Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign stop March 25 in Oshkosh, Wis. (Darren Hauck/AP) (Darren Hauck/AP)
INDIANAPOLIS — Ted Cruz said Wednesday morning that he would make a “major announcement” at an afternoon rally here, a day after his drubbing by Donald Trump in Republican presidential primaries in five East Coast states.
Cruz declined to say what his announcement would be. It comes as Cruz, who is in desperate need of a way to gain ground on Trump, is vetting potential vice presidential running mates. He joked Tuesday night that he would have an announcement on that front, before saying in jest that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had picked Trump as her running mate.
Trump and Cruz were quickly setting their sights on Indiana on Wednesday, where Trump is seeking a knockout blow and Cruz was making a last-gasp effort to survive.
Trump will return to the Hoosier State to hold an evening rally after delivering a foreign policy address in Washington that his team hopes will make him appear more presidential. He will be joined in Indiana by longtime Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight, who is a fan favorite here.
Cruz, who has spent the past few days in Indiana trying to get a head start on Trump and move swiftly past his humiliating Tuesday defeats, planned to campaign at a restaurant Wednesday morning before the afternoon rally.
Looming over the race is the question of whether Gov. Mike Pence will publicly back Trump, Cruz or no one. The governor met with both candidates last week.
“He may not endorse — I don’t think he’ll endorse anybody, actually — and he may endorse us, I don’t know,” Trump said on CNN on Wednesday morning. He added that he thinks Pence will either endorse him or no one.
Indiana is the only state holding a Republican primary next Tuesday. Trump and Cruz are expected to spend much of their time campaigning here. A loss for Cruz would deal a catastrophic blow to his struggling campaign, which was set back immensely by his poor showing Tuesday.
The third remaining candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, has stopped actively campaigning in Indiana, clearing the way for Cruz to square off against Trump one on one. In exchange, Cruz is clearing the way for Kasich to face Trump in Oregon and New Mexico. Kasich plans to stump in Oregon on Thursday.
The Cruz-Kasich deal has been unsteady, and it’s not clear whether it will have the intended effect of isolating and defeating Trump in three key states.
Polls show Trump and Cruz in close competition in Indiana. In a speech Tuesday night at the Hoosier Gym in Knightstown, where the movie “Hoosiers” was filmed, Cruz declared to supporters: “Tonight this campaign moves back to more favorable terrain.”
Cruz will enter the next week badly wounded by two straight weeks of East Coast blowout losses where he mostly finished third behind Trump and Kasich. On Tuesday, Trump swept Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. In all but Pennsylvania, Cruz finished last.
According to the Associated Press’s latest delegate count, Trump has nearly a 400-delegate lead over Cruz and is nearly 800 ahead of Kasich.
Trump called his Tuesday sweep the “biggest night” of the campaign, confidently predicting that he could capture the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination outright. He also suggested during a question-and-answer session with reporters at Trump Tower on Tuesday evening that Cruz and Kasich were doing the party harm by remaining in the contest.
“I consider myself the presumptive nominee, absolutely,” Trump said. He suggested that Cruz and Kasich exit the race because “they have no path to victory at all.”
He added: “The best way to beat the system is to have evenings like this, where you get record-setting votes.”
Responding to reports that Cruz is vetting Republicans, including rival-turned-supporter Carly Fiorina, to be his vice presidential running mate, Trump said Wednesday morning that it was not a good idea.
“I think it hurts him. I can’t imagine he does it,” the mogul said on “Fox and Friends.” “First of all he shouldn’t be naming anybody because he doesn’t even have a chance.”
Cruz nodded at the vice presidential intrigue surrounding him Tuesday night, saying he had an announcement. But the announcement — that Clinton had tapped Trump as her running mate — was made in jest.
During a rally in Indiana last week, Trump put the air-conditioning maker Carrier at the center of his pitch. He is expected to continue doing so. The company has announced that it plans to move jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico. Trump said that as president, he would subject such a move to a tax penalty. He has mentioned Carrier in other states, too.
Trump also has bragged about Knight’s endorsement on the campaign trail for days.
“He’s tough, he’s sharp and he wins. And the people of Indiana love him,” he said Tuesday.
Cruz repeatedly tried to link Trump to Clinton on Tuesday night, signaling that he plans to try to blur the distinction between them on several policy and political fronts during the next week.
