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Trump, Cruz Face Early Test at California GOP Conclave

Fiorina is no electoral draw: She won exactly one delegate in the GOP primary; she lost her 2010 campaign to be California’s senator, badly; and if Cruz was hoping she might somehow swing California, anyway, that’s seems like bad advance work, because she doesn’t even live in California anymore. “Hillary’s very running has put women into this debate, with candidates feeling they have to respond, and that’s exciting”.

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US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has secured a vast majority of unbound delegates from Pennsylvania, thus bringing him closer to a monumental duel with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the White House. Nevertheless, beforehand the two were competitors splitting and diluting the anti-Trump vote; now, they are allies optimizing and strengthening it. Theres value in that, if not much. “These are not just names we pulled out of a phone book”.

But Trump fares better with male voters than female, and McLaughlin’s wife, Kim, 49, said she’d like to see more manners. The candidates have begin holding rallies in the state and are establishing volunteer networks in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County to seek out rare and isolated voters who could sway a district.

In a conference call Wednesday with reporters, Sen.

The results of the recent primaries show that Clinton beat Trump in each one of the five states.

“In California, 80 percent of the women don’t like Donald Trump”. Finally, in a year when the GOP is having to reckon with the revolt of its white, working-class base, I can’t think of a worse choice to challenge Trump than an icy former CEO who shed workers with less conscience than Trump has shed wives.

By Wednesday morning, not only was #womancard trending on Twitter, so was Clinton’s response: #dealmein. “Well, if fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman’s card, then deal me in”, she said. Women make up more than half of the electorate. “The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card, and the lovely thing is women don’t like her”. “You have to give credit to the Cruz people: They planned for it”, he said of the candidate’s California strategy. When Daniels was term-limited out of office in 2013, he was succeeded by current Governor Mike Pence, who has pushed his Republican Party to be among the most aggressive on social issues.

“It’s a posture of reality”, Briggs said.

“Later in the week, Trump doubled down, telling the Today show, “…she is playing that card like I have never seen anybody play it before”. He points out that Rex Early, the chairman of Mr Trump’s campaign in IN, is one of the 57 delegates. “Look at that face”.

Democrats are also happier with their own party than Republicans, with 88% saying they view their party positively, compared to 68% of Republicans for the GOP. The crowd roared back, “No!”

You look at what she’s done in so many different ways…She will not be a good president.

Laura Ellingson, Santa Clara University professor of gender studies, says Trump’s calling out Clinton on the “woman’s card” is “ridiculous”. “He could not be more stereotypical of masculinity – he’s rich, he’s powerful, he’s mean”.

“Time is short, and every vote counts”, he told them. “The more Hillary shouts and yells, the more she’s not liked”. “Her husband signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) which destroyed this country economically”, he said. John Kasich exceeded 25% only in CT, and Ted Cruz…

The tableau will be remarkable for a state whose end-of-the-line primary on June 7 has often been ignored, coming far after the nominations were locked up. This bloc will be voting in elections for decades to come; nominating Trump could poison the well and do lasting damage to the GOP brand in the eyes of almost an entire generation.

Following the patterns of just a few weeks ago, we’d all expect Cruz to rise in the closing days of the in contest, with Trump bumping up against his 40 percent ceiling.

These delegates, however, change their minds.

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