Posted on 04/28/2016 3:26:47 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, at a Fox News-hosted town hall in Indianapolis, on Wednesday blasted rival Ted Cruz’s decision to announce a running mate even though he’s losing the nomination race – calling it a “waste of time.”
The billionaire businessman responded to Cruz’s campaign curveball, while also elaborating on a foreign policy speech he delivered earlier in the day, at the forum hosted by Greta Van Susteren.
“I think it’s really a waste of time, honestly,” Trump said of Cruz’s decision to name former presidential candidate and ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina as his VP pick. Of the race, Trump said, “It should be over.”
Cruz earlier acknowledged it was “unusual” to name a VP choice so early, but defended the decision. He claimed “nobody is getting to 1,237 delegates,” the number needed to clinch the nomination, and voters should “know what [they] will get.”
After Trump swept five states across the Northeast on Tuesday, the three remaining GOP candidates are looking next to Indiana’s primary on May 3 as a pivotal point in the race – one that can show whether Trump turns his winning streak into irreversible momentum, or whether Cruz and John Kasich still have a shot at preventing him from clinching the nomination before July.
But Trump cast Cruz’s ticket roll-out Wednesday as a bid to distract from bad headlines, calling it “awfully early” for such an announcement.
“You have to first get the nomination. … He has zero chance,” he said.
Trump declined to go into detail about his own potential running mate choices. “I have a lot of great people. I just don’t like to talk about it right now,” he said.
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Right after Heidi shows off her selection for the Oval Office drapes.
Your reply is very well-crafted and beautifully written. Thank you for posting it.
Cruz and Kasich have been mathematically eliminated, any votes for them are wasted ones.
Meanwhile, the Minnesota Twins, currently in the basement of MLB standings, have announced their pitching rotation for the World Series.
castraTED
LOL!
interesting (!) but nothing to do with my post. let all of us have a voice in the primary process. further on my subject, trying to truncate the process reminds me of, well, Obama. he is the master of the cramdown.
not until Trump hits 1237.
That's an interesting observation and it points back directly to Cruz's father who plays a key role in communicating with the faith based community, but generally flies under the media radar in this campaign.
Cruz naming a running mate while mathematically elliminated reminds me of the “Seal of the Office of the President-Elect” back in 2008.2
Trump won every county and every congressional district in FIVE states!
He’s not an incumbent politician.
That is a record for The Guinness Book!
Ted’s got bad taste. Actually, they both have bad taste.
Not worth $500,000, or $5,000 or $500 or $50 ...
Ah, Teddy boy, that is the problem ... you have already shown the voters what they will get and your miserable returns are the result. RejecTED!
Well, at least she didn’t come on stage and repeat her tired “status quo” line five times in the first 2 minutes and then sing a creepy children’s song, cuz, no... Wait... No... Yes... No... Wait... Yes, yes she did do that. Yes, she did. I’m sorry.
She is still better looking than Hillary Clinton.
Did they really do that?
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