“I think we’ll win a majority at the convention and then we’ll go on and beat Hillary in November”.
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Ted Cruz received an indifferent welcome at the annual New York State Republican gala on Thursday, with attendees talking over his speech and walking around while he was still onstage. It focused not on how to secure additional congressional endorsements but how to spread Trump’s message on the ground among voters, attendees said. “We need to pick a nominee”.
But the GOP canceled a poll that would have shown which candidate won.
“This is a wretched development, a disgraceful provocation by the Suffolk County Republicans”, The New York Times said in an April 8 editorial.
Cruz has not campaigned heavily in NY. Trump backers demand those results be nullified and a straw poll held.
“Well, that’s a very generous offer, Donald”, Cruz said. “It’s a phony deal”, Trump said Tuesday, saying that his supporters are being cut out of the election process, according to the New York Times. Instead, 475 party activists convened in Casper on Saturday to hold a state convention and award 14 delegates.
So far, only one of the five uncommitted delegates from Louisiana has publicly backed either candidate, and that delegate said he would vote for Cruz, increasing the likelihood he could win a majority of the state’s delegation on the first ballot, despite losing the primary there.
The poll shows Trump getting the support of 54 percent of the state’s likely Republican primary voters, unchanged from an NBC News/ Wall Street Journal / Marist poll published Monday, which was conducted by the same pollster.
Trump moved on Wednesday to strengthen his position in Washington by announcing he had hired Rick Wiley as his national political director. Marco Rubio, who has since left the race.
Cruz’s scavenger hunt for delegates – he claimed all 34 Colorado delegates at the state’s GOP convention last weekend – has drawn howls of protest from Trump. who told Fox News the process is “rigged” against him.
The trio of candidates made their appeal at a $1,000-a-head dinner inside the Grand Hyatt hotel in midtown, as hundreds of anti-Trump protesters rallied outside behind police barricades.
In a brief statement, Trump said as president he would boost California’s economy to its full potential.
“And I think ultimately that hard work paid off”, he says.
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The skit also brought up Cruz’s “New York values” remark, and the fake Trump advised him to start writing down the advice.
