Donald Trump hits out at ‘desperate’ Cruz and Kasich after election pact

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump has hit out at a collaboration between Ted Cruz and John Kasich aimed at unifying the anti-Trump vote in some remaining primaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said his two rivals are colluding in a way that would be illegal in many industries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under the arrangement outlined on Sunday&comma; Mr Kasich&comma; the Ohio governor&comma; will step back in the Indiana contest on May 3 to let Mr Cruz bid for voters who do not like Mr Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Cruz&comma; a Texas senator&comma; will do the same for Mr Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said in a statement that Mr Cruz and Mr Kasich are &&num;8220&semi;mathematically dead&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; meaning neither can gather enough delegates to clinch the nomination before the party&&num;8217&semi;s July convention &&num;8211&semi; and their pact smacks of desperation by two &&num;8220&semi;puppets of donors and special interests&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The arrangement does not address the five north-eastern states set to vote tomorrow&comma; where Mr Trump is expected to add to his already overwhelming delegate lead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the shift offers Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to halt the billionaire&&num;8217&semi;s rise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Having Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for Republicans&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Cruz&&num;8217&semi;s campaign manager&comma; Jeff Roe&comma; said in a statement explaining the new plans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Not only would Trump get blown out by &lpar;Hillary&rpar; Clinton or &lpar;Bernie&rpar; Sanders&comma; but having him as our nominee would set the party back a generation&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Kasich&&num;8217&semi;s chief strategist&comma; John Weaver&comma; added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Our goal is to have an open convention in Cleveland&comma; where we are confident a candidate capable of uniting the party and winning in November will emerge as the nominee&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The announcement marks a sharp reversal for Mr Cruz&&num;8217&semi;s team&comma; which aggressively opposed co-ordinating anti-Trump efforts with Mr Kasich as recently as late last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the agreement applies only to Indiana&comma; Oregon and New Mexico &&num;8211&semi; three of the 15 states remaining on the Republican primary calendar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As Mr Kasich backs out of Indiana&comma; Mr Cruz promised he would not compete in Oregon on May 17 and New Mexico on June 7&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump campaigned in Maryland on Sunday&comma; which will vote on Tuesday along with Rhode Island&comma; Connecticut&comma; Pennsylvania and Delaware&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to several thousand people in a plane hangar in Hagerstown&comma; Maryland&comma; on Sunday evening&comma; Mr Trump stressed repeatedly that he expects to win the 1&comma;237 delegates needed in the first round of voting in Cleveland to stave off a contested convention&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I only care about the first&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re not going for the second and third and fourth and fifth&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As recently as three days ago Mr Kasich&&num;8217&semi;s campaign announced investments in Indiana&comma; including the opening of two offices and the creation of a campaign leadership team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the Democratic side&comma; underdog Mr Sanders rallied thousands of voters in two New England states and offered mixed signals on how hard he would push his differences with the commanding front-runner&comma; Mrs Clinton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Vermont senator largely steered clear of Mrs Clinton at a Rhode Island park&comma; but hours later delivered a sharp critique before more than 14&comma;000 supporters in New Haven&comma; Connecticut&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Sanders reiterated his call for Mrs Clinton to release transcripts of lucrative Wall Street speeches she delivered after leaving the State Department in early 2013&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed1204b0961">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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