Hillary, Carly and the 5pcĪs mentioned earlier, Senator Cruz has chosen former presidential hopeful and ex-Hewlett Packard boss Carly Fiorina as his VP running mate. Senator Sanders has started to make his list of demands clear as the Democratic Party tries to bring him into line behind Mrs Clinton who has the Democratic nomination within tantalising reach. While the "political revolution" is looking a little Berned out, Senator Sanders's team has shifted focus West to the California primary. Mrs Clinton won four states on Tuesday night and while he says he'll stay in all the way until the Democratic convention he's started putting off field staff around the traps, which probably says something about a) his prospects and b) his budget, given that much of his campaign is funded via individual donations of $27. He's still around but it's a struggle for the Bern. Here's how the polls currently look so it could be tight.īernie Sanders. If it fails Senator Cruz and Mr Kasich are going to look like manipulative schemers (they kind of do already) and it will be a big turning point. If it works Mr Trump will be denied a big bloc of delegates. Mr Kasich will sit out Tuesday's winner take all primary in Indiana (57 delegates).Īlthough he's not actually directing his supporters to vote for Senator Cruz (which is a little confusing), I guess we can assume that the strategy is that some of his voters will gravitate that way drawing support away from the frontrunner. Took zip delegates on Tuesday and has now initiated a risky strategy with Mr Kasich to prevent Mr Trump getting to 1,237. As this NPR piece confidently states "barring something unforseen Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee". The former secretary of state now has 2,165 of 2,383 needed for the nomination. It's all part of Mr Trump's (somewhat stilted) attempt at being more "presidential". That's something he's done only once before during the campaign. Mr Trump insulted a large swathe of the population again this week with his comments about women (more on that shortly) but maybe the most shocking thing he did was speak from a teleprompter in a foreign policy address. She now has 88 per cent of the delegates she needs for the nomination (that's including those pesky super delegates). Oh, and remember the Democrats? Hillary Clinton has been conducting what looks suspiciously like a victory lap.ĭon't get the wrong idea, Bernie Sanders is still hanging in there but the path is ever narrowing and getting close to being a dead end. Its 172-delegate primary is going to be a scrap like none before it. The fabled California primary will offer more than pina coladas at the beach bar this year. There are 502 delegates still up for grabs so hold onto your hats people - it's going to go down to the wire. He needs 283 delegates to get to the magic number of 1,237 to take the nomination and to avoid that messy contested convention business. His path to the nomination is now looking more than possible. It was no surprise in that recent polls had indicated that the frontrunner would do well and indeed he did, taking all 109 available delegates. More on that later, but for a little context it followed Donald Trump's clean sweep of five eastern primaries on Tuesday night. Senator Cruz also announced a vice presidential running mate, even though he's about 3.5 million votes and 400 delegates behind Mr Trump and cannot win unless there's a contested convention. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, "dangerous" and a "reckless asshole." And he wrote that former President Donald Trump "incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, perpetuated by the bullshit he'd been shoveling since he lost a fair election the previous November.It's been another week bordering on the bizarre on the campaign trail.Īppearing increasingly desperate, Republican rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich joined forces in a kind of "let's nobble the Donald" alliance whereby they'll take turns sitting out of various primaries to avoid splitting the anti Trump vote. I regret that I didn't fight against it."īoehner takes aim at his own party throughout the book, saving his most scathing criticism for members of the right-wing Tea Party. "I was on board at the time," Boehner wrote. He added that Clinton likely committed perjury, but that "lying about an affair to save yourself from embarrassment isn't the same as lying about an issue of national security." It often indicates a user profile.Ĭlinton's impeachment didn't end up helping the GOP in the midterms - the party lost five House seats in 1998.īoehner concedes that he supported the impeachment effort - the House ultimately impeached Clinton on two charges before the Senate acquitted him - but now regrets it. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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