On Thursday, the two senators announced a odd pairing, with former candidate Graham giving the Texan his endorsement and stating that he would be throwing a fundraiser for him as well.
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After dropping out of the race, Graham described the choice between Trump and Cruz as a deadly no-win situation: “It’s like being shot or poisoned”, Graham said at a Capitol Hill press conference in January.
“The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries”, he said.
Still, Graham said he believes that the third remaining Republican candidate for president, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, would be “the most viable general election candidate”, but that he does not see how Kasich can win the primary. With 100% of the votes counted, Clinton led Sanders by about 1,500 votes and Trump led Cruz by about 1,600 votes.
Trump garnered a total of 343 votes or nearly 73 percent of the total cast votes. Having won 396 delegates by Wednesday morning, Cruz needs another 841 delegates to win the nomination.
Kasich kept his campaign alive with a sizable victory over Trump in his home state of OH – his first state victory of the race. “We have people who are elitists, who are part of the ruling class of this country, or pretenders to that throne, who are openly and willingly going out here and telling the American people who have voted for Donald Trump that they’re stupid and they don’t know any better”. Political observers are saying that he could fall short of the needed number of delegates.
Besides the likes of Jackson who earlier favoured Jeb Bush and is now backing Kasich, multi-billionaire investor George Soros, too, has decided to make a mark in the USA’s political arena after more than a decade to stop a Republican from entering the White House.
The Kasich campaign said on Wednesday that campaign veterans and supporters of other GOP candidates will help him prepare for the possible convention fight. “It should be somebody running for president”, he said.
Ted Cruz is girding for an admittedly long, narrow path to clinching the GOP nomination before the Republican convention in July, a tightrope walk that has no margin for error if he is to dethrone Donald Trump at the ballot box. That’s not good enough – it takes a majority of delegates to win the nomination, according to party rules.
It also disagreed with Trump being a “popular” candidate, arguing that Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has received more votes than him and many Republicans have not voted for the real estate tycoon. The next primaries will be this Tuesday in Arizona and Utah. They are more confident next Tuesday about Utah, which has fewer delegates but is a caucus state and one where they hope Utah Sen.
“We started out with 17 people; we’re down to three”, Trump said on CNN. “I trust Ted Cruz”.
The next primary will be in Wisconsin on April 5 and then the rest of the northeastern states in the coming weeks.
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Soros, who had donated a whopping $27 million to stop George W Bush in the 2004 presidential elections, is pouring money this time again particularly supporting Hillary Clinton so that neither Trump nor Cruz become the president.
