West Virginia looks perfect for Donald Trump: a struggling working-class state filled with the types of voters who have backed him elsewhere and could deliver one of his biggest victories.
But a sweep there might not matter. That’s because as many as 34 delegates — the entire contingent — may be free to back whomever they want at the Republican National Convention.
Much the same is true in Pennsylvania, home to a hotly contested April 26 primary, where there are 54 uncommitted delegates. Other states and territories, from Colorado to Wyoming to Guam, will also send squads of unbound representatives.
These are the swing voters of the GOP nominating contest, nearly 200 activists and elected leaders beholden to nothing except their personal judgment and empowered to make or break candidacies. (Read more from “These 200 People Could Decide Whether Donald Trump Gets the GOP Nomination” HERE)
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Republican presidential contender Donald Trump’s frequent and sustained use of his nickname for rival Ted Cruz seems to have paid off, as thousands shouted “Lyin’ Ted” in an intense chant during the front-runner’s first New York rally Wednesday.
Following Cruz’s major victory in Wisconsin Tuesday night, Trump sought to knock the wind out of his sails, reminding his 10,000-person audience in Bethpage, New York, about the Texas senator’s slam against “New York values” earlier this year.
“Do you remember, during the debate, when he started to lecture me on New York values, like we’re no good?” Trump said. “And I started to talk to him about the World Trade Center, the bravery — the incredible bravery of everybody, the police, our firemen, everybody.”
Trump continued, telling the crowd that he told Cruz about New York’s “incredible” police and firefighters and the Empire State’s “unbelievable” construction workers . . .
Seconds later, the large audience of supporters broke out in an epic chant: “Lyin’ Ted! Lyin’ Ted! Lyin’ Ted!” (Read more from “Check out the Epic Chant That Broke out During Trump’s First Rally in New York” HERE)
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Over the past year, Donald Trump has gained a reputation for being a prodigious campaigner, making back to back appearances in different states and hosting sold out rallies most places he goes.
So now it comes as a surprise to many that Donald Trump appears to be clearing his schedule and skipping several previously announced events, possibly marking a shift in campaign focus.
The Trump campaign announced today they would be canceling an arranged press conference set to take place this Friday at Trump’s Los Angeles golf course. The California primary does not occur until June 7, however, the state carries a whopping 172 delegates, making it a significant prize for any GOP candidate hoping to take the nomination.
In addition, Trump will also be skipping the Colorado GOP State Convention – set to occur this Saturday – which will select the state’s Republican delegates. As the likelihood of a contested convention becomes more possible, Trump will need to bring more delegates to his side, making these sort of events beneficial for every candidate.
Instead, Trump plans to focus on his home state of New York, which will host its GOP primary on April 19.
“Mr. Trump is working extremely hard, both on the campaign, which remains his primary focus, and on the multibillion-dollar company he is still running,” wrote campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks. “Mr. Trump has rescheduled his California trip and will be campaigning in New York. He looks forward to returning to California in the weeks ahead.” (Read more from “Trump Just Made a Major Totally Unexpected Campaign Move – Could Have BIG Repercussions” HERE)
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Sen. Ted Cruz’s overwhelming victory in Wisconsin on Tuesday makes it all but impossible for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump to win the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination ahead of the RNC convention in Cleveland.
Trump currently leads the GOP field with 743 delegates. He would need to win 58.9 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to obtain the simple majority necessary.
A number of the states remaining award delegates proportionally. The bulk of delegates in one critical upcoming state, Pennsylvania, aren’t officially bound to any candidate. The fight for California’s massive 172 delegates will be fought largely in each of the state’s 54 Congressional Districts.
As a result, Breitbart News estimates that Donald Trump will end the primary portion of the nomination fight with 1164 delegates, 74 short of the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the nomination on the first ballot. This estimate assumes Trump’s performance in upcoming contests is consistent with the results prior to Wisconsin.
In other words, it is a static estimate, assuming no great change in the trajectory, tone, or focus of the campaigns. It isn’t based on any future missteps, like those experienced by the Trump campaign ahead of the Wisconsin primary. Our assumption is, in many respects, the most optimistic for the Trump campaign. Because of this, it underscores the steep challenge Donald Trump faces heading into the 4th Quarter of the primary season. (Read more from “Fallout: Donald Trump Will Fall 50-100 Delegates Short of 1,237 Needed to Clinch Nomination” HERE)
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The Trump campaign stated on Wednesday that Sen. Ted Cruz is really just a tool of the Bush family, and that the Republican establishment will abandon him at the convention in Cleveland.
