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Campaign 2016: Another Super Tuesday Straight Ahead
This is Ray Mossholder.
The next five states, all voting Tuesday, will undoubtedly make clear who can be taken seriously as their parties presidential nominee.
And here’s what the candidates are doing……
Donald Trump told his huge rally in Bridgeport, Connecticut, “You know, being presidential’s easy – much easier than what I have to do. When I’m out here talking to people, I’ve got to be different. Here, I have to rant and rave. I have to keep you people going. Otherwise, you’re going to fall asleep on me, right?……
Everything I say I’m going to do, folks, I’ll do, including building a wall along the southern border.”
The Donald has a new chief adviser, Paul Manafort. Thursday he met with top Republican officials (i.e. the good old boys) and told them that Mister Trump is known for his over-the-top persona and brashness. Manafort said “the part that he’s been playing is now evolving.”
Reports are that the Republican leadership is now bracing itself for what very well may be the inevitable – the nomination of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention this July in Cleveland.
Meanwhile, the Democrat frontrunner said Trump is trying to tone down and manipulate his positions because he wants the vote of both parties.
Hillary Clinton warned “Trump wants to go after every one of the rights we have. What he and Ted Cruz say about the world is not only offensive, it’s dangerous.”
At a roundtable event in New Haven, Rhode Island, she promised that if she is the president, women will get equal pay for equal work. She then paused and said “Equal pay – we shouldn’t be talking about it in 2016. It is almost embarrassing.”
Hillary didn’t go on to say that both she and President Obama have kept women working the same jobs as men at a much lower average.
Instead, Hillary said “It is way past time that we have a raise in the nationwide minimum wage above $7.25 an hour.”
Bernie Sanders was in Baltimore, Maryland, and he never runs out of a loud crowd of young people at his feet. Oh, and there was a woman cheering there too whose name you may know – Monica Lewinsky.
As in every speech, Bernie attacked big banks and described how he and Hillary Clinton disagree on everything from the minimum wage, which he believes should be fifteen dollars an hour across the nation as the lowest wage allowable.
Sanders also attacked Hillary’s support of “disastrous free trade agreements.” He said “The issue of free–trade agreements aren’t sexy, but we are seeing corporation after corporation shut down in the United States, throwing millions of workers out in the street, people who are earning a living wage.”
On Sunday’s NBC Meet The Press, explained in his own thinking why Hillary Clinton is ahead in the political race.
He said “Poor people don’t vote. That’s just a fact. That’s a sad reality of American society. And that’s what we have to transform.”
This coming Tuesday, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island and Connecticut will all be voting in primaries.
Ted Cruz calls this Super Tuesday “a pivotal day”.
Even so, Cruz spoke to a crowd of about 1000 at the Boone County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Indiana, this past Tuesday.
Indiana doesn’t vote until next month, but Cruz has his best shot there because of his evangelical roots.
Cruz promised the Hoosiers that he would protect religious liberty if he is president. He also warned that Donald Trump won’t.
Yesterday, with the wheeling and dealing allowed by the Karl Rove-ites, Ted Cruz won 19 of the 20 delegates available in Maine.
Donald Trump got the other delegate.
But that was just the beginning of a Cruz landslide. He also won 65 of the 94 delegates in Kentucky (and it’s possible that he one more than that, but 25 of the delegates haven’t revealed their choice yet.)
He got 1 of the 3 delegates in South Carolina’s sixth Congressional District. The other two delegates would not commit themselves but both leaned towards John Kasich.
Cruz won all 9 delegates in three Minnesota Congressional Districts.
And Utah gave Cruz 36 out of 37 national delegates. The one delegate who didn’t pledge for Cruz is at this moment uncommitted.
All of that looks great to Ted Cruz fans sitting in the stands and cheering loudly for him as he moves up toward the horse at the front of the pack.
But their enthusiasm may be short-lived.
Even though Cruz knows how to work the Republican system, polls show Donald Trump can still handily win the race.
There are 15 states left to vote, including Super Tuesday’s five states.
Even with all the good news for Cruz, Donald Trump has a Campaign 2016: Another Super Tuesday Straight Ahead lead and a great opportunity to win the roses.
Not only did the Donald bring to the eye of his needle 195 delegates in New York this past week, but he is ahead in the polls in all of the remaining 15 states, including far ahead in sunny California which, in itself, would give him 172 more delegates on June 7th.
Before Tuesday’s votes, remembering that it takes 1257 delegate votes for a first ballot nomination at the Republican convention –
Donald Trump has 845 delegates, Ted Cruz 559 delegates, Marco Rubio (who isn’t even running anymore) has 171 delegates, and John Kasich has 148.
There are also 57 uncommitted delegates; 9 delegates pledged to Doctor Ben Carson; 4 delegates pledged to Jeb Bush; and 1 delegate each pledged to Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, and Rand Paul.
This is Ray Mossholder from the Campaign 2016 news desk in Fort Worth, Texas, reminding you that “it ain’t over till it’s over”.
Campaign 2016: Another Super Tuesday Straight Ahead
Campaign 2016: Another Super Tuesday Straight Ahead