He also defended NY values as embodied after 9/11 when New Yorkers displayed courage and selflessness. It took place just days before New York’s primary, which comes amid an unusually contentious campaign for the nomination.
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“Whenever an ally is on the ballot, it has the potential to drive your numbers down a little bit”, said Michael Caputo, a GOP operative working for Trump’s NY campaign. He mentioned the 9/11 terrorist attacks several times.
“It’s probably because of his comments about New York values”, George Hoehmann, a Kasich supporter and a town supervisor of Clarkstown, New York, told Buzzfeed News.
Trump sought to link primary rival Texas Sen. Seventy-five percent would support Kasich, and 70 percent would support Cruz.
For Trump, the primary is a race to reach 1,237 pledged delegate, the threshold to clinch the party’s nomination. “New York values are American values – there is no difference”. It involved 303 Republican voters who either registered recently, voted in one of the last two primary elections or voted in both of the last two general elections.
Onlyr 56 percent of likely voters had even heard that Kasich was born in Pennsylvania and 95 percent of respondents said it had no impact on the likelihood that they’d vote for Kasich. “Or you can walk into that same room and you can recognize the problems and the struggles and the anxieties that people have and you can talk to them about how we can solve those problems”.
The increasingly tense Cruz-Trump relationship has proven to be comedic fodder for the Senator’s late night television appearances.
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“You know what I think?” asked Fallon/Trump. “I am the son of an immigrant, and I am proud of it”.
Trump spoke first and got the warmest reception from the room, filled with key Republican leaders and donors. “The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel” that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme”, he wrote.
“Allen County is part of the third congressional district is one of the most Republican congressional districts in the state and the 83rd in the United States and so there are supporters on all sides and I would hope that all sides keep it ladies and gentlemanly throughout the entire process”, Shine said.
But he did have complaints when Cruz operatives worked successfully to win technically uncommitted delegates in conventions, as they did in Louisiana and North Dakota. “Everyone’s had the same rules”.
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“…and start enforcing the rule of law”, Cruz went on.
