Mr Trump’s triumph completes an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and sets the stage for a bitter campaign in the autumn.
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While his closest presidential rivals – Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Marco Rubio – have yet to free delegates pledged to support them at the convention, Mr Trump can win the prize with or without their help. “We’ve had tremendous support from nearly everybody”.
Martinez has declined to endorse the presumptive nominee of her party and didn’t attend the Albuquerque event, telling reporters she was too busy.
A Trump advertisement released this week attacked Hillary for her husband Bill Clinton’s infidelities, and a Clinton commercial accused the real estate magnate of having cheered on the 2008 housing collapse.
Trump is looking forward to battling Clinton in the Keystone State and throughout the country.
“It was allowed. And the rules have been clarified since I left about the practice”.
“We have to get your governor to get going”.
“Electing a president is never easy, but our party is strong, focused, and ready”, said RPOF chair Blaise Ingoglia in a statement.
Trump has been the last man standing since the beginning of the month in the Republican presidential primary. Sanders agreed to the debate in a tweet, saying “Game on”. Sanders said “the goal would be to have it in some big stadium here in California”. She now has 2,305 delegates, according to AP, 78 short of the total of 2,383 needed.
The count is not official and Trump, his party’s only remaining candidate in the race, will not officially become the nominee until delegates vote at the Republican National Convention in July in Cleveland, Ohio. Among them is Oklahoma GOP Chairwoman Pam Pollard. The speaker previously said he was not ready to offer his support to Trump but said the two have had “productive talks” in recent weeks.
ABC News reported that Trump has now secured 1,239 delegates, based on its own analysis, while CNN lifted its Trump delegate estimate to 1,237 Thursday, citing unbound delegates who said they would back the billionaire.
The former reality TV star has dominated headlines since launching his presidential campaign a year ago with a mix of incendiary comments and policy stances seen as insulting Mexicans, Muslims and women among others.
Limbaugh said it doesn’t matter whether Trump was right or wrong.
But millions of grass-roots activists, many of them outsiders to the political process, have embraced him as a plain-speaking populist.
Overnight some wavering delegates finally committed to Mr Trump and the U.S. news agency Associated Press reports that it was enough for Mr Trump to secure his party’s nomination.
“Of course they’re rattled”, she said of foreign leaders.
Still, Trump’s pivotal moment comes amid a new sign of internal problems.
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Ryan’s staff said he spoke with Trump Wednesday night but not about the possibility of an endorsement.
