That means North Dakota delegates do not have to vote for a candidate based on a popular vote. “It’s a rigged system”, he told a boisterous crowd in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Saturday. “We have to win big because the system is rigged”.
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Trump has been relentless in his criticism of the delegate system, slamming party “bosses” and calling out the Republican National Committee and its chairman, Reince Priebus.
“61 percent for Trump – was so overwhelming that I think it had a psychological effect, where if nobody stops Trump in any of these states, notably in or somewhere on the West Coast, it’s going to be hard to see how he’s denied the nomination”, he said on “Special Report” Friday.
“It’s impossible to catch us”, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said after winning the NY primary Tuesday – and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer seems to agree. For the Republicans, in particular, the stakes are high as Trump looks to sweep the remaining contests and reach the required 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, while his rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich look to thwart his efforts and force the race into a contested convention. “‘Because if I knock him out there’s nothing the judges can do”.
“[That’s] where everything is going to hinge”, he said, “but we also have numbers on that, and they are devastating for Cruz”.
But state Republican Party leaders say they aren’t going to suddenly change rules that have been in place for years.
Manafort “said, ‘you know, Donald can be different when he’s in a room.’ Who isn’t”, asked Trump.
“That’s what’s important for you to understand: That he gets it, and that the part he’s been playing is evolving”, he said.
He hammered at “disastrous trade policies”, describing them as not a sexy issue but an important issue, saying that “we are seeing corporation after corporation shut down in the United States throw millions of workers out in the street, people who are earning a living wage”.
Nonetheless, frustration with Trump’s attacks on the RNC and the integrity of the nomination process were widespread in Florida, even as Trump’s team was trying to make amends. He stressed that the candidate had had some “very good” conversations with Priebus and said the campaign hoped to work closely with state party leaders to build its general election campaign.
“It’s not democratic”, said Paul Eugstenberg, 72, a retired pilot from Dover, Delaware.
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Kasich says new polling shows more New Hampshire primary voters now support him than Trump, who won there in February. They have to fix this. “But it might be what I have to do”.
