Just acting. Nowhere was he talking about there being a different donald trump. Reporter the gop realitys show next big stage could be a Chaotic Convention. You need a majority. Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. Reporter and the knockout punch for Hillary Clinton. Tuesday is a great opportunity to start us on the path to the white house. Reporter fivestate supertuesday is a defining test for Bernie Sanders. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thanks for sharing your sunday morning. Last week of april includes a fivestate super tuesday and three questions dominate. Is donald trump already at odds with his new top campaign hand or all just a calculated Good Cop Bad Cop routine being president ial is easy, much easier than what i have to do. Here i have to rant and rave and keep you people going otherwise youll fall asleep on me, right . Right. Question two, can the fwop establishment make peace with complainers saying the system is rigged. Majority rule is as american as apple pie and opening day. If no candidate reaches the delegates during a primary process we go to an open or contested convention. And question three, if tuesday brings a knockout blow in the democratic race will Bernie Sanders acknowledge the math or sharpen the attacks in search of a may miracle . On tuesday, the people of maryland will be able to say loudly and clearly that it is too late for establishment politics or establishment economics. And on tuesday, the people of maryland can say it is time for a political revolution. Big week ahead with to us share the reporting and insights, julie pace of the associated press, cnns man manu raju and Ashley Parker of the new york times. We knew from day one donald trump say performer, a billionaire businessman turned tabloid celebrity turned reality tv star turned politician. Huge part of why many republicans predict a 2016 cast disaster if trump tops the gop ticket. His campaign chief traveled to a big republican meeting this past week trying to calm those concerns in and a private briefing suggested a lot of trumps bluster is just show business and things are about to change. The meeting of course was secretly recorded. Out on the stage hes talking about the kinds of things hes talking about and stuff, hes projecting an image thats for that purpose. The part hes playing is evolving is a part that now youve been expecting. Negative also come down, the image is going to change. The Evolution Campaign trat gist Paul Manafort would bring a more president ial trump but if we learned anything the past nine months trump enjoys being trump. So lyin ted took a really nice meeting with the rnc, Republican National committee, had took a really, really rafael. Rafael, straight out of the hills of canada, four years in canada, was a canadian citizen until 14, 15 months ago. If i was president ial, first of all id have a teleprompter. You ever see crooked Hillary Clinton . She walks it. Good afternoon, bridgeport. How are you . This is crooked Hillary Clinton. Then people start yawning, leaving, the whole thing is a disaster. Five states vote tuesday and trump appears poised to win them all including connecticut, where he made clear saturday he didnt appreciate the secret recording. So to show you how honorable the people in the room were, they taped these conversations. They didnt tell anybody, probably illegal. I wonder if its legal. Maybe they have to go to jail but you know they tape things. Maybe november go to jail. Ashley parker you spent a lot of time on the trump campaign. Paul manafort goes to the meeting, Republican Leaders are nervous a trumpled ticket causes them to lose races for house, senate, dog catcher. Paul manafort says the evolution is coming, dont worry. Right, exactly. I think we all remember even a couple weeks ago when donald trump said there are two Donald Trumps and moments later the second donald trump said actually, theres only one donald trump, and so i think theres one version of trump that deeply worries the party and also what worries them is that uncertainty. Paul manafort saying trust us, hes this calm president ial guy, and then trump going out there and saying president ial, well you know, lets not get too president ial. You dont sort of want uncertainty in a commander in chief and thats a concern regardless of which trump we get. Did it work . Manafort goes into the private meeting. Dan you know these people, covered them for years. Lot of them know paul from past campaigns. When he goes in and says trust me, a lot of them are saying this guy is a serious player and looking at trump and going back to the states, is my senator going to get washed out here, is my governor going to get washed out here. Does it work in the moment and trump defines it or is it Good Cop Bad Cop. I think they want this to happen hed become a more president iallike candidate and if you talked to people down there, i was there with a couple of my colleagues, you know, theyre beginning to wrap themselves around the idea that hes probably going to be their nominee but theyre not happy about that, and theyre not convinced that hes going to be good for the party, and so its an odd thing. Its like we may have to make peace with this, but eight going to be a very uneasy peace. John, the problem for trump is hes trying to make the case to the Party Establishment to make them feel okay that he wont upset them and hurt their ticket race in the general election but still facing off with ted cruz, trying to attack him for not being consistent on core conservative positions and Paul Manafort says Something Like this, reen forces those attacks on which the Cruz Campaign started to capitalize. Trump wants peace with the party