Ted Cruz on Saturday won all of the 14 Wyoming at-large delegates that were up for grabs at the state's convention, another sweep for the Texas Senator in the Western states. Less than 500 elected county delegates met in Casper, Wyoming early Saturday morning to elect the last 14 up for grabs delegates. Cruz was the only candidate to address the convention in person, urging the assembled crowd to back Cruz supporters for the delegate slate in order to stop both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. "If you don't want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, if you dont want to hand the general election to Hillary Clinton, in which is what a Trump nomination will do, then I ask you to please support the men and women on this slate," Cruz said, as he held up a piece of paper that showed a ballot of the 14 delegates supporting him. "The state of Wyoming right, now the entire country -- its eyes are on this state." …show more content…
A Trump-delegate, Claire Powers spoke in behalf of Trump and ask the crowd who do they prefer between the two top rivals. “Who do we want, Cruz or Trump?” Powers said before the crowd interrupted her by shouting back - "Cruz!" The success in Wyoming for Cruz now means that 23 out of the state's 29 delegates are bound to vote for the Texas Senator on the first ballot. Saturday’s sweep for Cruz follows his victory last month in Wyoming, when he scored 9 of 12 available delegates at county conventions. Trump and Marco Rubio each won one delegate last month in Wyoming. Four delegates are uncommitted and 14 alternates delegates are divided with seven for Cruz and the rest of the other seven are uncommitted. The victory for Cruz demonstrates how his grassroots efforts and campaign have organized strategic movement to prevent Trump from garnishing the 1,237 delegates needed before the July GOP convention as well possibly causing a contested convention to
As Super Tuesday fast approaches, record numbers of early voters in several states have many candidates and their campaigns excited about their chances of winning. Republicans have held their last debate and are busy on the campaign trail to try and garner any support that might still be unpledged. The Democrats have just finished their primary in South Carolina and are pouring over the data to see what it might suggest for the major contests that loom overhead. All the while, millions of dollars have been spent on television ads in states such as Texas, Virginia, and Georgia to try and sway voters before the polls and caucus sites open for voters on Super Tuesday. These are just a few of the countless tasks that have to be done in order to come out with a victory on Super Tuesday. The only question that remains is, who will win? To find out, let’s begin with the Democrats.
The Democratic Party was facing a difficult election in 1984 against an extremely popular president, Ronald Reagan, whom for four years had dominated the political United States. In his “Keynote Address to the Democratic Convention” in 1984, Mario Cuomo, the Italian-American New York governor, addresses the strain a Republican president has put on the nation’s lower and middle classes. He mentions President Reagan’s view of the nation from his “Shining City on a Hill”, a phrase which the President used many times throughout his career to describe the prosperity of America’s upper class. Cuomo challenges President Reagan’s beliefs that America is thriving with allusions to the lives of lower class Americans, and states that the nation is instead
majority of the states, and those that were on the ballot in a majority of
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won 64% of the seats using the first past the post system. In a truly
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