Clinton and Trump are “flip sides of the same coin,” argued Cruz, who accused Trump of holding Clinton-like views on health care, foreign policy, immigration and other issues.
Trump has been an outspoken critic of Clinton. He has referred to her on the campaign trail as “Crooked Hillary.”
Indiana awards 57 delegates to the Republican National Convention on a winner-take-all basis by congressional district and statewide.
DelReal reported from New York. Katie Zezima in Washington contributed to this report.
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? 一般说话象川普一样气势雄雄有两种情况 -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (618 bytes) (169 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:15:23
? 他是第一类，好多思考他80年代就有，实践前就看出来，但他说话用词简单犀利，太透明缺表演深沉的技巧，明白他要时间 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (13 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:23:02
? Take the wall as an example -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (803 bytes) (53 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:32:47
? there will be no wall -尔思- ♀ 给 尔思 发送悄悄话 尔思 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (2 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:37:38
? 建和不建这个wall，还需算算opportunity cost，这个边境太松野管不住的毒品运输，增加就业，等等 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (185 bytes) (18 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:43:09
? Whether it is worth building the wall--is ANOTHER question -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (74 bytes) (7 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:49:51
? 你怎么知道？不知要增加多少就业呢，各州政府高兴配合，可能换来其它一些deal的免税，discount，等等优惠 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (3 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:52:58
? 就是个引子（还让别人付成本），接着，要是优惠吸引来投资，那个州，地区可能就开始繁荣起来 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (0 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:00:23
? 早说过了，只要减少一点美墨贸易逆差，墙的钱就出来了。川黑觉得不停重复别人就会相信墙的钱墨西哥不出，事实不是这样的。 -MAGA2016- ♂ 给 MAGA2016 发送悄悄话 MAGA2016 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (10 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:49:29
? 反正中心思想就是反对非法移民，保障美国人民利益和安全为先，至于是用何种手段，建墙或其它手段，只要都能达到目标，就不必在意词面上的 -72变- ♀ 给 72变 发送悄悄话 72变 的博客首页 72变 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (11 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:06:24
? 明白人 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (1 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:10:03
? 聪明的商人如果有更经济有效的方式可以达成自己的目标，为何要拘泥于形式？如果做为一个国家领导人，意义会更重大，因为受益者是人民和国 -72变- ♀ 给 72变 发送悄悄话 72变 的博客首页 72变 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (3 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:26:11
? So he has an idea but really don't know how? very practical!!! -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (3 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:13:18
? leader要有vision，剩下技术细节交给专家。判断leader就是不能顺序反着。ObamaHillary说技术很细，但方向 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (4 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:18:10
? 很细，看HillarySanders的debate就看出她能细得让人听睡着，但大方向错的，班加西事件也一样 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (3 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:21:05
? A visionary does not have to know the details but would have not -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (335 bytes) (14 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:21:21
? 我理解你的意思，你这样人很多，喜欢别人按照自己想像的那样操作，关键，如果那样政治正确就不是他了 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (5 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:25:30
? Is it me who is imaging things or Trump??? -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (1 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:26:35
? 再看看，你在期待image他该这样那样说，作吧？ -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (5 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:31:17
? 如果那么会政治正确就不是他了。看大方向就是了。再会开车方向错了更危险 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (10 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:29:07
? I also thought Trump's supportors trust him to honor his words -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (147 bytes) (13 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:16:06
? "Reducing deficit" means "mexico pays for it"?? very good -SwiperTheFox- ♂ 给 SwiperTheFox 发送悄悄话 SwiperTheFox 的博客首页 SwiperTheFox 的个人群组 (41 bytes) (4 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 13:08:52
? 是啊，川普的做人，他的家庭，都是值得信赖的。况且事实已经证明08和喜姐不行。 -Mom9504- ♀ 给 Mom9504 发送悄悄话 Mom9504 的个人群组 (0 bytes) (2 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 14:07:38
? 他这类人打破好多既定判断人的模式。举个例子：一个谦虚，一个骄傲，真实力你怎么判断？谦虚的那位。。。。。 -Narnar- ♀ 给 Narnar 发送悄悄话 Narnar 的个人群组 (455 bytes) (69 reads) 04/27/2016 postreply 12:37:41