and trump at every rally since secretly recorded system says its a rigged system. Ted cruz the tape gets leaked and ted cruz said i told you so. Donald trump is a fraud and anything he says is an act. You dont know what to believe. There are five states tuesday but cruz is more focused on indiana in may because of the map. Well get to the math and the map. Cruz says whenever donald trump speaks dont believe it. In the past 48 hours Donald Trumps lobbyists have taken over his campaign and gone down and told Republican Party bosses that everything donald said on the campaign is just a show. He doesnt believe any of it. Hes not going to build a wall, not going to deport anyone. This is just a lie. And i will say to the millions of americans who are frustrated with politicians who are lying to them, donald is telling us hes lying to us. Thats the response would you expect. Here it is the Campaign Strategist says its an evolution, he suggested a lot of it is just an act, ted cruz tries to seize on it but does it matter to trump voters . I think that when trump gets back on stage and pushes back at this idea hes going to have a shift, he is trying to push back on what cruz is saying there, so much of trumps appeal with voters is the idea that he is authentic, that he maybe doesnt look president ial on the stage, but hes telling them the truth. Hes telling them exactly what he believes and he knows that if he does suddenly moderate his policy positions if he suddenly isnt quite the showman that he is, he will lose some of his crowd and equates that to losing voters. Hes trying to walk a fine line he wants his staff appealing to republican eleapts, big wigs in the party. For regular voters him being out there and being the showman hes been is effective. The two audiences that these two candidates if you want to add john kasich too but particularly cruz and trump are playing for, playing for the base voters and folks who are upset with the Party Establishment, and the delegates at the convention who a lot of them are the Party Establishment. They need to win those delegates over if this goes to a second ballot. Its the challenge cruz and trump have. Trump tried to explain this away in his rallies. Sure my campaign guy goes into a private meeting says of course im different at a rally, provocati provocative, trying to get you to stand up and pep. That would are a serious conversation about states and money. Trump says its no big deal and cruz making ado about nothing. When im in a room talking im one way. When im out here talking to you people i can say basically the same thing, so cruz picks it up, lyin ted, goes donald trump is kidding everybody hes different on the trail. And he said hes going to do things differently and not going to build a wall. What the hell does this have to do with the wall . Believe me im building the wall. I think he wants to build the wall. The one thing you have to keep remembering about donald trump is, more than any other candidate in this race, he has kind of mastered the modern art of political communication or in some ways redefined it. He understands the social media age in the way most other candidates dont. He knows what hes doing when talking before the big audiences. The question is whether paul manafo manafort, an inside player can play an inside game at the same time donald trump is playing the outside game. If manaforts goal is to convince Party Leadership and delegates dont turn your back on donald trump, keep an open mind, trump coming out over the weekend does he hurt that cause . The thing to remember about trump, he gets more latitude than all of the other candidates so you have krted cruz trying t brand donald trump as a liar and disingenuous. Donald trump dubbed ted cruz lying ted. Theres something tragic about lying ted trying to convince America Donald trump is the liar. Its a steep climb. One of the important things to remember about the place we are in the campaign Donald Trumps best chance of becoming the republican nominee is to do with t through the regular voting process. He needs to win super tuesday and indiana and california. If this goes to convention hes in a much more difficult position. Thats his best prospect of becoming the nominee. Great point. Up next we map out the states just ahead and their place in the delegate chase. First politicians say the darnedest things, sometimes in german. Would you accept the nomination . No, steven, i have said i do not want nor would i accept the republican nomination. Got it. So youre considering the nomination. No, im not. Okay, ill give you some time to mull this one over. Let me say it in clear english. No. Okay, how about clear german . Nein. Clear russian . Niet. He words no one even knows. But everyone knows cheese. Cracker barrel has won awards for their delicious cheddar and they put that cheddar in a new macaroni cheese. Can you spell delicious . Delicious. D. E. L. My m. About my toothpasteice. She eveand mouthwash. Ice. But shes a dentist so. I kind of have to listen. She said jen, go pro with crest prohealth advanced. Advance to healthier gums. 