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Indianapolis (CNN) — Donald Trump says if he defeats Ted Cruz in Indiana, he'll seal the Republican presidential nomination. "Yes, it's over," Trump said on "Fox News Sunday" when host Chris Wallace asked if a win in the Hoosier State Tuesday would end Cruz's chances. Trump is the front-runner in Indiana, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll that shows him leading with 49% compared to 34% for Cruz and 13% for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Tuesday's primary has 57 delegates on the line. Trump pointed to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's endorsement of Cruz, noting that it only came...

Cruz Vows to ‘Go the Distance’ Ahead of Crucial Indiana Primary With a pivotal vote in Indiana this week, Ted Cruz is vowing to "go the distance," whatever the outcome of Tuesday's primary. "It is an incredibly important state," Cruz said of Indiana on ABC's "This Week." "We are competing hard. I hope we do well here. I can tell you I'm barnstorming the state, we're in a bus with my family, we're doing everything we can to earn the votes of the men and women in this state. We're going the distance. We're competing the entire distance.” Cruz, trailing...

Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead in the Republican presidential primary in Indiana, and a majority of GOP voters disapprove of the effort by underdogs Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich to coordinate strategy to block him, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist Poll finds.

Poll Reading: National poll: Half of Republicans support Trump

An Anti-Trump Protest in Costa Mesa California turned violent Thursday night. Trump supporters were assaulted, police vehicles destroyed, and roads shut down.

Nearly one-in-four voters say they will stay home or vote third party if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the major party presidential candidates. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump and Clinton tied at 38% each. But 16% say they would vote for some other candidate if the presidential election comes down to those two, while six percent (6%) would stay home. Only two percent (2%) are undecided given those options. (To see survey question wording...

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Last night the Cruz and Kasich camps formed the Cru-sich Alliance to stop Donald Trump. The two campaigns announced the development on Twitter. On Monday voters weighed in on this new backroom deal. A whopping 3% of MSNBC respondents said it would stop Donald Trump.

Jim Donnelly is a registered Republican who is disgusted. His lifelong party, he believes, has done little for anyone but the wealthy, the well-connected, and its own leaders. "I'm a strong Republican and this is the worst I've ever seen it," said Donnelly, 73, a retired factory production manager who lives in Lansdale. "In Washington, D.C., and in Harrisburg, the Republicans are only looking out for themselves. I don't see any Republican I like except for Donald Trump - because he says it the way it is." Donnelly has a lot of company in Pennsylvania. For decades, the state has...

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NEW YORK — The Latest on campaign 2016 as voters in New York cast their ballots in the state's primary (all times Eastern Daylight Time): 12:16 p.m. Donald Trump has picked up 12 delegates after Ted Cruz's campaign says the Texas senator will not request a recount in the Missouri primary. Trump won the March 15 primary by 1,965 votes. That is within the margin that would allow Cruz to request a recount. The 12 delegates are awarded to the statewide winner. Missouri has a total of 52 delegates. The other 40 were awarded according to results in individual congressional...

Trump Soars in Latest CA, NY, CT, MD, PA Polls Those who had written off Donald Trump need to reconsider things in light of recent polls in five states.Trump has soared in the latest polls in California, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. In no recent polls of upcoming state primaries did Trump lose ground.State by state, lets take a look. CaliforniaIn  the latest poll by YouGov, Trumps margin soared to 28 percentage points over Cruz, up from 9-10 percentage point in the two preceding polls.This was barely enough to tip the state to Trump’s category from Cruz in...

BINGHAMTON, United States, April 16, 2016 (BSS/AFP) - What do a New York lawyer, a business owner who calls himself a left-leaning Republican and a construction worker who elected Barack Obama have in common? They're voting for Donald Trump. None of them live on the breadline. They share surprisingly varied opinions. Yet they are profoundly frustrated -- with the economy, with career politicians and with perceptions of declining American prestige. The Republican frontrunner's supporters are often portrayed as undereducated, underearning whites. But in upstate New York, where Trump calls himself "the most popular person that's ever lived," the breadth of...

In the latest survey of likely Republican presidential primary voters, conducted by Optimus, a Republican pollster, businessman and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump garners 49% of all respondents, followed by Ohio Governor John Kasich witb 24%, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz rounds out the field with 13%. This sampling was the largest that we have seen in New York State during the primary season as a total of 14,201 respondents answered the call, and were surveyed between April 11-14, 2016. The margin of error for the survey is +/- 1% overall.

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Those Republicans united in opposition to Donald Trump’s candidacy pulled off the perfect victory in the April 5 Republican primary in Wisconsin. Through a combination of paid and earned media and successful rallying behind Sen. Ted Cruz as the alternate candidate—rather than splitting votes between him and Ohio Gov. John Kasich—the anti-Trump apparatus was able to keep the GOP front-runner’s support ceilinged to 35 percent, roughly the same number he was polling at when there were still six candidates in the race. It was a humiliating loss for Trump, and the one that finally taught him to at least marginally...

Donald Trump is poised to claim all of Maryland's 38 Republican delegates, if his dominant lead in a new Monmouth University poll out Wednesday is a reliable indicator.Nearly half of those likely to vote in the state's April 26 primary — 47 percent — said they would support Trump, while 27 percent said they will vote for Ohio Gov. John Kasich and 19 percent said they will support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.Trump leads in all congressional districts, though by larger margins in the two eastern districts bordering the Chesapeake Bay, where he leads Kasich 54 percent to 24 percent...

In Wisconsin, Ted Cruz managed to engineer a 25-point flip in the gap against Donald Trump with intense campaigning — and no small amount of help from Trump himself. Six days out from the New York primary, however, no such momentum has materialized. In the latest poll from Quinnipiac, Trump still dominates with a majority against both Cruz and John Kasich, and looks set to win most if not all of the delegates. The race is closer in the Democratic primary, but still static: ... Both primaries show a remarkable amount of stasis. As noted, this result is almost identical...

Thursday, March 31, 2016 Washington, DC —Barack Obama’s approval is at 46% this week Republican Primary Donald Trump’s lead among national Republicans registered voters remains solid, at 44% •Ted Cruz is increasing his 33% of national Republican voters. Cruz continues to trend up since Super Tuesday •John Kasich’s vote share has held solid over the last week at 19%

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - United States Marines based at the artillery firebase on the Makhmour front gave fire support to the joint coalition offensive on Islamic State (ISIS)-held villages. From the ‘Firebase Bell’ outpost the Marines reportedly fired their howitzer artillery guns in support of Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga troops as well as illumination rounds to help those troops identify ISIS positions during Thursday offensive against ISIS positions according to an anonymous senior US official cited by AP. The existence of the artillery base was revealed to the public last weekend when ISIS katyusha rocket fire killed a Marine there....