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The Race Is on for Unbound Delegates
On March 12, Rich Counts won a ticket to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as a D.C. delegate for Marco Rubio. Three days later, the senator dropped his presidential bid, and Counts became a wanted man.
“I didn’t even see the [concession] speech for Rubio because I was at another event, but I was already getting emails from other campaigns,” he said.
Read More >>California poll: Trump leads GOP; Clinton, Sanders close
Donald Trump leads among likely California Republican primary voters months ahead of the state’s June 7 contest, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are within single digits, according to the results of a survey from the Public Policy Institute of California released Wednesday evening.
Read More >>Shadow campaign to deny Trump his delegates begins
When South Dakota’s Republican activists convened in Pierre to pick their delegates to the Republican national convention, they got an unexpected visitor.
Merle Madrid, senior aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had flown in from Columbus to make an appeal: If the convention fails to elect front-runner Donald Trump on the first ballot, consider Kasich on the second — even if the state’s Republican voters sent them there to back Trump or Ted Cruz.
Read More >>John Kasich Rejects a G.O.P. Call to Quit to Block Donald Trump
Republicans desperate to stop Donald J. Trump from capturing the presidential nomination increased the pressure Wednesday on Gov. John Kasich of Ohio to quit the race, with Jeb Bush joining the growing number of party figures throwing their weight behind Senator Ted Cruz.
Mr. Kasich refused, saying that he, not the Texas senator, was the best option to stop Mr. Trump. But his argument was undercut by his dismal showings Tuesday in Utah and Arizona, where he won no delegates — as well as by the surprise endorsement Wednesday morning by Mr. Bush of Mr. Cruz.
Read More >>Western Tuesday Results, Analysis
Four of the five remaining major presidential candidates had what, to varying degrees, might be considered good days yesterday on so-called Western Tuesday. The Washington Post offers the following report this morning, declaring former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump the biggest winners of the night:
Winners and losers from the Arizona, Utah and Idaho votes
Arizona was the big prize of the night, the third-biggest winner-take-all state on the map, with 58 delegates. There was some chatter in ... Read More >>
Poll: Kasich, Cruz voters prefer Trump as second choice
Nearly half of the supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich would vote for Donald Trump, not Ted Cruz, as their second choice, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday. And more than half of Cruz’s backers suggested they would do the same with their man out of the race.
Asked whom they would like to win the GOP nomination, 43 percent of the 652 Republicans surveyed said they wanted Trump to emerge as the party’s choice in Cleveland, followed by 29 percent for Cruz and just 16 percent for Kasich, with 9 percent undecided.
Read More >>Trump and Cruz Split States, Setting Up Showdown in Wisconsin
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz split victories in Republican presidential contests in Arizona and Utah on Tuesday, setting up a showdown in Wisconsin to determine whether the billionaire is on his way to the party nomination or the effort to stop him has momentum.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton won the Arizona primary and Bernie Sanders dominated the caucuses in Utah and Idaho.
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