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Cruz is organizing Convention Del dpats aegates and as hes pr victory, donald trump isnt happy than that. I have even more delegates than cruz even though its a crooked system they take him out to dinner, send him to hotels. Its a crooked system. Its disgusting. Cruz gets shut out in new york. It looks like donald trump is going to win all five on tuesday. How important, dan, are the margins in the sense if trump can get another 80, maybe as many as 100 tuesday. I dont know if he can get to 1237 june 7th. Close to 1200 you have time between the end of the primaries and convention to go 54 delegates from pennsylvania unbound. If donald trump wins with 50 plus hell say you owe me votes. Guam, american samoa, north dakota. How big is tuesday to convincing the Party Establishment the math is inexorablely going his way . Its very important, john. New york was very important because he broke the 60 barrier and ted cruz had a terrible night and that changed in an important way the kind of the psychology of this. It was maybe he is going to make it or come awfully close. I dont know what that magic number is in terms of the threshold hes got to reach in order to, if hes short of 1237 which people kind of say he is going to get it, but a big day on tuesday will be an important step forward for him in order to convince people that hes probably going to make it. The antitrump people say if he shows up at the convention with 1236 theyll stop him. I dont know if they can. Thats their line at the moment. If he doesnt have 1237 well stop him. We all agree if he doesnt win on the first ballot theres trouble for trump. Cruz locked up a lot of delegates pledged to trump on the first ballot and will bolt if theres a second ballot. Listen to the chairman. The meeting in hollywood, florida, Reince Priebus has a tough job. At the beginning of the cycle no question, republicans have a nominee by march. Now the question is will they have a nominee june 7th the last day of voting . Reince priebus says we might have an open convention but listen to what sneaks in here. Were prepare for all possible scenarios. We might have a nominee by july or we might have a nominee through a balloting process at the convention. The rules say you have to have 1237 delegates to be the nominee. We arent going to hand the nomination to anyone with a plurality, no matter how close they get to 1237. Now its interesting there, he says we may have a nominee pi july meaning hes acknowledging the primaries on june 7th, the convention before the ballots we may have a whole new election between the end of the primaries until we get to the convention. Donald trump is out there saying its a crooked system. If i have the most delegates give me the nomination. Reince priebus was clear, no, you need 1237 period. He was, although i again return to donald trump being an expert brander and what weve seen is hes sort of created the sense that even if i dont get to the magic number, which he probably wont, he may come close but will not get there, that hes created the sense if he doesnt get there and doesnt get the nomination that would be subverting the will of the people undemocratic and that creates a huge problem for the Republican Party to try to take it away from him that way. The real challenge for cruz particularly is that if he doesnt were not expecting him to do well on tuesday. I talked to krutz official last night who said its going to be a big night for donald trump, theyre already essentially conceding tuesday. What happens the following week in indiana which of course hes making as his firewall. Polls show trump ahead in indiana, and if trump does well there and does well in some of the states after that, including in california, but still falls short of the 1237 what is cruzs claim to the delegates particularly if he has this rough stretch headed into the convention. Cruz was ahead in indiana a few weeks ago. The fox news poll shows trump ahead and cruz is trying to stop that state, trying to stop the movement in that state by bringing up comments donald trump made first on the today show the other day, asked about North Carolinas law that says you can only go to a public bathroom in the jgender of your birth. Transgender person, born a man and become a woman in the North Carolina law you have to go to the mens bathroom. Donald trump on the today show trying to explain he does not think this is a big deal. He said if Caitlyn Jenner came to the trump tower she could use any bathroom she wanted. North carolina did something was very strong and theyre paying a big price and a lot of problems. Leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. Trump says he thinks this is much ado about nothing, this is a rare circumstance and let people figure it out. He then in i call the latest example of sean hannity trying to lead donald trump to the water, he had a conversation on fox news, hannity got him to agree this should be left to states and local communities, not the federal government. Kr ted cruz says its a big deal. Let me ask you, have we gone stark raving nuts . Im the father two of little girls. Here is basic common sense. Grown adult men, strangers, should not be alone in a bathroom with little girls. Ted cruz playing to social conservative principles there, which in a republican president ial primary is usually safe ground. If krted cruz has a horrible tuesday and cannot win in indiana. What does it say . If ted cruz cant win indiana his path is difficult. You see him with the issue, other things hes been saying trying to get back to the core of his campaign, appealing to conservatives, trying to appeal to social and religious conservatives in particular. Trumps comments on this are fascinating. You have to keep in mind this is a businessman and theres a wing of the Republican Party a more businessminded wing that looks at things that happened in North Carolina and mississippi and sees this as bad for business, bad for the party. So in some ways youve seen candidates now aligning on the traditional republican split that we had thought this election might be about. I dont know if that is purposeful by donald trump but it is interesting to watch that happen. And to watch them walk it back afterwards. Thats what youve seen him time and again with donald trump, hell