The Trump campaign issued a statement on Tuesday night following their candidate’s defeat to the Texas senator in Wisconsin saying, “Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet— he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump.”
Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson picked up on this line of reasoning on Wednesday morning, while appearing on Fox News’ American Newsroom.
“The Bush people are now running Sen. Cruz’s campaign — Neil Bush, who’s spent millions of dollars invested with Common Core, and all of these other special interest groups like Goldman Sachs, like hedge fund managers,” she said, referring to Jeb Bush’s brother, who joined Cruz’s finance team last month. “This is going to be a very serious problem if Sen. Cruz continues to go down this path and then neither Trump or Cruz becomes the nominee.”
The current delegate count following Cruz’s victory over Trump in the Badger State is Trump 743, Cruz 517, and Gov. John Kasich 143. There are 882 delegates yet to be allocated. Trump needs 494 to get to the 1,237 required to secure the nomination, while Cruz needs 720.
Pierson told Fox News that “many in the establishment” have made clear they do not intend to support Cruz in a contested convention. “When you have the establishment backing you so reluctantly to the point to where you have people endorsing you that said that you would get murdered on the Senate floor and nobody would care and the difference between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is being stabbed or shot, their loyalty is not with Sen. Cruz,” said the spokeswoman, referring to past statements made by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has endorsed Cruz. (Read more from “Trump Just Unleashed a Shocking New Allegation About Who’s REALLY Behind Cruz’s Campaign” HERE)
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By Gerry Urbanek. According to a new report, Republican front-runner Donald Trump privately met with nearly a dozen special interest groups during a meeting in Washington, D.C., last week.
The New York Times reported that Trump met with a variety of individuals, including special interest representatives, lobbyists, and the chief executive of a major airline trade organization.
Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, told the New York Times that the meeting was arranged by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who invited people he has “great respect” for.
According to Hicks, “Mr. Trump didn’t know them, but it was a brief meeting that took place right after the lengthy foreign policy team meeting.” The meeting occurred last Thursday at the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington.
The Times reported that Nicholas E. Calio — who worked for President George H.W. Bush in legislative affairs and as a former lobbyist — was one of the members present at the meeting. Calio serves as the chief executive for Airlines for America, a large air travel trade organization. (Read more from “New Report Just Made Big Claim About ‘Secret Meeting’ Trump Had That He Won’t Want His Fans to See” HERE)
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Report: Trump Secretly Met Special Interest Groups
By Mark Hensch. GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump privately met with representatives from nearly a dozen special interest groups in Washington, D.C., last week, according to a new report.
Trump huddled with a range of individuals, including a veteran lobbyist and the chief executive of a major airline trade organization, The New York Times reported . . .
Trump also reportedly spoke with Juanita Duggan, the president and chief executive of the National Federation of Independent Business. The former aide for the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations was also an official with the tobacco giant Philip Morris Companies.
Trump has frequently derided the power wielded by wealthy special interests, arguing that their influence often runs counter to voters.
The outspoken billionaire has repeatedly touted his vast personal wealth, charging that it gives him freedom from lobbyist money. (Read more from “Report: Trump Secretly Met Special Interest Groups” HERE)
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Legal German immigrant Sabine Durden lost her only son Dominic in 2012 when an unlicensed, illegal alien driver hit and killed him. Now, Durden says Donald Trump is the 2016 presidential candidate who has brought attention to her son’s death and renewed her hope.
The illegal alien responsible for her son’s death had prior DUI convictions yet remained in the United States illegally . . .
Durden first spoke with Breitbart News at the July 2014 protests against illegal immigration in Murrietta, California along with her fiance Anthony Coulter.
“This [illegal] is not a racial word,” Coulter said in a Breitbart News video. “So then who speaks for me?” Coulter continued, “I’m speaking for him [Dominic Durden]. African Americans really, I love us, as we’ve been duped too. And I’m not angry at us. We’re not here, because we’ve been duped also.”
