Skymonster
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Imagion; president Trump.
By that time we could have Boris as PM if we vote to come out of the EU - now there's an interesting combination!!
Imagion; president Trump.
By that time we could have Boris as PM if we vote to come out of the EU - now there's an interesting combination!!
He was dividing the anti-Trump vote and clearly had no chance, so good riddance. Cruz happily won't get the nomination either, but now Rubio voters can back him to stop Trump cleaning up all those delegates. This could lead to a brokered convention, and Kasich is likely to come up the victor if that does happen. He's not as bad as Cruz or Trump, and isn't being attacked like Rubio was.
It's slim, but it's the only chance we've got...
It is all very nice. The Republican party seems to block the choice of Obama for the Supreme Court. If this should be true, than that Court will be idle till say March 2017. And what kind of choice will Hillary or Trump come up with?!
Politics in the USA it not to make things better in the country, but to frustrate the other party.
I am doubtful that a brokered convention will work. If Drumpf goes to the Republican convention with the highest number of delegates (but not a clear majority) and doesn't walk away as the Republican candidate there will be an almighty row that will probably split the Republican Party. After all Drumpf isn't the kind of guy who would go quietly, espically if he is cheated out of the nomination.
There's an idea being floated in some circles that the GOP may decide to conceed the presidency, by nominating their own candidate at the convention to stop Drumpf/Cruz. This would split the crazy part of the GOP base away from the party forever (they'd never forgive the GOP), but it may leave a functioning, sensible conservative GOP, which would also push the Democrats leftward. It would be a fairly long-term process though, and it would basically guarantee the White House for the Democrats for 2016, 2020 and 2024, but then the GOP loses the crazies and religious nutjobs, and regains respectability. Who knows.
US presidential front-runners, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, have continued their winning streaks, taking Arizona.
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If Mr Trump falls short in the delegate count, the party could hold a brokered or contested convention where party leaders, not voters, choose the nominee.
However, that scenario is looking less likely as Mr Trump continues to win states.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Trump reiterated his plan to ban Muslims from travelling to US and suggested that the US should torture terrorism suspects.
Trump moves ever closer to getting his tiny, tiny hands on the GOP nomination.
Trump and Clinton the big winners yesterday, no major shocks, and fewer states to provide such shocks.
Not sure how generally known is Hillary Clinton's acceptance of Donald Trump's invitation to the latest of his weddings in 2005. Says it all about the pair of them.
I'm not sure what you think it says, but to me it says that two rich/famous people knew each other enough to be invited to a wedding, which likely had thousands of people. It doesn't say anything about their politics.
Well, I'm surprised, I did not expect Trump to actually get the nomination. The Democratic race has turned rather nasty recently, and it seems they could be in real trouble if Sanders doesn't tell his supporters to vote Clinton.
Have you seen how the board is lopsided? A bit like Trump.
Clinton has had 25 years of Republicans trying to tear her down, so it's not surprising her unfavourables are so high, what's surprising is that she's still standing at all. That says a lot about her perseverance. Sanders's recent behaviour certainly has me feeling glad he's not going to win.
Indeed. Sanders is also still claiming that he stands a chance, trying to flip the superdelegates to overrule the 3+ million more votes she has. Pretty desperate