump’s conservative bona fides by attacking his “New York values”.
