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| Trump's team prepares the world for a new Donald – campaign live | Trump's team prepares the world for a new Donald – campaign live |
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| Priebus: 1,237 or bust | |
| Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has declared at the party’s spring meeting in Florida that the party is serious about its rule that a candidate must capture a majority of delegates at stake – 1,237 this year – to win the presidential nomination, reports Guardian politics correspondent Ben Jacobs from the scene. | |
| The stance directly challenges Donald Trump’s assertion that whoever ends up with the most delegates – that’s likely him – should win the nomination, even if that person does not cross the 1,237 line. The stance also squares off against the view of a majority of Republican primary voters, who have told pollsters that they agree with Trump. | |
| Reince: The rules say you have to have 1237 delegates to be the nominee. We aren't going to hand the nomination to anyone with a plurality | |
| Reince rejects the anti-Trump movement but also makes clear Trump needs 1237 bound pledged delegates before Cleveland | |
| Reince: If no candidate reaches a majority of bound delegates during the primary process we will go to an open or contested convention | |
| Reince emphasizes that the 2016 convention is govern by rules written by 2016 delegates | |
| With the Priebus statement, it would appear very difficult for the national party apparatus to avoid a spectacular collision with the presidential frontrunner, should he fall short of the 1,237, which many models anticipate. | |
| This past weekend, Trump said of the convention, “You’re going to have a very, very upset and angry group of people at the convention. Now I hope that doesn’t happen because if I win, people are going to be very happy. I hope it doesn’t involve violence, and I don’t think it will, but I will say this: it’s a rigged system, it’s a crooked system, it’s 100% crooked.” | |
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| Cameron welcomes Obama | |
| Barack Obama has arrived at 10 Downing Street for a meeting with British prime minister David Cameron, following a lunch with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Obama and Cameron were to hold bilateral talks on topics including Britain’s upcoming referendum on whether to exit the European Union. | |
| Obama published a comment piece in the Telegraph Friday morning opposing the Brexit. “As citizens of the United Kingdom take stock of their relationship with the EU,” Obama wrote, “you should be proud that the EU has helped spread British values and practices – democracy, the rule of law, open markets – across the continent and to its periphery.” The piece continues: | |
| The European Union doesn’t moderate British influence – it magnifies it. A strong Europe is not a threat to Britain’s global leadership; it enhances Britain’s global leadership. The United States sees how your powerful voice in Europe ensures that Europe takes a strong stance in the world, and keeps the EU open, outward looking, and closely linked to its allies on the other side of the Atlantic. So the US and the world need your outsized influence to continue – including within Europe. | |
| For comprehensive coverage of the president’s visit to the UK, read Andrew Sparrow’s ongoing live blog out of London, which features a sample of the bracing reactions across Britain to the president’s stance on the Brexit, and which is a great place to catch up on reaction to London mayor Boris Johnson’s wild assertion that a Churchill bust was removed from the White House because the “part-Kenyan” Obama resents the British colonial legacy: | |
| Related: Boris Johnson accused of 'dog whistle racism' over Obama 'part-Kenyan' remark - Politics live | |
| Here are a couple more photos from the president’s trip: | |
| The Obamas came bearing gifts to mark the queen’s 90th birthday on Thursday: | |
| Birthday presents for the Queen from the Obamas pic.twitter.com/NvPkU3RWDl | |
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| Cruz hits Trump over transgender bathroom access | Cruz hits Trump over transgender bathroom access |
| The Ted Cruz campaign has produced a video ad hitting Donald Trump for expressing openness to people using a bathroom designated for a sex other than that listed on their birth certificates. | The Ted Cruz campaign has produced a video ad hitting Donald Trump for expressing openness to people using a bathroom designated for a sex other than that listed on their birth certificates. |
| “It’s not appropriate. It’s not safe. It’s PC nonsense that is destroying America,” the ad says. “Donald Trump won’t take on the PC police.” | “It’s not appropriate. It’s not safe. It’s PC nonsense that is destroying America,” the ad says. “Donald Trump won’t take on the PC police.” |
| Donald Trump won't take on the PC police...https://t.co/IZ1Xo3gxOg | Donald Trump won't take on the PC police...https://t.co/IZ1Xo3gxOg |