Say Something on social conservative issue like abortion, saying women should be prosecuted if abortion became illegal and realized it was something you probably shouldnt say and clean it up everawards. Realizing social conservative voters could be important. One point on indiana, how cruz is approaching indiana, superpac and allies are going after john kasich because theyre concerned he could eat away at his support, knowing how critical it is, thats their focus over the next week. Northern part of indiana is ohio, its a midwest industrial state, southern end sinned more southern and so youve got this kind of split electorate, which one will dominate on may 3rd. I nominate dan balls november 3rd for the wall. First here is our inside politics quiz question for the week, should any of the current candidates pick a rival as their running mate . Yes or no. Vote online at cnn. Com vote. 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Senator sanders has to win about 53 of the remaining pledge count. In new york four of the five states voting tuesday are closed primaries. Only if rhode island can independents vote. Senator sanders doesnt like that. I dont mind losing but 3 Million People in new york state, 3 Million People who registered as independents did not have the right to participate in the democratic or republican primary. That really is not democracy. Not in senator sanders view democracy but it is the Democratic Party and the party as weve seen on the republican side with donald trump complaining about a rigged and crooked system the parties make their own rules and in this case the closed primaries not good news for senator sanders, had a tough time in the campaign. This is a tough moment. He made a similar argument in different words to what trump is saying, the system is disenfranchising a lot of american voters. I think there are merits to that. We go through this every four years parties realize, remember what their rules are but the math is just incredibly difficult for sanders. Hes learning what Hillary Clinton learned in 2008, which is based on the way that democrats run their primaries, once a candidate pulls out to a fairly good sized lead its really difficult to catch up. And he is continuing to make the case there is a pathway to him. His Campaign Manager is talking about flipping super delegates. No sign that super delegates are looking to move away from Hillary Clinton toward Bernie Sanders and thats really his only option when she went through this in 2007 and 2008 ultimately most people in the party knew she was a lifelong democrat that as hard as it was she would find a way to embrace senator obama and try to bring the Party Together and she did that and obama was grateful enough to make her secretary of state when he won the election. Lot of the clinton people are suspicious or skeptical Bernie Sanders is ready to be a big d democrat. Weve seen online both campaigns are in a nasty world in the social media. What is the calculation wednesday morning for Bernie Sanders if he has a 290, 300 pledge delegate lead for Hillary Clinton. Theres two calculations the first is what kind of a campaign does he run between now and the end of the primaries . Everybody knows hes going to run through california and the District Of Columbia on the last day of the primaries. But what does he say about her . How does he prosecute the case . Eight years ago when she was in a similar position she told her aides im going to run to the end but i dont want to do anything or say anything that would make it more difficult for barack obama to become president in november. Thats a question for him. The second thing is what does he want at the convention, in terms of the platform . What does he want in terms of how the system will work Going Forward . Will there be rules changes . And then the third is, what does he do and say to his supporters to make it clear that he wants to win in november and have a democrat in the white house. If senator sanders, and you could tell hes starting to think about this, been a bit of a divide publicly in the campaign. Jeff weaver the Campaign Manager saying were going full bore to the end, its up to the candidate in the end. If senator sanders moderates his tone and starts thinking about what i want in the platform starts being a big d democrat what is the burden on Hillary Clinton to reach out to his people . The younger ones say never vote for clinton. There is poll and evidence that shows if Hillary Clinton is the nominee that those sanders supporters in that progressive wing of the Democratic Party will come over and support hillary especially if shes running against someone like donald trump. There certainly is an impetus on hillary to reward him in some way especially if he stops persecuting sort of the personal case against her the nightmare scenario for democrats. Hell Say Something the republicans can use against her in the fall. We already saw that happen with donald trump. Donald trump the other day stood up at an event and said Bernie Sanders says that Hillary Clintons not qualified to be president. Not me, bernie. So now im going to say it. I think if that stops shell be grateful and going to need to find a way to repay him. A lot of the hillary supporters who are Party Establishment types and democrats have not really pushed bernie to get out of the race because they dont want to alienate his legions of supporters but at the same time hes not really said a lot of things sharply barbed attacks until the unqualified line. If he continues that aggressive line of attack after a bad day on tuesday and if he loses pennsylvania in particular, thats going to be a problem for him from his colleagues, who are going to come after