Sabine Durden and a host of other families and friends and supporters of families who have lost loved ones to the actions of foreign nationals illegally present in the United States held a National Day of Remembrance event that Breitbart News covered in November of that same year. No other media appeared to cover the event from the location. (Read more from “Grieving Mother Tells Donald Trump: ‘You Are My Hero, You Saved My Life'” HERE)
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It’s no secret that many in the GOP establishment don’t want constitutional conservative Ted Cruz or reality TV actor Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee for the presidency. There has been talk of the Party attempting to slip in a new candidate if neither of the current candidates reaches the magic number of 1,237 needed to secure the nomination outright.
Ohio Governor John Kasich, who has pushed the notion that Jesus Christ would support government taking over one-sixth of the economy while forcibly making Americans buy into Obamacare, believes that he stands a chance at being the nominee in a contested convention. He believes he could win over support despite so far winning only his home state of Ohio. But, according to POLITICO, although RINO insiders believe the nominee will be someone other than Trump or Cruz, it will definitely not be Kasich.
One person, who spoke with POLITICO anonymously, said that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has a 54-percent chance of being the Republican nominee. This unnamed person reportedly has “an enviable prediction record” and said that Ryan is “the most conservative, least establishment member of the establishment.”
Although Paul Ryan denies that he is interested in being the GOP nominee for the presidency, those are, according to another source, simply calculated words in the same vein as when he claimed he didn’t want to be Speaker, though he really did and jockeyed for the position.
A friend close to Ryan, again unnamed, spoke about a speech that Paul Ryan gave last month in which he said the tone and tenor in politics needs to be raised. (Read more from “RINO Insiders Weigh in on Who Will Be the Nominee – It’s Not Trump or Cruz” HERE)
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While North Dakota is a most unlikely place for the Republican presidential campaign to take a critical turn, it nonetheless delivered an apparent setback over the weekend to front-runner Donald Trump in the behind-the-scenes battle for delegates, as Ted Cruz declared victory at the northern border state’s GOP convention.
Like most states where Cruz has claimed victory, North Dakota is relatively light on delegates. Trump’s wins in delegate-rich primary states have kept the billionaire businessman well ahead, and the events in Fargo won’t change that.
But the North Dakota showdown speaks to the organizational headwinds Trump is facing – something he’s also dealing with in Wisconsin, which holds its primary Tuesday and where Cruz is polling in front. And if nothing else, the North Dakota convention results could put Cruz in a better position at the party’s July convention if the nomination is still open going into Cleveland.
“I’m thrilled to have the vote of confidence of Republican voters in North Dakota who delivered such a resounding victory today,” Cruz said in a statement. “Whether we defeat Donald Trump before the convention or at it, I’m energized to have the support of the vast majority of North Dakota delegates.”
The vote in North Dakota was not a traditional primary or caucus, but a convention. Delegates chosen over the weekend through an internal party process will not be “bound” to any candidate. For that reason, there technically was no winner from the weekend’s gathering. (Read more from “Trump Faces New Headaches in Behind-Scenes Battle for Delegates” HERE)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Friday that because Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “controlled by the people that give him money,” he will support the controversial Obamatrade legislation after the election and implement Obama’s trade agenda if elected president.
“Now, he’s going to vote for it again,” said Trump, targeting Cruz, who has received the support of a wide range of GOP establishment supporters seeking to block Trump’s path to the GOP presidential nomination. “He’s going to vote for it again. He’s just waiting for after the election. He will vote for it –because the people who give him campaign contributions want it. He will vote for it right after the election.”
Cruz aligned himself with House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2015 in supporting the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which is a change in the procedures Congress uses to ratify trade deals.
TPA lowers the vote threshold for passage of a trade deal out of the Senate to a simple majority. It also eliminates the ability for Congress to amend any such trade deals. Approving TPA would allow other parts of the Obamatrade agenda to move through Congress.
“Ted Cruz is so far behind me in trade that he put a phony ad talking about how he’s going to get tough on trade,” Trump said Friday in an interview with Breitbart News. “Number one, he’s in favor of the Trans Pacific Partnership — which is going to be worse than NAFTA. And it’s going to absolutely destroy businesses in our country and businesses in Wisconsin.” (Read more from “Trump Just Exposed 1 Big Thing Ted Cruz Did, and Will ‘Do Again’ as President — Many Won’t Like It” HERE)
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