Ted Cruz completed his sweep of Colorado’s 34 delegates on Saturday while rival Donald Trump angled for favor a half-continent away in New York’s all-important April 19 primary.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants New Yorkers’ to remember what Sen. He said his view that delegates should stick with Trump will be “one of the criteria” he uses in deciding who to vote for, but not a litmus test.
As is the case elsewhere, the fact that Trump is a transparent misogynist appears to be hurting him with female voters in the Golden State, while ostensibly helping him among men: Trump has a 17-point lead over Cruz with the latter, but a 4-point deficit to the Texas senator with the former. John Kasich has Cruz beat in NY – the next state holding a primary. However, if a candidate wins 50 percent or more of the vote in each congressional district and statewide, he could take all of the state’s delegates. If no one gets a majority of delegates on that first vote, all bets are off: almost three-fourths of delegates won’t be bound on the second vote, and the percentage of unbound delegates keeps going up from there.
Still, the Trump operation showed at least some improvement in its organization on Friday after a disastrous Thursday convention during which two of the three names on its official slate weren’t even on the ballot. Kasich is hoping to pick up delegates in congressional districts across the state that will help him in a contested convention. Either will need 2,383 delegates to win the nomination.
Ted Cruz held an event in The Bronx and received a less-than-impressive turnout.
Trump entered the night with 737 convention delegates to Cruz’s 481, leaving him 500 delegates short of the 1 237 needed to become the party’s nominee in the 8 November election.
In elevating Manafort, Trump said he would add more staff before the convention in an expansion of his campaign team beyond the close-knit group of advisers who have been at his side since he jumped into the presidential race last June. The most alarming number comes with white adults without a college education, who now have a negative opinion of Trump, with 55 percent. That was corrected, but there were still four numbers wrong.
“I don’t think that you are qualified if you get 15 million dollars from Wall Street.”, said Bernie Sanders, (D) Presidential Candidate.
Colorado is unusual in that it selects its delegates without any direct input from voters, either through primaries or caucuses.
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Cruz leads in Los Angeles County and the Central Valley/Sierra areas, while Trump leads in other areas of Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
