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A Tale of Two Very Different Campaigns
With roughly two-thirds of the 2016 primary
season now behind us, this past weekend epitomized the different
strengths and weaknesses of the Donald Trump and Ted Cruz campaigns. In
Colorado on Saturday, Cruz's organizational superiority helped him sweep
34 pledged delegates at the GOP state convention, while the Trump
effort was wholly disorganized. "On Saturday, Trump backers passed out
flyers at the convention site with official campaign slate of 13
delegates and 13 alternates accompanied by their three-digit number
position on the 600-plus person ballot. Seven of the names, however,
directed people to the wrong number and one delegate's name was
misspelled," MSNBC's Benjy Sarlin wrote. A prominent Trump volunteer in Colorado added to NBC's Alex Jaffe
that Trump supporters there "were feeling demoralized." But the next
day came a reminder of Trump's strength and Cruz's weakness: A Fox News poll showed
Trump over 50% in New York, which would give the real-estate mogul a
chance to take all of the state's 95 delegates, while it had Cruz in
third place. And another Fox poll
found Trump at 48% in Pennsylvania -- followed by John Kasich at 22%,
and Cruz at 20% (again, in third place). An NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of New
York will be coming out later this afternoon.
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