{"id":19116,"date":"2016-03-06T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arabsiyonews.net\/?p=19116"},"modified":"2016-03-06T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T14:18:17","slug":"ted-cruz-wins-dent-donald-trumps-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/06\/ted-cruz-wins-dent-donald-trumps-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz wins dent Donald Trump&#8217;s momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arabsiyo News<\/p>\n<p>US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has won nominating contests in Kansas and Maine, denting frontrunner Donald Trump&#8217;s momentum and bolstering Cruz&#8217;s case that he is the best alternative for those bent on stopping the billionaire businessman.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, frontrunner Hillary Clinton won in Louisiana, while her rival Bernie Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, won in Kansas and Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Five states were holding nominating contests on Saturday as Trump and Clinton looked to strengthen their leads in the battle to pick nominees for the November 8 presidential election to succeed President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"Brightcove\" data-embed-id=\"4787567565001\">\n<table class=\"in-article-item video\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arabsiyonews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/25ea9c6b47e541ebb22da3f240813e31_18.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19117\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-19117\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arabsiyonews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/25ea9c6b47e541ebb22da3f240813e31_18-300x169.jpg?resize=547%2C308\" alt=\"25ea9c6b47e541ebb22da3f240813e31_18\" width=\"547\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A.phataah Giryaad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump won in Louisiana and Kentucky. The results were bad news for the remaining two Republican candidates, Marco Rubio, a US senator from Florida, and Ohio Governor John Kasich, who trailed in all four contests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scream you hear, the howl that comes from Washington, DC, is utter terror at what &#8216;We the People&#8217; are doing together,&#8221; Cruz told supporters in Coeur d&#8217;Alene, Idaho, after his win in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, a US senator from Texas who has promoted himself to voters as a true conservative, in contrast to Trump, also won a nonbinding &#8220;straw poll&#8221; of activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we saw in Kansas is a manifestation of a real shift in momentum,&#8221; Cruz told reporters in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>In the overall race for Republican delegates, Trump leads with at least 375 and Cruz has at least 291. Rubio has 123 delegates and Kasich has 33. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.<\/p>\n<p>The races on Saturday were open only to registered Republicans, excluding the independent and disaffected Democratic voters who have helped Trump&#8217;s surge to the lead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Aljazeera.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabsiyo News US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has won nominating contests in Kansas and Maine, denting frontrunner Donald Trump&#8217;s momentum and bolstering Cruz&#8217;s case that he is the best alternative for those bent on stopping the billionaire businessman. On the Democratic side, frontrunner Hillary Clinton won in Louisiana, while her rival Bernie Sanders, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-english-news","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kp1p-4Yk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsiyonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}