It’s an extremely slim one, though, so what Cruz and Kasich should rather do – if they are serious about saving the Republican Party from the calamity a Trump nomination would be – is coordinate: tell their supporters to vote for whichever man is most likely to defeat Trump in a given state.
Advertisement
Other campaigns reacted less kindly: A few minutes after Romney made his news, Kasich’s chief strategist, John Weaver, tweeted: “Good to know Ted Cruz is the establishment, K-Street backed candidate”. I won OH because of my message and my record, and guess what? “If you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before”.
There was support for a Cruz-Kasich, or Kasich-Cruz, ticket, but some anxious that “egos” might make this hard to achieve.
With at least three more states in his win column, Trump is now the only candidate with a path to clinching the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July. I think I will get over that number. “This primary, I think, is a critical moment where Donald Trump obviously has a lot of momentum, he’s in the lead right now, and I think the only way to beat him is for us to come together and unite as one”. “Now that’s going to be helped by the fact that some of the voters are now going to go for him now that Rubio is out of the race”, Brady said.
Clinton has at least 1,561 delegates, including the superdelegates who are elected officials and party leaders free to support the candidate of their choice.
Cruz would have to win about 80 percent of the delegates from here on out, which, barring an utter collapse of the Trump campaign, seems virtually impossible. “Cruz and I encourage others to do so as well, so that we can have an open convention and nominate a Republican”.
“First he’s campaigning with Kasich, then he endorses Cruz….”
There appears to be an uprising within the Republican party that does not want Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee for president.
It also disagreed with Trump being a “popular” candidate, arguing that Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has received more votes than him and many Republicans have not voted for the real estate tycoon.
“Because it’s not a victor take all, but by congressional district, that means that each of the candidates remaining in the race has an opportunity in their areas of strength to pick up delegates and they’re all going to need as many delegates as they can get”, Dhillon said.
Trump is not only facing political attacks; the hacking group Anonymous also taking aim, saying, “Donald Trump has set his ambitions on the White House in order to promote an agenda of fascism and xenophobia”.
Paul said he took no pleasure in the GOP’s current conundrum, but did suggest their eventual nominee could face a third-party general election challenge.
Advertisement
Trump urged Republicans to view the party’s nominating contest with the same sense of clarity.