him hard and how does he deal with that pressure. I think hell have to consider that Going Forward. Given that he says something strongly, sharply worded against her its going to probably come back and bite him. We talked about this every time theres a competitive primary, what will it take to bring the party back together. It seems this year you have different electorate and i think weve reached the point in the democratic race where it might be difficult, it might take time, by november maybe theyll all be back on the same page but i think its incumbent on both sides to work to make that happen. She has for the most part dialed back her criticism of him. She was tough in connecticut this week, which if you look at the demographics of the states tuesday, rhode island and connecticut toughest for Hillary Clinton and brought up the gun voting record in connecticut because of sandy hook. We heard ted cruz earlier in the show saying when Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager says its an act or performance, ted cruz says dont believe anything he says. Hillary clinton take is different. Dont let him get away from what he says about the wall and muslims because he means it. Trump keeps saying things like well you know, i didnt really mean it. It was all part of my reality tv show, running for president will be on your screen. Well you know what . If we buy that, shame on us. Hes already showed us what he believes and hes already said what he wants to do, and he wants to go after every one of the rights we have. To ashleys point, julie, a lot of democrats think if trump is the nominee hes the motor rater for party unity even if you dont like clinton and youre for sanders and disappointed that trump is the motivator. In the Clinton Campaign do they believe thats enough or she has to do more than just saying i want to you join me, to Say Something about Campaign Finance reform to be more direct about political reforms and wall street reforms . They definitely see trump as a motivator, something they could go to young voters could you stay at home and let donald trump be president but they also know they cant spend the entire summer and the entire Fall Campaign talking about trump, responding to him. There has to be some proactive message from her, some vision of what she would do but how to do that especially in this environment where donald trump is so skilled at controlling the narrative and being at the center of attention, its one of the biggest questions they face going into the Fall Campaign how she krvez out space for her own message but doesnt let attacks go unanswered. And how to define donald trump. Republicans are realizing they tried to define him early this election season, didnt quite work and for democrats, when do you begin that effort to truly try to define him in the eyes of general election voters. Run in a general reaction, you need a running mate. Clinton warren, trump, thats next. Yers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. What you do with it is up to you. Tylenol®. [engine revs] [engine revving] the allnew audi a4 is here. The inevitable, Clinton Warren as in the liberal darling and antiwall street crusader Elizabeth Warren . That possibility had democrats talking and debating. Donald trump says dont ask me that question until i clinch the nomination. Why then are the two candidates way behind him, ted cruz and john kasich already their campaigns say building vp lists. At the fun part of the campaign. Lets start with clinton. Her Campaign Team does think after tuesday night the path is pretty inevitable and start kicking around the names. Im going to start, dan, i think its unlikely. John podesta is doing the right thing of course shell consider women and a broad slate of candidates. Hillary clinton and Elizabeth Warren dont see eye to eye on a number of issues. Were old enough to remember bill clinton picking out fore, makes no sense, two southerners, men, moderate democrats. Would you take two women in the northeast left of center . Ive been so wrong about Vice President ial nominees over the years i will hedge i think its unlikely. She needs to bring the sanders people in. There may be other options to look at. We are so far away from a final decision on it or a genuine short list that the idea that we can narrow it down to two or three people. The labor of secretary tom perez comes up, the hud secretary, senators from virginia, cain and warner. Do you pick somebody to the left or traditionally in a general election you try to be more to the middle . Hillary clinton needs to do that work herself, frankly, i think that she can send a message with her Vice President ial pick in a couple of different directions. It will be hard to find someone short of Elizabeth Warren who will be enough in and of themselves to bring sanders voters over. From what i understand she is looking for someone as vp who has one simple qualification and that is someone who she thinks could be president , that is important to her at this point. Dont you look for a state or look at a demographic, look to a state, i need a state in the old days, ohio or florida. Are you looking to say its time for latinos to have a place on the ticket, maybe dramatic statement to women . On the latino front maybe not as important with donald trump as the republican nominee because he already is firing up latino voters but of course we want historic pick, pick someone like tom perez, castro, of course, Elizabeth Warren is unlikely. Interesting her name after podesta made the comments, pushback from warren whether she can handle the spotlight the way as Vice President ial candidate, given she has sort of avoided the spotlight and her time as a senator. Gooden