Trump, Clinton dominate ahead of Pennsylvania primary

The “unity ticket” of candidates, which the Trump and Kasich campaigns agreed to, would have assured that delegate slots went to supporters of each candidate on a proportional basis-in other words, to correspond with the candidates’ levels of support in the ME caucuses back in March. Democrats and Republicans have been energized by self-described outsider candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, respectively.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton has mobilized a coalition of IN lawmakers and community leaders for support and Vermont Sen. Ted Cruz, meanwhile, abandoned the states voting Tuesday and instead campaigned in IN, which votes May 3. He says he hasn’t given speeches on Wall Street behind closed doors for $225,000 a speech.

There are 172 delegates up for grabs in Tuesday’s Republican primary contests.

Clinton leads in polling in the northeastern states, and if she sweeps all five Sanders will be hard pressed to exit the race.

As Donald Trump spoke in a crowded hangar on the border of Maryland and Pennsylvania, he sounded like the Trump we’ve heard for months. “I [feel] strongly about Ted Cruz and plan to support him all the way”, he wrote in an email.

“Not at all”, Clinton said.

Trump even flew in New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has endorsed the billionaire businessman, to attend the meeting with his fellow Republican chief executive.

A movement like “Never Trump” is entirely dependent on momentum and the money that goes along with it. Allowing Trump to roll through April nearly uncontested – no part of the “Never Trump” group spent any money on TV in NY – looks like a major strategic mistake in retrospect.

“I only care about the first ballot”.

“He has to start filling it in with substance – and that’s going to be the challenge”, King said.

Barely 36 hours before voters in five state head to the polls, Trump lashed out at Cruz, accusing him of “bribing” all-important delegates as part of the convoluted primary system for choosing the Democratic and Republican nominee.

Trump deployed former neurosurgeon Ben Carson to woo Maine Republicans, while Cruz sent former businesswoman Carly Fiorina in his absence. “And it is also true that in the last general election we had in 2014, 63% of the American people didn’t vote”. And we have listings of delegates and their choices in our stories at www.yorkdispatch.com. “Do we want to be behind a campaign that is based on yelling, screaming and cursing and insulting?” And he had planned to campaign there Tuesday, with a town hall and gathering in Indianapolis to watch the results of Tuesday’s primaries.

“Is he going to be involved in settings that are not rally oriented?’ And that was the context I was talking about”, Manafort said. “I never said Trump was going to change any of his positions”, Mr Manafort insisted on Fox News on Sunday.

Though Trump is now the only GOP candidate who can clinch the party’s presidential nomination before the July convention, it’s far from clear that Republicans want to work with Trump.

He said: “The campaign’s evolving and transitioning, and so am I”.

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz downplayed tensions between Sanders and Clinton, whose rivalry has become increasingly nasty in recent weeks.

“I’m not going to tell you that it’s easy, but I think we do”, Sanders told Tapper of his chances.