No Show Trump Leads to Canceled GOP Debate in Utah<\/strong><\/h2>\nContinuing his trend of always surprising and never toeing the party line, Trump announced earlier today that he would not partake in next Monday\u2019s scheduled Republican debate in Utah, opting instead to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Conference (AIPAC) in Washington, D.C. that day. The GOP frontrunner claimed he\u2019d known nothing of the next debate on a Fox & Friends<\/em> interview held this morning.<\/p>\n“I was very surprised when I heard that Fox called for a debate. Nobody told me about it. I won’t be there, no,” said Trump in his inimitably ingenuous style. Fox subsequently cancelled the event after Kasich followed suit and dropped out as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“We had hoped to contrast Governor Kasich’s positive inclusive approach to problem solving with Trump’s campaign of division,” said John Weaver via email to FOX 13. Weaver is Kasich top campaign strategist.<\/p>\n
“This morning, Donald Trump announced he would not be participating in the debate. Shortly afterward, John Kasich’s campaign announced that without Trump at the debate, Kasich would not participate. Ted Cruz has expressed a willingness to debate Trump or Kasich — or both. But obviously, there needs to be more than one participant. So the Salt Lake City debate is cancelled,” said Michael Clemente for Fox News this morning.<\/p>\n
And Now, Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Results\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\nWednesday morning the Show-Me State remains too close to call on either side. With 99 percent of the vote tallied and submitted, Trump holds a 40.8 percent lead over Cruz at 40.6 percent. On the Democratic side, Clinton is edging Sanders 49.6 to 49.4 percent.<\/p>\n
Since both sides are within the one percentage point margin of error, news outlets aren’t calling the race for either Trump or Clinton. Election officials in Missouri say 100 percent of precincts are reporting, but that absentee and provisional ballots remain uncounted.<\/p>\n
The divide among voters in Missouri highlights the general sentiment of the 2016 election in the United States. The Republican Party remains conflicted on their tenacious frontrunner, while Democrats continue to ponder whether Clinton has the same appeal as her husband or predecessor President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
Will Rubio Back Cruz?<\/strong><\/h2>\nOnce the favorite among the so-called “establishment,” Rubio’s campaign to become president might have come at the least opportune period in his 44-year lifetime. Americans are downright mad at politicians, and in the Republican Party, the answer thus far has been Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
“America’s in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami, and we should have seen this coming,” Rubio said last evening. “After tonight it is clear that while we are on the right side, this year we will not be on the winning side.”<\/strong><\/p>\nGOP strategists against Trump have been calling for either Cruz or Rubio to exit the race to create a more unified coalition against the non-traditional conservative.<\/p>\n
Avik Roy, Rubio’s campaign manager, wrote in a Forbes op-ed Wednesday, “There is only one option left for conservatives to win the White House. The time to unite around Ted Cruz is now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are closer this morning to securing their respective party’s nomination for the presidential general election, following yet another dominating Tuesday primary session. The leading Republican and Democrat for the 2016 race both took Florida, North Carolina, and Illinois, while Clinton also claimed Ohio over her challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":34433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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