Kasich’s deli visit landed him in New York’s 15th Congressional District, which ranks as the most Democratic district in the country. Republicans are outnumbered 13 to 1 in this portion of the Bronx. But it still has three delegates to offer, like every other district in New York, which is why both Kasich and rival Ted Cruz campaigned here in recent days in their efforts to stay in the delegate hunt with front-runner Donald Trump.
The day before, Cruz, the firebrand senator from Texas, met with ministers and (unsuccessfully) dodged hecklers at a Chinese-Dominican restaurant…
“We’re getting massively positive earned media,” said Kasich strategist John Weaver. “We’re actively working that market for a variety of reasons; one of them’s the number of districts where we think we can get delegates. There are not a lot of Republicans voting there, but the ones who are we have a good shot at keeping or converting.”
But in conversations, Bronx Republicans said that Cruz’s campaign had done the most to reach them. “Cruz’s campaign was the only one that reached out to me,” Humberto Negron, 38, said after working a shift representing Republicans at the board of elections. “They wanted to sort of emphasize their values and their point of views, and that it’s reflective of the Bronx.”
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