Presidential Candidates Turn Their Attention To Next Stop On Primary Calendar: Indiana
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Indiana is up next in the race for the presidential nomination.
On the GOP side, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is hoping the Hoosier State responds well to his early announcement of a vice presidential choice. He and his former rival Carly Fiorina are on the road for the first time as running mates, campaigning Thursday in Indiana ahead of its primary, CBS2's Craig Boswell reported.
And Cruz isn't the only candidate with company on the campaign trail.
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Basketball coaching legend Bobby Knight endorsed Donald Trump in Indianapolis before the Republican presidential front-runner turned his attention to Cruz.
"Cruz can't win, what's he doing picking vice presidents?" Trump said. "He is the first presidential candidate in the history of this country who's mathematically eliminated from becoming president who chose a vice presidential candidate."
Cruz would need to win 109 percent of the remaining delegates to lock up the nomination, Boswell reported. Cruz's only hope is to stop Trump from winning enough delegates before the convention.
John Kasich, who is trailing far behind both Trump and Cruz, has stopped campaigning in the Hoosier state all together.
"I'm not gonna be campaigning in Indiana," he said this week. "Voters can figure out what they want to do."
Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton is taking a break from the campaign trail Thursday, while Bernie Sanders' campaign is facing the reality that he's unlikely to win.
The campaign laid off about 200 people, leaving Sanders with about 300 staffers. Despite the move, Sanders is on the trail in Indiana ahead of Tuesday's primary and he says he's in the race until the end.
The Sanders campaign says they hope to rehire many of the staffers if the senator wins the Democratic nomination.
