Presidential Race Moves West Tuesday To Arizona, Utah And Idaho

Supporters hope endorsements like these will help Cruz get all 40 of the state’s Republican delegates.

Cruz continued: “And Donald Trump’s response was to come to Utah and to question Mitt Romney’s faith”.

Cruz enters the race fueled by newly pledged support from Mitt Romney and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, who both urged voters to back the Texas senator because he’s the party’s best chance to topple Donald Trump.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is likely to do well in Utah, a conservative state that prizes civility and religiosity. To Romney, Kasich was a strategic asset who ceased to have value post-Ohio.

Kasich has invested heavily in Utah in recent days, airing $215,000 in ads, including an online-only ad that falsely implies Romney backed him, rather than Cruz, in Utah. And Utah is demographically favorable to Sanders: He’s won every state where white Democrats predominate.

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Both Republicans and Democrats are participating in the Arizona primary and the Utah caucuses, while only Democrats in Idaho will caucus Tuesday.

“This is the time for Republicans across the spectrum to unite behind Ted Cruz“, Romney says in the call for the Beehive State.

On the anniversary of a presidential launch that knew nothing of a man by the name of Donald Trump, contests and converts won of late will offer the clearest signal yet of whether he can indeed consolidate the anti-Trump movement and eventually defeat the billionaire front-runner.

According to Utah state regulations, if no candidate wins more than half of the caucus votes, each of the three candidates will be awarded delegates proportionally.

However, there are only 946 delegates up for grabs in the remaining states, which means he would have to win 86 percent of the remaining delegates to solidify the nomination before the convention.

In February, Trump said he’d be “sort of a neutral guy” on Israel, sparking criticism from Republican allies of the Jewish state. “Of course I’m not a spoiler”, Kasich laughed in an interview on CNN’s “New Day” on Monday morning.

Hillary Clinton is in Washington, while Bernie Sanders campaigns in California.

Still, Sanders continues to trail Clinton by more than 300 delegates. There are also 10 Democratic “superdelegates” who can vote for anyone they want at the convention.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is in charge of law enforcement for the area, joined FOX Business Network’s Stuart Varney and explained what happened to the demonstrators after they were arrested.

Trump’s rallies over the weekend was marred by protests.

“I’m going to support that person”, he said, “and I don’t expect that person to be me”.

In order to make up the difference, Cruz would have to upset Trump in states with a lot of delegates like California, New York, and Pennsylvania.