WASHINGTON (AP) – John Kasich is taking in stride the fact that he earned only five delegates in Tuesday’s five primaries, highlighting that he did better that rival Ted Cruz. Kasich took second in Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut, while Cruz bested Kasich in his native state of Pennsylvania. Cruz gained three delegates. Trump, by…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump’s rivals are running out of chances to stop him from clinching the GOP nomination by the end of the primaries. Trump won more than 90 percent of the delegates at stake in the five contests on Tuesday. If Trump wins the Indiana primary next week, he will have a majority…
NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump celebrated his overwhelming New York primary victory in the glitzy midtown Manhattan skyscraper that bears his name, boasting it was rewarding to get such a triumph from “the people who know me best.” Yet the one county he lost in the state was his home borough of Manhattan. Trump’s…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) – Texas Senator Ted Cruz won’t ask for a recount of his narrow loss to businessman Donald Trump in Missouri’s presidential primary. Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the campaign won’t request the recount. Cruz had faced an end-of-Tuesday deadline to contest the results of…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump – the billionaire businessman who’s the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination – insists he wants to “self-fund” his campaign. Yet there’s a prominent “donate” button on his campaign website. And he’s raised more than $9.5 million, including from about 200 people who’ve given the maximum allowed by law for…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has all but thrown in the towel in Wyoming ahead of Saturday’s Republican convention. A senior Trump adviser, Alan Cobb, says the billionaire businessman’s campaign made a conscious decision not to commit resources to Wyoming. Trump picked only up a single delegate in last month’s Wyoming county…
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Donald Trump was showing off his knowledge of all things Pennsylvania during a Pittsburgh rally when he asked a baffling question – about Penn State’s famed football coach. “How’s Joe Paterno?” Trump asked supporters Wednesday night. “Are we gonna bring that back?” Paterno died in January 2012 just months after being dismissed…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican businessman Donald Trump and former Democratic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been certified as the winners of Missouri’s presidential primaries. The results of the March 15 primaries were made official Tuesday. But the losing candidates still have seven days to request a recount. Trump led Texas Sen. Ted…
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey man is facing a fine for flying flags that support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Joseph Hornick thought West Long Branch police were responding to his reports that the flags proclaiming “Trump Make America Great Again” had been vandalized. Instead, he was ticketed for violating an…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – There’s a dilemma facing GOP senators this year. Many say they’ll support whoever becomes the Republican presidential nominee. But none of them are rushing to embrace Donald Trump. When Trump came to St. Louis last month for a raucous rally with thousands, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt was more than 130…