Cruz Mounts Go-for-Broke Campaign in California
He’s counting on victories in Indiana and California to block Donald Trump from winning enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination outright.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz exits the California Republican Party convention in Burlingame on April 30, 2016.
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz is mounting an organizational blitz to win over California’s most committed Republican activists, part of a do-or-die effort to deny Donald Trump a win in the state with the largest number of delegates and force a contested convention.
Cruz’s campaign is counting on victories in Indiana, which votes Tuesday, and California, which votes June 7, to block Trump from winning enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination outright. The two states have the largest number of delegates in the remaining 10 contests.