Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that “riots” could break out if he is denied the Republican presidential nomination despite having won most of the party’s primary and caucus elections.
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“I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically”, Trump told CNN after a night of wins in Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina. That means Cruz gets one step closer to the head-to-head contest against Trump that he thinks he can win. “I think if I had a day or two more, it would have been perhaps a little bit different”.
John Kasich also scored big with a win in his home state of OH, a win he believes will result in him taking the race all the way to a potentially brokered convention.
Donald Trump won Marco Rubio with an 18% lead in his own home state, Florida, forcing the Senator poised to be the representative of the Republican establishment to resign. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if he’s the last guy on earth – I’m not going to vote for this guy.
Over 200,000 millennials voted in the Florida Republican primary on Tuesday, and a slight plurality favored Donald Trump over Sen.
Some Republican operatives have said the more conservative Cruz has the best chance of stopping Trump’s momentum, but Kasich said he has no plans of dropping his presidential bid in order to cooperate with Cruz. “Only one campaign has beaten Trump over and over and over again…”
The other important storyline was whether Bernie Sanders could pull off another upset victory in OH like he did in MI, both states where manufacturing jobs are vanishing and his message condemning USA foreign trade deals has gone over well.
Kasich, who has tried to emphasize the positive in a Republican race dominated by the pugnacious Trump, said his campaign was “about holding us together, not pulling us apart”.
Cruz now has 406 delegates, Rubio 169, and Kasich 142.
Democratic delegates are divided proportionally based on statewide and congressional district votes. He said Clinton’s victories on Tuesday night were close to knocking Sanders out of the race. Ted Cruz can “come into OH with the philosophies they have and win”.
Trump predicted he would rack up a majority of delegates before the convention opens July 18 in Cleveland.
“It would be nice to see it happen, but realistically, I don’t think it’s going to happen”, Marchesani said. Cruz’s second place in Illinois, North Carolina, and possibly Missouri where he was locked 41-41 with Trump, gives him a clutch of delegates to keep him in second place with delegates.
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According to the AP, Trump won North Carolina and IL and squeaked out a narrow win over Texas Sen.
