“Ted does not have the temperament to be doing this”, Trump said.
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For the Republicans, Indiana has been viewed as Ted Cruz’s last stand to prevent Donald Trump from winning the nomination outright.
The NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll was conducted online April 25 through May 1, 2016 among a national sample of 14,640 adults aged 18 and over, including 12,462 who say they are registered to vote.
A Monday afternoon campaign event in the tiny town of Marion, Indiana (population 29,000) gave a taste of what Mr Cruz is up against. Her rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, however, said he would not quit, insisting Clinton was the wrong choice for the American people.
Lonegan, known for his outspoken manner, is a former mayor of Bogota, in Bergen County, who has run for governor, Congress and other offices. Campaign officials had been told to prepare for Cruz to deliver “a very somber” speech Tuesday night in Indianapolis, according to one aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal discussions. “And if you can’t earn a majority, you can’t be the nominee, because it means you can’t unite the party and you’d be an incredibly weak general election candidate”. Trump only needs 242 delegates to do so.
More recent polling shows a tighter race for each side, but the clear frontrunners are once again Clinton and Trump following their big wins along the northern East Coast last week.
But Lewandowski – echoing his candidate’s comments that the nomination fight will be “over” if he wins IN – insisted Tuesday’s vote would be the inflection point of the campaign. And they favour Clinton by a almost 18-1 margin. Sanders would have to win by wide margins to cut into Clinton’s delegate lead, and they don’t see that happening.
A Sanders’ victory would provide a boost, and an embarrassment to the front-runner, but wouldn’t make dent in Clinton’s edge in delegates, which are awarded proportionally.
Fifty-seven delegates are at stake in IN, with the lion’s share going to the victor of the statewide vote: 30 of the 57 go to whoever wins the primary, while the remaining 27 are allocated based on the state’s nine congressional districts. In fact, most of the candidates – including business mogul Donald Trump, Texas Sen.
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As the Cruz campaign moved to NY and Pennsylvania following its victory in Wisconsin, Pastor Cruz was dispatched to in to begin sowing the many evangelical congregations there.
