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Several hundred enthusiastic supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gathered in a cavernous hangar at the local municipal airport for an Election Night rally, refusing to admit that the long primary campaign had finally been lost.

Bernie Sanders on Saturday reiterated his vow to keep campaigning all the way to Democratic National Convention, regardless of how the rest of the primaries turn out.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is campaigning hard in Southern California this week, determined to fight to the finish and deny Hillary Clinton her crowning moment in the June 7 California primary, forcing a “contested convention” in Philadelphia in July.

Sen. Ted Cruz conceded his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night after the Indiana primary election he called “pivotal” delivered frontrunner Donald Trump a win. Initial results in Indiana showed Cruz with 35.3 percent, Trump 53.6 percent, and

Harmeet Dhillon, who serves as Vice Chair of the California Republican Party and is a candidate for the Republican National Committee, urged the GOP to rally behind whoever the presidential nominee is, adding that the June 7 California primary could decide who that person will be.

A Ted Cruz delegate in Texas has set up a GoFundMe account to help her get to the Republican National Convention. She wants to be nominated as a national delegate so she can run for the Rules Committee. “We must not implode our own Party by bringing in a third nominee,” she told Breitbart Texas.

Sen. Ted Cruz said Wednesday morning that a contested Republican convention is certain and that supporters of Donald Trump are ultimately helping Hillary Clinton reach the White House.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he’s voting for Sen. Ted Cruz today to help get him into the White House, but there’s intense speculation he’s using Cruz to sideline Donald Trump so that the 2016 nomination goes to his fellow-Wisconsinite, House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters on Monday that the establishment’s idea to “parachute in some white knight” other than himself or Donald Trump is nothing but a “fevered pipe dream” that would cause a “revolt.”

Donald Trump is the winner of Arizona’s Republican presidential primary contest, but the Ted Cruz team is campaigning hard in that state — and others — to convince delegates to support him if the Republican National Convention moves beyond a first ballot.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz gained six delegates in Colorado on Saturday.

In the hopes of staving off the GOP establishment’s efforts to block his nomination at a contested convention, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump hired a new delegate manager who has successfully led similar convention battles over the past several decades.

Former Tennessee State Rep. Joe Carr, a Cruz delegate, tells Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon “there’s no question the establishment is going to try some shenanigans” at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July.

“What we need is a one-to-one contest. If we have that, my son Ted will be the clear winner,” Rafael Cruz told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily. “The polls have indicated time and time again, that in a one-on-one exchange, Ted Cruz would beat Donald Trump by about 17 points,” Rafael added.

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner called Republican presidential candidate and Texas senator Ted Cruz “Lucifer” after giving a speech at the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Florida.

With Ohio Gov. John Kasich having won his state’s GOP presidential primary, the national Republican Party is setting up the narrative that its future now depends on Kasich. In a press release, Kasich campaign chief strategist John Weaver said with