Trump looking to push out rivals ‘hanging on by their fingernails’ with big Indiana win while Cruz vows he is ‘in for the distance’ and Clinton aims to pad delegate lead as Hoosiers hit the polls Tuesday
Texas senator says he’s ‘competing to the end’
57 delegates at stake in Indiana as Trump and Cruz criss-cross the state in final push
Sanders is back in the state after bemoaning Clinton’s big lead with super delegates even in states he carried
Trump leads Cruz by 15 points – 49 percent to 34 percent – in the latest Wall Street Journal / NBC poll
By Geoff Earle, Deputy Us Political Editor
Dailymail.com
2 May 2016
Republican candidates are in an all-out push in the final hours before Indiana voters go to the polls, with Donald Trump hoping to score a big victory that would propel him to the national GOP convention by winning a state Ted Cruz has elevated.
Cruz has been throwing everything he has into the Indiana contest, with a Hail Mary naming of Carly Fiorina to be his running made and a splashy endorsement by Gov. Mike Pence. If Trump is able to haul in the state’s 57 delegates, it could set up the real estate mogul to be able to win the nomination on the first ballot, which would scuttle Cruz’s effort to be able to get in on subsequent ballots.
A win by Hillary Clinton over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders would continue to pad her delegate lead, as even Sanders acknowledges he must rack up huge wins while converting super delegates over to his side.
‘I am in for the distance as long as we have a viable path to victory. I am competing to the end,’ said Cruz Monday as he kicked off a series of campaign retail stops.
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