The question of whether business tycoon Donald Trump clinches the 1,237 pledged first-ballot delegate votes needed to win at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July will only be decided in delegate-rich California.
The California primary will kick off this weekend as the California Republican Party holds its annual election-year state convention just minutes from San Francisco Airport, in the small Bay Area city of Burlingame.
Former congressman Robert Walker of Pennsylvania, a supporter of Governor John Kasich’s presidential campaign, appeared on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM with host Stephen K. Bannon to discuss Kasich’s “strong” chances in the Keystone State and his alliance he formed with fellow candidate Ted Cruz.
Despite growing anticipation that Donald Trump will take his presidential campaign to the Central Valley, he will not visit Fresno, the region’s de facto capital, when he attends the California Republican Party meeting in Burlingame, in the Bay Area, this weekend.
The presidential campaigns of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich made no mention of the California primary in announcing Sunday night that they have agreed to split several remaining states in the Republican primary in a joint effort to keep Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination.
Organizing early in California and integrating grassroots conservatives into Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign will serve the Texas Senator well at the Republican National Convention in July, Cruz national spokesman Ron Nehring told SiriusXM listeners and guest host Breitbart Washington Political
Our Principles PAC, aimed at taking down GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, argues even after Trump’s victory in New York on Tuesday, the billionaire “faces a nearly impossible test of securing the necessary delegates to win the GOP nomination.”
Longtime Eagles singer and guitarist Joe Walsh dropped out of a planned performance in Cleveland, Ohio, after he learned that the concert was for the Republican National Convention.
A Ted Cruz delegate in Texas has set up a GoFundMe account to help her get to the Republican National Convention. She wants to be nominated as a national delegate so she can run for the Rules Committee. “We must not implode our own Party by bringing in a third nominee,” she told Breitbart Texas.
Pollster Kellyanne Conway, president of the pro-Ted Cruz Super PAC “Keep the Promise,” tells Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM her views on the results of the New York primary, where Cruz’s rival Donald Trump won a resounding victory.
Former Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain is skipping the Republican National convention this year as he faces a tough primary challenge from former State Senator Kelli Ward.
A confident Donald Trump will make just one more appearance before New York’s GOP presidential primary. He’ll be in Buffalo, New York Monday evening.
If the California primary, scheduled for June 7, were held today, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump would likely win 106 delegates — 93 from congressional districts, plus 13 for winning statewide — while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) would win 66.
The Washington, D.C. Republican delegate who said that she would support Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump is her party’s nominee actually lives in Virginia.
Ted Cruz won the 14 remaining Wyoming delegates at the state party convention in Casper on Saturday. Candidate Cruz spoke directly to Republicans at this weekend’s Wyoming state Republican convention where the 14 delegates were selected. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, has warned off members of the RNC from making any changes to the Republican National Convention rules at next week’s spring meeting of the 168-member organization, Breitbart News has learned.
Stephen Miller, senior policy advisor to Donald Trump, joined host Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about the home stretch of the delegate race between his candidate and Senator Ted Cruz.
As Republican campaigns scramble to assembly delegate lists by May 8, Democrats on Wednesday passed the first of several key deadlines in the delegate selection process before the California primary. Those Democrats interested in representing their congressional district at the Democratic National Convention July 25-28 in Philadelphia — some 317 (58%) of the party’s 548 delegates from California had to file a form by Wednesday.
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, talked about the possibility of an open Republican National Convention with host Stephen K. Bannon of Breitbart News Daily on Monday morning.
Evan Osnos writes that Donald Trump “may seek to shape the outcome” of the Republican National Convention by priming his supporters to riot.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, with the help of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, prevented Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) from slating his preferred delegates in Michigan over the weekend.
Ted Cruz wrapped up the remaining 13 Colorado delegates on Saturday at the state Republican Party convention, winning every pledged Republican delegate from Colorado to the Republican National Convention.
Donald Trump Jr. joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Republican Establishment’s efforts to block his father from winning the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has canceled a California visit planned for Friday as he scrambles to protect his delegates from being poached by rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Cruz, meanwhile, is continuing with plans to visit the Golden State in the next few days, and is scheduled to rally with local activists in San Diego on Monday.
North Dakota’s only Congressman, Republican Kevin Cramer, tells Breitbart News that if his state had held a caucus or primary this year, he thinks voters would have chosen Donald Trump. He added that the “tone-deafness” of party leadership is “an electoral problem.”
Drudge Report editor and Washington Times columnist Charles Hurt tells Breitbart News Daily that Ted Cruz is doing the “work” of the Republican establishment “to prevent Donald Trump from clinching the nomination.”
Political strategist Pat Caddell, who hosts the Political Insiders roundtable for Fox News at 7:30 PM Eastern on Sunday nights, joined host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to look at the state of the 2016 primaries on both sides of the aisle.
Former Senator John Sununu (R-NH), a supporter of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s bid for the 2016 Republican nomination, appeared on Breitbart News Daily Tuesday morning to discuss the future of Kasich’s campaign after a disappointing showing in Tuesday’s crucial Wisconsin
If the California primary were held today, Donald Trump would win 94 of the state’s 172 delegates, while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) would win 72, and Ohio governor John Kasich would win 6, according to Breitbart California analysis.
Lee Stranahan, the lead investigative journalist for the Breitbart News network, predicts that the GOP is headed for “a Civil War inside the Republican national convention and another kind of Civil War, a race war, outside.”
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters on Monday that the establishment’s idea to “parachute in some white knight” other than himself or Donald Trump is nothing but a “fevered pipe dream” that would cause a “revolt.”
Donald Trump is the winner of Arizona’s Republican presidential primary contest, but the Ted Cruz team is campaigning hard in that state — and others — to convince delegates to support him if the Republican National Convention moves beyond a first ballot.
Sen. Ted Cruz scooped up another 18 of his preferred delegates on Saturday in North Dakota, bringing the the 2016 Republican presidential candidate’s weekend delegate haul to a tentative 24.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz gained six delegates in Colorado on Saturday.
We’ve heard a lot about how the GOP Establishment is making elaborate plans to steal the nomination from Donald Trump (and Ted Cruz) at the Republican National Convention. (See, for example, Ned Ryun and Pat Caddell’s interviews with Breitbart News Daily last week.)
Donald Trump’s spokesperson, Katrina Pierson, told Breitbart News Saturday that Wisconsin is “the last competitive state at this level.” If that is what the Trump campaign truly believes, the frontrunner is in trouble in California.
Ned Ryun, CEO of grassroots conservative organization American Majority, tells Breitbart News Daily he thinks the Establishment has a plan to keep the GOP nomination away from both Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz.
The Republican National Convention (RNC) launched ConventionFacts.gop in order to prepare the public for what to expect at a contested national convention. The website outlines party rules for delegates and the process that occurs if no GOP candidate reaches the threshold of
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) demonstrated the organizational heft of his California machine Thursday morning, speaking to over one hundred of his proposed slate of delegates at the Hotel Irvine in Orange County.
Political strategist Pat Caddell, a mainstay of the “Political Insiders” roundtable on Fox Report Sunday, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about the state of the Republican primary race.
