Cruz cannot win GOP nomination: Trump
US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said his rival Ted Cruz will not be able to win the party’s nomination.
“I’ve got 22 states. What does he have? Nine? He’s got no road to the nomination in my opinion,” Trump said in Watertown, New York on Saturday.
“After this weekend when he gets wiped out in New York – which he will – he no longer has a road to the nomination.”
The billionaire real estate mogul took aim at the Republican National Committee, saying the “rigged system” was seeking to deny him the nomination in spite of having more votes than any other candidate.
“The Republican National Committee better get going because they are going to have a tough July with that convention,” he said. “The system is all rigged.”
“We have a movement going on like they’ve never seen before,” Trump said of his campaign. “The only way they can stop this movement is if we don’t do a good job on Tuesday.”
His remarks came after Cruz won 14 of 14 Republican National Convention delegates in Wyoming on Saturday, a victory that marks the third time in three weeks that his campaign has beset Trump.
"If you don't want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, if you don't want to hand the general (election) to Hillary Clinton, which is what a Trump nomination does, then I ask you to please support the men and women on this slate," Cruz said, holding up a piece of paper of 14 recommended delegates.
Cruz is sparing no effort to prevent Trump from obtaining the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination at the July convention in Cleveland.
Last month, the Texas senator won nine delegates at county meetings, but Trump won just one delegate at those earlier sessions.
Before Saturday's convention, Trump and Cruz had 742 and 529 delegates respectively, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich having 143.
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