So I’m for none of the above. Even House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., did not rule out the idea of being drafted by the party at the convention.
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“The fact is we have to bring our party together”, Trump, more restrained than usual, said.
He said she’d be “a major embarrassment for the country” and added that she “doesn’t have the strength or the stamina to be president”. “With more than half the delegates yet to be chosen and a calendar that favours us in the weeks and months to come, we remain confident that our campaign is on a path to win the nomination”, Mr. Sanders said in a statement after Tuesday results.
Trump won three states on Tuesday, including the big prize Florida, but lost OH to that state’s governor, John Kasich. Ted Cruz. It would be a clash of potential alternatives as each man maneuvers to claim the mantle of credible alternative to the brash billionaire who has controlled the race for months.
An emboldened Donald Trump offered himself Wednesday as the inevitable Republican presidential nominee and called on balky GOP leaders to embrace the voters’ “tremendous fervor” for his candidacy.
Some Republicans have signalled that they would be open to a brokered convention, where party officials, not voters, would chose the nominee.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton today won pivotal primaries in the hotly-contested United States presidential polls and an epic clash between the two front-runners seemed imminent as they almost knocked out their rivals to secure their parties’ nomination.
“I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen”, the tycoon noted. Cruz and the Never-Trump contingent needed Kasich to grab OH, especially after it became clear that Rubio couldn’t win Florida and keep the 99 delegates out of Trump’s column.
“I think we’ll win before getting to the convention”.
“It’s been my intention to make you proud”, Mr Kasich told a roaring crowd in OH, adding a favourite line: “I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land”.
Mr Trump told CNN, after his wins in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina on Tuesday night: “The really big story is how many people are voting in these primaries”. That leaves Kasich as the last true establishment candidate running against Trump and arch-conservative Texas Sen. That defeat may ultimately turn out to be an anomaly given her wins in OH and IL.
Cruz, now second to Trump in terms of Republican delegates, began appealing to Rubio’s followers to join an anti-Trump coalition, and also suggested that Kasich exit the race because it is mathematically impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.
Trump swept Florida, North Carolina and IL while Joh Kasich took OH among the other states that went to vote on Super Tuesday.
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Trump and Cruz are in a dead heat in Missouri, which was still too close to call on the morning after the Republican primary.
