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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting April 22, 2016

Meeting of the Republican National committee in south florida where Donald Trumps team tried to reassure nervous republicans that the g. O. P. Frontrunner will soon be a completely different guy. Trumps convention managers say trump is playing a part another his rallying, performance to rope in supporters but the strategist says donald trump knows he needs to change his tone. Somebody recorded that conversation, lead it to the Associated Press and others. The part he has been playing is not only the part that you have been expecting and he wasnt ready for to be in first place. Energy is going to change. There you go. Donald trump take something positions that rattle some republicans. He said yesterday if he gets the nomination hell chang the partys official position on abortion. Trump says he would include exceptions in the case of rape, insist, or if a mothers lives its risk. Some antiabortion are blast can trumps position. And the spoke out about bathroom bills that tarring transgender people. Those bills force people to use the restroom that matches their gender on the birth certificate. Trump says people should be able to use whatever restroom is appropriate. A stance that is at odds with many republicans. All of that has ted cruz on the attack, saying trump has been faking his positions. He doesnt believe anything he is saying. Hes just trying to fool gullible voters and is not going to build a wall, not going deport anyone. He is telling us he is lying to us. Still there are signs that ted cruz is undergoing a bit of a personality makeover of his own. He has been working at the late night talk show circuit. He has been bringing his wife and kids on the campaign trail. Top aide to the Cruz Campaign says theyre trying to show the senator in more lighthearted settings. After a recent focus group with women gave cruz horrible reviews. When pollsters asked women what animal ted cruz would be, some said a mosquito. The words of one of the women, just want to bat it away. We have team fox coverage of this grandelection center. Connell mcshane is following the Donald Trump Campaign in delware. First rich hudson in d. C. Any sign trump changed his tones . I cant keep up with it. Reporter we have another rally in an hour, well figure it out. Donald trump maintains a substantial delegate lead, up in the polls in the five northEastern States, hosting primaries on tuesday. Yet he needs to win more than half he delegates in the outstanding republican primaries to secure the nomination on the first ballot. That has trump promising to behave more like a president. Okay. We have to. We have to. And were doing so good. Some we have to be tough for a little while, and at some point im going to be so president ial that you people will be so bored. Reporter he says he is holding off because he still has two republicans to defeat. He has tweeted, quote, both ted cruz and john kashich have no path to victory. They should both drop out of the race so the Republican Party can unify. Cruz and kashich acknowledge theyve arrive at the convention short of the delegates needed to secure the nomination ton the first ballot but maintain trump will fall short and they can beat him in a contested convention. And kashich and cruz reiterating theyre not going anywhere. Reporter and they continue to campaign, the texas senator released a web ad condemning trump for criticizing north carolinas socalled bathroom law, as for trumps promise to act more like a president , cruz calls it pandering and said trumps lobbyists has taken over his campaign. Trumps campaign saying he will deliver a Foreign Policy address on wednesday at the National Press club here in washington. That should be worth watching. Thank you. Donald Trump Campaigning in delware today. A state that wouldnt normally get much attention in any other election season. This is not any other election season. Trump is doing well in the polls there and its winnertakeall. Trump is going to need all the delegates he can get if he wants to lock up the nomination before the con sentence july. Connell mcshane is live in delware. Thats an important state, isnt it . Reporter it is. Its interesting because every state it. Every delegate is. This time around in delware, seems like tiny little think how strange the state of pennsylvania is, the birth state the way it al loping caked tellings and votes on tuesday with 71 telling dels but 54 of them are free agents going into the convention so that leaves only 17 statewide delegates in pennsylvania to the winner of that state. But as you pointled out here in delware, winnertakeall, the winner gets 17 delegates. You can make the argument that delware is almost important to the Trump Campaign as pennsylvania is. The final thing id say is the web site 538. Com put out an interesting analysis that says because delware is so small, not a ton of republicans here, but because you dont have a lot of republicans, it is where their votes are worth more. They have more leverage. They put it that a republican vote in a state of delware is worth four times as much as a republican vote in the state of florida. Interesting donald trump will be here in an hour. What are you expecting out of this event today . Reporter a big rally, trump. Rich talked about the moves to more serious speeches but doesnt look like the big rallies are going anywhere. So these will we the famous lines, the crooked hillary and Everything Else he has two moraleys tomorrow in connecticut. So hes going to keep doing this kind of thing. Okay. Thank you. Lets get to chris wall los angeles the anchor of fox news sunday. Hello, chris. How are you . Well, thank you. This whole trump thing has been an act. So often people act more moderate than really they are, sometimes they tone things down just for perception. If what were hearing now is the case, hes ratcheted it up as part of a show. Do you buy it . No, i