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April 25, 2016

Kasich, Cruz to Coordinate in Bid to Defeat Trump
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Ohio Governor John Kasich and Texas Senator Ted Cruz have announced
plans to coordinate their campaigns in an effort to deny front-runner
Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination. Cruz's campaign
says it will focus on the May 3 primary in Indiana in order to allow
Kasich to compete with Trump in Oregon and here in New Mexico. Both
Kasich and Cruz are hoping to keep Trump from reaching the threshold of
1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination before the July
convention. If Trump stays below that threshold, it opens the
possibility of a contested convention, where delegates could switch
their votes away from the candidate chosen in their state's primary or
caucus after the initial convention ballot.


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