Theyre hitting the pavement hard with big rallies today. It is much more than just a number. It could equal the last stand for ted cruz. A poll shows donald trump with a 15 point lead over ted cruz. Cruz who is already named at running mate. Dont get caught watching the paint dry. We have officials from both camps joining us in a moment but first lets bring in phil to set the stage. Pretty speechless. The picked fence thing. Were at the point where were trying to figure out what viable path forward means. Thats not a good place to be. Particularly in front of a primary that you and your teams raised the stakes for in the weeks leading up to this. Everybody baked in that donald trump is going to have a good two weeks the last two weeks. Theres new york where he pulled 90 of 95 delegates. All the while ted cruzs team pointing to indiana. Not cooperating with those efforts at that point and that lead to this just a few hours ago. A question. What happens if you lose indiana . Take a liste
Washington. We want to welcome viewers in the United States and around the world. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news we are following. A Death Investigation going on right now at the singer princes estate in minnesota. We dont have any information at this point who has died or any specifics about the investigation but we are going to bring you more information as soon as it comes into cnn. Lets get to president ial politics here in the United States right now. In just five days voters in five states head to the polls. The president ial candidates are fanning out. The three republicans have stops in indiana, pennsylvania and maryland. On the democratic side Bernie Sanders and bill clinton have stops in pennsylvania while Hillary Clinton is in connecticut. For the democrats 384 delegates are up for grabs in connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania and rhode island. For the republicans 172 delegates are at stake. Senator ted cruz concedes he wont get the 1,237 delegates needed
Set to address a crowd that could truly hold the keys to his white house aspirations. Mr. Trump will be speaking at the California Republican convention, packed, packed with Party Faithful there. Reddest of the red. This is the kind of audience that may give him a chilly reception but these are also the very people trump will need in june when californias pivotal primary is perhaps the best chance to clinch the nomination. Let me show you as were talking about where mr. Trump will be speaking in just about an hours time. Already folks beginning to gather. This is outside of the state convention area. This is burlingame, california. Huff ri the b roughly the bay area. You saw what happened last night. Punches thrown. Bloody protesters. Windows shattered. Lets tohope we dont see scene like that today. We have crews both inside this event and there outside. Lets begin with this. Lets begin with Jason Carroll, he is inside the convention hall. We know, you know, mr. Trump will be the first
Victory lap in maryland and indiana and continuing to rail against the republican primary process. So its a rigged system. Its rigged for the lobbyists. Its rigged for the donors and rigged for the special interests. Fighting back again. Its not a rigged system. In fact, the rules are clear. Im not going to do anything to help or hurt anybody. Insisting hes enjoying preparing for a potential contested convention. I think assume you must be miserable. Im not sitting here trying to find the johnny walker. I mean, this is fun. Republican Party Leaders sitting down with both ted cruz and john kasich wednesday night as cruzs irritation with kasich boiling over. He has no path whatsoever to the nomination. It may be that john is auditioning to be trumps Vice President , but a trump kasich ticket loses to Hillary Clinton. Kasich defending his decision to stay in the race in an interview. Why is he attacking me all the time . All i know is if we pick these two guys according to virtually all t
Gunning for if the gop were to win now, that wouldnt bode well for his chances in 2020, and thats what he is shooting for. Donald trump and house speaker, ryan, are scheduled to have a facetoface meeting on thursday, and donald trump said i think paul ryan will be fine, and if not, thats okay. Here to break it down, boris ebstein, and ben ferguson, and liz mayor, and steven collinson. Great to see you all on this sunday, this mothers day. Happy mothers day. Happy mothers day to everybody. I want to go to you, ben, about sarah palin and her comments, and is this trying to stay i dont think she has very much power and every time she tries to reinsert herself its like watching a bad movie get better for the second and third sequel, and you need to know when to tap out, and if she knows how paul ryan ruined his career, i might want to tell sarah palin, look at her own career, and she is going to do a Reality Tv Show as a judge and shes not even a lawyer, you might want to look at your own