Unity Eludes Republicans Amid Three-Way Wrangling in California
- Trump says he could win without an all-for-one party effort
- He'd be `crushed,' Kasich says; Cruz likens mogul to Clinton
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the California Republican Party Convention on April 29, 2016, in Burlingame, California.
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California’s last-in-the-U.S. primary, so often an afterthought in presidential campaigns, now looms as potentially decisive for a splintered Republican Party.
Front-runner Donald Trump had to dodge protesters to tell California Republicans that he could win the presidency by carrying his native New York and other Democrat-leaning states. His remaining opponents, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, told party activists that they stand a better chance of winning the general election.