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Cruz, Sanders hold on to Indiana primary as last hope to continue race to White House

WASHINGTON, April 30 (KUNA) -- US Republican Party is heading toward nominating the billionaire front-runner Donald Trump as their presidential candidate, unless next Tuesday's Indiana primary keeps Ted Cruz in the race for the White House.
Indiana has 56 delegates up for grabs which the second-runner Cruz needs desperately to put a halt on Trump's winning streak especially when he massively grabbed the delegates of six northeastern states last Tuesday bringing his tally to around 995 out of 1237 needed to be the nominee and avoid a contested Republican convention in Cleveland this summer, Cruz has about 565.
Cruz, who has formed an alliance with third-runner John Kasich last weekend where the former wouldn't campaign in upcoming Indiana primary, hopes to stop the billionaire mongrel being the nominee and is heavily campaigning this week alongside his official vice president choice, former candidate Carly Fiorina in the state.
Meanwhile, Trump who has been calling for a physical wall to separate the border between the US and Mexico has been facing major protests while campaigning in California this week ahead of the states 7th of January primary which could be the decisive one with the massive 172 delegates it holds.
Protesters clashed with police in several scenes in San Francisco north of the state and earlier Orange County in the south as they attempted disrupt organized speeches billionaire mongrel had organized in the immigrant-heavy western state leading to at least 17 arrests.
On the other hand, and in the Democratic Party, Hilary Clinton, who leads by a good margin, also hopes to continues her recent winning streak by grabbing the most out of the 92 delegates Indiana has to offer to add to her already 2165 delegates, with only about 220 delegates needed to semi-lock in the nomination.
Clinton won four out of five states in last Tuesday primaries while Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won only Rhode Island.
Sanders who has around 1357 delegates mainly lacks super delegate, high-ranking officials or ex-officials who can change support up to the convention in July, with Clinton listed to have 520 super delegates and Sander only 39, but differ only in about 300 normal pledged delegates from across the states so far.
Sanders, the self-proclaimed democratic-socialists with dwindling chances to win his Party's nominee, needs to stop Clinton from winning a handful of delegates before needing to depend solely on super delegates to win the nomination. (end) yt.tg