Donald Trump Defies Attacks From GOP Elite
GOP front-runner Donald Trump taking another step toward winning the Republican presidential nomination in contests in Arizona and Utah Tuesday, aiming to deal another setback to the party establishment’s lame Stop Donald Trump movement.
He has garnered a big lead in convention delegates who will pick the Republican nominee, defying weeks of attacks from members of the party establishment.
In Arizona, Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration message is popular and he leads in polls, while in Utah Trump lags in polls behind rival US Senator Ted Cruz (TX-R).
Arizona will award its entire slate of 58 delegates to the winner of Tuesday’s primary.
In Utah, the state’s 40 delegates will be awarded proportionately to the popular vote, unless a single candidate captures at least 50% of the vote, in which case that person will be awarded all the delegates.
The latest votes in the Presidential race come in the wake renewed global security fears following 2 attacks in Brussels early Tuesday at the airport and a metro train in the capital city that killed at least 34 people.
Donald Trump in a TV interview responded to the attacks by saying the United States and Western countries should strengthen their fight against Islamist militants.
“I would close up our borders to people until we figure out what’s going on,” Mr. Trump said a day after expressing skepticism about the US role in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and saying he would cut US funding for the alliance.
Tuesday’s Republican contests are the 1st since Marco Rubio (R-FL) dropped out. John Kasich is still in the race.
Monday, Donald Trump warned worried party leaders against efforts to deny him the nomination if he falls short of securing the 1,237 delegates needed ahead of the party’s July convention.
Donald Trump now has 678 delegates.
“I think it is going to be very hard for them to do,” Donald Trump said on TV referring to any effort to deny him the nomination if he falls short. “I have millions of votes more than anybody.”
In Arizona, Trump has the backing of former Republican Governor Jan Brewer and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 2 prominent supporters of a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
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