Kaufman: GOP not ready to kick ‘tens of millions of voters to the curb’

Kaufman: GOP not ready to kick ‘tens of millions of voters to the curb’

Predicting the Republican Party "will come together behind Trump sooner versus later," GOP National Committee member Ronald Kaufman of Massachusetts says that while a team of Republican candidates drew attention to GOP presidential politics "it's pretty hard not to" credit Donald Trump with bringing out new voters.

"He's played by the rules and won by the rules. He will be the nominee in my opinion, probably on the first ballot" at the Republican National Convention scheduled for July in Cleveland, Kaufman, a strategist at Denton's Worldwide, told WCVB's "On the Record" in an interview televised Sunday morning.

Campaign rumbles into Indiana with underdogs struggling
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Campaign rumbles into Indiana with underdogs struggling

Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The 2016 presidential campaign rumbled through Indiana Sunday focused on Tuesday's critical primary, even as front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump itched to fully engage in the one-on-one battle they cast as inevitable.

But the underdogs in both parties made clear they had no plans to exit the race, at least until the Indiana results come in — and perhaps longer.

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