dont. Certainly i dont think thats what paul manafort, trumps new top adviser meant. I just got off the phone with him and hes saying that the way he would put it is Connell Mcshane just talked about, trump is going to be at a big rally and acts one way at a big rally, when he gives a Foreign Policy speech on wednesday, here at the National Press club, hes going to act a different way. Doesnt mean that one is a performance and the other isnt. It just means that in different circumstances, as he put it, you dont wear a tuxedo to a picnic but says its all the real trump and that theres no acting involved at all in trumps performance so far in this campaign. I was listening yesterday to cavuto and can i heard sean hannity tell cavuto he thinks he has reason to believe, to the he wouldnt be specific, theres backroom stuff going on and at the convention well be really surprised and its not going to be a trump runaway. That was seans position. Can you shed any light on this . I didnt have the benefit of listening to that. I think its fairly out in the open. Trump have nos to get to the magic number of 1237. One way would be to win the delegates in the primaries. If he doesnt get there, and probable live may not probably may not but june 7th june 7th when california and new jersey vote, he has 41 days, almost exactly six weeks, between the end of the primaries and the beginning of the convention to try to make up the difference to get from wherever he is, probably over a thousand delegates to 1237, and thats perfect live legal. Its the rules he has been arguing about. But in fact sometimes the rules benefit him and the likes him. When they dont benefit, he doesnt like them. How do you see next week shaping up . Well, i think trumps going to do very well. Were talk can at northern states, northEastern States, Midatlantic States and Eastern States, and that as we saw in new york, they like trump a lot in those states and they dont like ted cruz very much at all. Then the primary map will switch out the week after that to indiana, which is tougher for trump and better for cruz, on this super tuesday threequarters when five Eastern States vote this coming tuesday, i think trump will too well. When you look at the calendar dar and the rules statebystayed for delegates do you see the math there is good for him . Would you give its percentage now whether trump will clinch this thing . I no. I think its unlikely that, as i say, hellll get to 1237 by the end of the primary but i think hes going to be close. Whether its 100 votes votes or0 votes and there are that many unpledged delegates out there. Theres going to be 54 delegates in pennsylvania next week, even no matter who wins to say trump gets 60 . 54 of the 71 delegates are unpledged so if trump can make a pitch to them that he is the gave they should go with, he won the state, he is their best chance of winning in november, hes going to try to pick those up and obviously kashich and cruz are going to work against him on that. So, my guess is that those 41 days between california and cleveland are going to be really crucial, and fascinating. Maybe in a sense more important than actually what goes on in cleveland. Are more traditional republican insiders coming around to this idea of trump as nominee, or is that just talk . I think its true. I mean, is it a big landslide . No but i do think that there is a growing feeling i think its both a positive and a negative. As trump continues to win and win by increasing margins he not 60 of the vote in new york i think that there is a growing maybe not enthusiasm but acceptance of trump also the nominee. Sort of negative side is that i think that theres a concern, growing concern, about trump coming to cleveland with 1100 delegates, 1150 delegates, hundreds of delegates ahead of cruz and somehow youll take the nomination away from him. I understand he needs an absolute majority to get it but that is going to be ugly and messy for the party if he goes in with by far the most delegate and done get the nomination. It would be a miss. Chris, looking forward to the show this weekend. Chris has hand interview with paul manafort, Donald Trumps convention manager, and also the florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultz, chairman of the Democratic National committee. Ought to be good. On fox news sunday. More politics ahead, and late their death of the music icon prince. What really killed him at just 57 years old. We have all soon the reports online. Talk of drug problems. Well look for answers, and also tracking developments out of ohio, word of multiple people dead, including children. What happened there, all coming up from the fox news deck on a busy friday afternoon. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders spending the day in pennsylvania. Secretary clinton leading there by 16 points, according to a real clear politics average of the polls. One survey has her up by as muching a 27. Peter doocy is live in washington. Sanders citing vicepresident biden in his attacks on clinton . Reporter yes, he says the vicepresident was being critical of clinton when he told the New York Times that he likes it when Democratic Candidates think big because thats how they get elected to office. So sanders reads that as an endorsement and reading the words from the vicepresident s interview to rally supporters in pennsylvania and seems like its being wellreceived. I think the vicepresident , born and raised in scranton i think the vicepresident is exactly right. That is what this campaign is about. Reporter that is especially interesting because while sanders has embraced the obama administration, he has detroit to run further to the left but he just cooperate pass up the opportunity to share the vps kind words, not too far from the bidens home town. Clinton seems to have moved on from sanders, she doesnt talk about him much. Not that she is saying nicer things. Just doesnt talk about him at all unless its gun control. He is starting to look past the primaries, past