a lot of attention on issues but we get into a president ial race, issues span the gamut. You hear concerns just by virtue of her name being floated. To republicans trump said he would pick somebody with washington experience or political experience because he has none of those things which is smart, makes sense. You want to pick somebody who knows the game. The fact that cruz and kasich campaigns say theyre building lists, is that a serious enterprise to pick a running mate, part of if youre them and get to a Chaotic Convention thats your play, or do it before the convention, in that month between june 7th and the convention, where youre trying to court the uncommitted delegates do you try to block donald trump saying heres the dramatic ticket i want to you vote for in cleveland. Not only is it a potential convention play to boost yourself or bring up delegates but also what you do to make yourself seem more president ial when youre not winning. Donald trump is getting closer to the nomination by winning votes in each primary or caucus. One thing they can do to add the awe raph the presidency is choose a vp for a nomination there, increasingly unlikely to secure. And do you allow yourself to get i dont demean sound cynical. Joni ernst, senator from iowa, ted cruz says i want to you be my running mate. Do you get stuck in that . Its interesting trump saying he may want a washington insider candidate to be his vp. Perhaps thats a play for Convention Delegates who want a more stable campaign. Theres a big risk in that as we know from what Ronald Reagan did in 1976 when he announced a running mate ahead of the convention, picked dick schweiker, and a lot of conse e conservatives were alarmed by that and he lost votes. The political aspect is tricky. At its core i think this is ultimately two things, one is who actually is president ial or who can actually do the job, and we saw in 012 mitt romney and paul ryan instant chemistry. Id love to see the trump calculations how to figure that out. Fascinating conversation just starting. Well carry it through to july. Our reporters empty their notebooks next, insights into why john kasich is staying in the race despite the long odds against him. We asked should any of the current candidates choose a rival as running mate . The majority 59 of you say no. Words no one even knows. But everyone knows cheese. Cracker barrel has won awards for their delicious cheddar and they put that cheddar in a new macaroni cheese. Can you spell delicious . Delicious. D. E. L. So we know how to cover almost alanything. Ything, even a stag pool party. party music splashing destruction splashing destruction burke and we covered it, october twentyseventh, 2014. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum so you dont have to stop. Tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. 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Even among the Republican Voters who felt like this nomination should wait until the next president , almost none felt like this was an issue that was going to affect their vote either in the president ial race or in their senate race. Nice try mr. President i guess. This is a week well get ate better look whether theres a new trump or old trump or multiple trumps. Well see in a Foreign Policy speech, an election night, and they will be enhancing or adding to the new operation. I think well get a better sense by the end of the week of what we are seeing in the future. And whether nato is still obsolete. Democrats are plotting their path back to the majority. They raised 40 million, reserved 40 million in air time in five battleground states this election cycle, three of which are Republican House seats, two are democrats defending, including nevada and in colorado, but the big test will come on tuesday in pennsylvania. Democratic senate Trail Campaign committee put close to 2 million behind katie mcginty, but she could lose despite having support of Party Establishment, president obama, joe biden and lose to joe sestak, former congressman and a fear among the Party Establishment if sestak wins it could undermine their ability to take back the senate this fall. Weve heard donald trump rail against the rigged and crooked system and says even though he has the biggest toys and the best toys hes not going to play this game and bribe delegates. When i interviewed him last week at trump tower he are he fused to rule that out and talking to his aides privately they say hell do just that, use the trappings of his celebrity, so the plane, trips to lago, cocktail parties, trump tower, maybe having his kids start calling delegates and if and when we see that happen that will be a sign hes getting serious about running a real campaign. Take the trump plane to guam and american samoa, get the uncommitted delegates. John kasich is running fourth in a threeman race. He continues to trail marco rubio and delegates six weeks since the florida senator quit the race. They ask why kasich is running and so do many republicans sympathetic to the Ohio Governor but see zero chance hell be the partys nominee. He has no money for tv ads, and yet to prove he is break through outsite his home state of ohio. He believed there will be an opening if the Convention Goes beyond two ballots and Party Leaders look for an alternative to trump and cruz. His goal to win 250 to 300 votes on the first ballot and then to try to build from there. Wishful thinking, probably. Kasich is enjoying the campaign despite the results so far and figures in this whacky year the long odds dont mean impossible odds. Okay, governor. Thats it for incompetent again. Thanks for sharing your sunday morning. 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