| 3.08pm BST | 3.08pm BST |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. New features of Donald Trump’s strategy for winning the race were revealed at a spring meeting of the Republican National Committee in Florida on Thursday, where Guardian politics correspondent Ben Jacobs reported that the candidate has plans to roll out a new persona, give a big foreign policy speech using a teleprompter and spend significant money on ads. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. New features of Donald Trump’s strategy for winning the race were revealed at a spring meeting of the Republican National Committee in Florida on Thursday, where Guardian politics correspondent Ben Jacobs reported that the candidate has plans to roll out a new persona, give a big foreign policy speech using a teleprompter and spend significant money on ads. |
| In an audio recording obtained by the Associated Press of a closed-door speech at the summit, top Trump lieutenant Paul Manafort told party officials that Trump had been “projecting an image” so far in the 2016 primary season and “the part that he’s been playing is now evolving”. | In an audio recording obtained by the Associated Press of a closed-door speech at the summit, top Trump lieutenant Paul Manafort told party officials that Trump had been “projecting an image” so far in the 2016 primary season and “the part that he’s been playing is now evolving”. |
| “When he’s out on the stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that purpose,” Manafort said. | “When he’s out on the stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that purpose,” Manafort said. |
| “You’ll start to see more depth of the person, the real person. You’ll see a real different guy,” he said. | “You’ll start to see more depth of the person, the real person. You’ll see a real different guy,” he said. |
| Trump agreed. | Trump agreed. |
| “I’m gonna be so presidential that you people will be so bored,” Trump told a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday night. “I’ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people I’ll have 150 people, and they’ll say, ‘Boy, he really looks presidential.’” | “I’m gonna be so presidential that you people will be so bored,” Trump told a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday night. “I’ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people I’ll have 150 people, and they’ll say, ‘Boy, he really looks presidential.’” |
| Part of the plan is for Trump to give a foreign policy speech Wednesday at National Press Club, Ben Jacobs reports, for which occasion the campaign has hired a speech writer and is having the candidate practice on a teleprompter. | Part of the plan is for Trump to give a foreign policy speech Wednesday at National Press Club, Ben Jacobs reports, for which occasion the campaign has hired a speech writer and is having the candidate practice on a teleprompter. |
| Worth noting that Trump himself has said on the stump he will change his "tone" dramatically when elected https://t.co/T5W5aLp8ZR | Worth noting that Trump himself has said on the stump he will change his "tone" dramatically when elected https://t.co/T5W5aLp8ZR |
| Read the full piece here: | Read the full piece here: |
| Related: Trump camp says persona is 'an act' as it woos GOP insiders | Related: Trump camp says persona is 'an act' as it woos GOP insiders |
| Ted Cruz, meanwhile, is hunting for delegates in Indiana, the importance of which is not to be underestimated. | Ted Cruz, meanwhile, is hunting for delegates in Indiana, the importance of which is not to be underestimated. |
| Some news: Ted Cruz quietly began TV advertising this week in Indiana. He's in for over $600k in Hoosier land now.. https://t.co/vKQtckh7jq | Some news: Ted Cruz quietly began TV advertising this week in Indiana. He's in for over $600k in Hoosier land now.. https://t.co/vKQtckh7jq |
| There’s some unpleasant news out of London this morning: Mayor Boris Johnson has ascribed what he perceives as a cooling in the special relationship with the US to a lingering resentment of the British colonial presence in Africa on the part of Barack Obama, whom Johnson calls “part-Kenyan” in a column for the Sun. | There’s some unpleasant news out of London this morning: Mayor Boris Johnson has ascribed what he perceives as a cooling in the special relationship with the US to a lingering resentment of the British colonial presence in Africa on the part of Barack Obama, whom Johnson calls “part-Kenyan” in a column for the Sun. |
| Musing on Obama’s stated desire for Britain to remain in the EU, Johnson seizes on the White House decision after Obama was installed to remove a bust of Churchill from the Oval Office. “No one was sure whether the President had himself been involved in the decision,” Johnson writes: | Musing on Obama’s stated desire for Britain to remain in the EU, Johnson seizes on the White House decision after Obama was installed to remove a bust of Churchill from the Oval Office. “No one was sure whether the President had himself been involved in the decision,” Johnson writes: |
| Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender. | Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender. |
| Some said that perhaps Churchill was seen as less important than he once was. Perhaps his ideas were old-fashioned and out of date. | Some said that perhaps Churchill was seen as less important than he once was. Perhaps his ideas were old-fashioned and out of date. |
| Thank you as ever for reading, and join us in the comments! | Thank you as ever for reading, and join us in the comments! |