sanders, towards trump, who she just called on to stop with the namecalling. Got to change the culture so it is no long are acceptable for people to say what they say about others. You can disagree with somebody. Thats fair game. But to launch personal attacks to try to intimidate and degrade somebody else is off limits. The clinton team today is doing damage control on an ap report that says dozen of companies that hired her to speak for big bucks were also lobbying for federal contracts at the same time but a clinton spokesperson says look at her record. She is fair to everyone. Companies that paid her and companies that didnt. Peter, thank you. Virginia just added a couple hundred tread thousand potential voter 0 the rolls the governor ifing an executive order to restore Voting Rights to convicted felon. That means every felon in virginia who completed his or her sentence along with supervised release will out in be eligible to vote and to run for office or serve on jury and become a notary public. He says the laws unfairly affect africanamericans. Voting rights for exfelons are different across the country. Kentucky, iowa, florida, are the only states that permanently evoke Voting Rights for people with prior felony convictions. How do you pick a vicepresident . Could donald trump reach out to marco rubio . Little marco . Or could his current rival, john kashich, join him on the snicket thats up next. And on the ticket . Thats up nerve. Ive seen a lot of reasons for automobile recalls, a lot. Ive never seen what just came over. Hang on. Theres only one egg that just tastes better. With 10 times more vitamin e. And twice the omega 3s. Because why have ordinary when you can have the best. Only egglands best. Better taste. Better nutrition. Better eggs. Real is touching a ray. Amazing is moving like one. Real is making new friends. Amazing is getting this close. Real is an animal rescue. Amazing is over twentyseven thousand of them. There is only one place where real and amazing live. Seaworld. Real. Amazing show show me more like this. S. Show me previously watched. Whats recommended for me. X1 makes it easy to find what blows you away. Call or go online and switch to x1. Only with xfinity. My goodness. Minute ago i mentioned we received a very strange bulletin from Associated Press about be car recall. Its from reuters Fiat Chrysler recalling 1. 1 million cars and suvs worldwide because vehicles may roll away after drivers exit. Whats to that mean exactly . Is it a problem with the brakes . Are the cars just coming goingathon mouse on us and deciding to go for drives on their own . Maybe meet some other cars out . Its up clear us but theres a 1. 1 million recall order on fiat and chrysler because the cars may roll away. Well, as we edge closer to the conventions the campaigns are looking into potential running mates now. Washington post reports republican candidates could make their vicepresident ial announcements as early as june. The month before the convention. Glen hall is here, the u. S. Editor for the wall street journal. Some names we have here. Some names being floated. I think its early days in terms of short lists but theres a long list of people being considered. Marco rubio is one of the ones on the list. Marco rubio, john kashich, people are talking about. Makes sense to talk about people who have been in the president ial cycle already. When they get to the convention, theyre going to perhaps have some bartering to do if nobody has all of the delegates, so im not convention well have a name before we get to the convention because that it me a be part of the bargaining. Joanie effort is on the list. She is a from ohio, and then i meant to all the senators. Dont know deb fisher, deb fisher is on the list. Cruz allies already suggesting names, with one being mentioned, female senators joany ernst and deb fisher of nebraska. Its a question whether the candidate is looking to balance out shows comings in the democraticses, so having young rising star in the Republican Party or another woman on the campaign to extend your appeal, that works well in some cases. Im not sure thats the way that they think about the vicepresident this cycle. Like everything necessary this election cycle, the old rules arent seeming to apply. On the democratic side, Elizabeth Warren at the top of the list. She hasnt endorsed. And she expressed very little interest in being part of this president ial cycle elm might not have an picks down the road but being a vicepresident almost can set you back when youre trying to run for president town the road. Julian castro mentioned on the democratic side, and. Another one of those rising stars. He and his brother are wellknown, wellliked and bring in the hispanic voter, they have a big broadbased appeal, especially with younger demographics. That could work out well as far as Hillary Clinton trying to balance out her appeal. Sherrod brown. Thomas perez, Amy Klobuchar. Not mentioned well, Amy Klobuchar we have heard before. She has a lot of experience. Like i said, a lot of trial balloons being floated. Some names are just people interested in seeing their names popped out. The official vetting process is just getting underway. Theyre festivitying were hearing that sometimes theyre trying to get a sense of, need to have different types of candidates, depends on the swags i find myself in down the road. So i need to have different types of appeal. Corey booker is not on the list. For a minute, for a hot minute, everybody was like, hillary might pick him. We dont have a clue. The calculus is too early. The campaigns are still too raw for us to figure out where the agains are that need to be filled, that a vicepresident ial running mate can help. Until we see a little bit further down the road how the electoral votes are stacking up, right now the game on the republican side who is brings me the delegate, not necessarily who brings me the votes. I turned the page over to see if if

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