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Trump amassing delegates who might not be loyal
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Already
behind the curve in organizing for
the Republican convention, Donald
Trump has missed crucial deadlines
in a number of states to lock up
delegates who would stay loyal
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Trump’s shortcomings in this
behind-the-scenes
campaign,
which hasn’t played much of a role
in selecting the GOP nominee in
decades, could doom his presiden-
tial candidacy if he is unable to win
the nomination in the initial voting
at this summer’s national conven-
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delegates are no longer bound to
support the winner of their state’s
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elected at state and congressional
district conventions run by party
insiders, members of the Repub-
lican establishment that Trump has
run against from the outset of his
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had little contact with these loyal
party activists, his chief rival for
the Republican nomination, Texas
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Trump has spent the past three
days hammering at his party’s dele-
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At a rally in Rome, New York,
Tuesday evening, Trump angrily
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tion of all of Colorado’s delegates
to Cruz, blasting the party’s system
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Trump’s team is only now
starting to engage in the delegate
selection process, the choosing
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Republicans have already selected
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Indiana’s primary, for example,
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lenge of then-President Gerald Ford
at the 1976 Republican convention
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Manafort has accused Cruz’s
campaign
of
strong-arming
would-be delegates and said in an
interview with Fox News Chan-
nel’s Sean Hannity airing Tuesday
night that he shared concerns with
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was making is that the process in
Colorado was being abused and
it’s not that the rules themselves
were unknown, it’s the way the
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the same mistakes in Colorado,
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successful in selecting delegates in
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lican Chairman Katon Dawson,
who has been publicly neutral in the
race, said he’s seen no difference
in Trump’s delegate strategy since
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GOP strategist, “He’s not a house-
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Trump won all 50 of South Caro-
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delegate at the national convention,
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consultant Tony Denny, who has
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Cruz has already done a lot
of groundwork to get supporters
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But the deadline to become a
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vice chairman of Trump’s Indiana
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of volunteers who are working in
state after state to get his supporters
selected as delegates, even those
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Trump is just ramping up his
operation, but in some states he’s
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Trump won the primary — he has
missed the deadlines to assemble
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however, has delegate candidates
in 10 of Virginia’s 11 congressional
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Indiana’s primary is May 3, but
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actual people — have already been
selected at congressional district
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as a candidate for delegate was
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In all, at least nine states have
picked some or all of their dele-
gates: Colorado, Iowa, Indiana,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan,
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delegates in primaries and caucuses
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the candidates had no formal role
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Ryan rules out presidential bid Garden-care giant to drop chemicals
WASHINGTON (AP) —
House Speaker Paul Ryan on
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out a bid for president this
year, insisting that the party’s
choice should emerge from
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In a brief news conference
at the Republican National
Committee
headquarters,
the Wisconsin Republican
sought to tamp down rampant
speculation that he could
end up as the party’s stan-
dard-bearer if front-runner
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the 2012 vice presidential
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Ryan’s comments come as
a contested convention looks
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his aides have continually
denied the speaker has
presidential ambitions this
year, but their statements
have not put the issue to
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Ryan also denied he wanted
to be speaker last fall after
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announced his resignation,
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Tuesday’s appearance was
an attempt to shut down the
speculation once and for all,
and end what aides said has
become a major distraction to
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it may not be enough to quiet
the talk about Ryan, given the
unpredictable twists of the
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to the delegates on this: If no
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should only choose a person
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believe that if you want to
be the nominee — to be the
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Trump looks unlikely to
accumulate the necessary
delegates to clinch the
nomination ahead of the July
Republican convention in
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his lead challenger, Texas
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Yet party leaders fear
neither the erratic Trump
nor the polarizing Cruz
could beat likely Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton in
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GOP won’t be able to hold
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DENVER (AP) — Amid
ominous warnings about
threats to pollinators and
the food crops they make
possible,
garden-care
giant Ortho said Tuesday
it will stop using a class of
chemicals widely believed
to harm the most important
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Bees are critical to the
food supply because about
one-third of the human diet
comes from insect-polli-
nated plants, and honeybees
are responsible for 80
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Concern about bee health is
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cials considering whether to
protect two species of wild
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removed
neonicotinoids
from the majority of its
products used to control
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plans to remove it from all
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The company is believed
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ucts brand to announce it will
stop using the chemicals,
said Lori Ann Burd, director
featuring:
John Turner
Tuesday, April 19 , 2016 at 7:00 p.m.
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The severity of neonics’
effects on bees appears to
vary depending on the type
of crops they are used on,
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neonics for short, attack
the central nervous systems
of insects, killing them or
making them vulnerable
to predators and deadly
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cides, along with disease
and declining diversity in
gardens and landscapes,
are among the causes of
declining bee populations
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neonics
from Ortho products might
require gardeners to apply
them more frequently, but it
will be easier to target pests
while reducing the chances
of hurting bees, said Tim
Martin, the company’s
vice president and general
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Marysville,
Ohio-based
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