Trump has begun calling for Sanders to run as an independent if he does not win the Democratic nomination and said he may borrow talking points from Sanders’ speeches criticising Clinton to use in a possible matchup with the former secretary of state in the November 8 general election. Most of the GOP delegates – 54 – were directly elected by voters, with their names listed on the ballot but no information about which candidate they support and no obligation for them to have to line up with one of them.
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Trump now has 80 percent of the 1,237 delegates needed to win the convention.
“She’s playing it much harder this time, and she will be called on it”, he said on CNN’s “New Day”.
“We also signed a lot of delegates”.
Yet to imagine the female Trump is to recognize the lingering, embedded nature of gender stereotypes, and the continuing obstacles – the not-so-buried campaign land mines – that face women running for office. “Others are to come”. “Listen, I would make a very explicit outreach to the people of IN who are supporting John Kasich if you don’t want to see Hillary Clinton as president, if you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee which makes certain Hillary Clinton is the president, then I ask for your support”.
Pennsylvania will send 71 delegates to Cleveland this summer, but only 17 are awarded to the statewide victor.
Trump’s performance all but fully derailed a last-ditch, apparently ineffective, “Stop Trump” deal between Kasich and Cruz to join forces to prevent the billionaire developer from winning the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. The senator and governor have teamed up, divvying up states, in an effort to deny Trump the nomination and force a sequence of votes at the convention in Cleveland.
“Tonight this campaign moves back to more favorable terrain”, Cruz said during an evening rally in Knightstown, Indiana.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. John Kasich is expected to be shutout. Trump, even as he frequently boasts about his personal wealth, has made a point of disavowing special interests and corporate money like Sanders, billing himself the only candidate that is “self-funding” his presidential campaign.
“When he is attacked, he will respond”, Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told Reuters in an interview.
Ryan Costello, a USA congressman from the sixth district, told CNN that if elected he would support his constituents’ choice on the first ballot.
When confronted about the sexist nature of his remarks during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, Trump did not back down.
Another congressional district where the Trump slate ran the table was the 17th in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
“I think the only thing she’s got going is the fact that she’s a woman”, he said.
“If any deals are done”, he added, “it will be done with someone else’s vote”.
Other Sanders fans are far less willing to consider Trump as an alternative.
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“When you stand there and you’re listening, then somehow I looked like I was a hostage”, Christie said, referring to an earlier experience standing behind Trump not long after Christie endorsed his former rival in February.
