Mr Cruz is more than 400 delegates away from Mr Trump. “It felt like I was crossing the border, actually”. “That’s why I want you to keep imagining a tomorrow where instead of building walls, we’re breaking down barriers”.
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The governor was asked to respond to Mary Pat Christie being the newest member of New Jersey’s first family to grab national attention for a facial expression while standing behind Trump during a campaign event. “I think he’s very, very competent”, Levine said.
“If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote”, Trump said Tuesday night.
Trump has beamed with confidence at his IN rallies.
His crushing defeat by the former state secretary marks a decisive setback that may, in fact, end his candidacy and usher his massively popular campaign into a new phase, with or without the prospect of U.S. presidency. “As far as I am concerned, it’s over”, Trump declared in a victory speech at the Trump Towers. But the reality that IN and California are even factors IN the race is evidence of how the GOP battle is going down to the wire.
Trump also has the highest percentage of support from men (45 percent) and women (36 percent) of any of the three active candidates. Protests at the event turned violent, as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police, hurled rocks and smashed a police vehicle window.
All this is why – despite his big wins on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, despite his large delegate lead, and despite the manifest weaknesses of his two remaining opponents – Trump is still no sure thing for the GOP nomination.
He needs 1,237 delegates to earn the party’s presidential nomination. “We have them, as opposed to waiting around for the convention”, he told host Chris Cuomo.
“Many of us who have expressed concerns are reconciling ourselves to the fact that in all likelihood he will be the eventual nominee”, South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford, who supports Texas Sen.
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But Trump will not emerge from Pennsylvania with the guaranteed support of any of those unbound delegates. Democrats and Independents are not going to vote for Donald Trump. “As of today, we have 1,001”, he told the California Republicans. While it is hard for Ted Cruz to win the nomination in conventional ways, he has stalled Trump by taking advantage of the local convention process so that he can acquire delegates in some states that have already called together primaries and caucuses.
