Taylor, a political scientist at North Carolina State University. “I don’t know how you pick your way through it,” said Andrew J. At stake are 1,081 delegates to the party’s summer convention it takes 1,191 to win the nomination. The endorsements came as the GOP hopefuls pivoted into a vastly more complicated fight for their party’s presidential nomination, an unprecedented day of balloting in 21 states sprawled across three times zones and more than 3,000 miles.Īmong the states voting Tuesday are California, Illinois, Georgia, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

“John McCain is the most qualified candidate to be the next commander in chief of the United States,” Giuliani said, as McCain stood next to him.

Arnold Schwarzenegger.įormer New York City Mayor Giuliani, who spent months atop national polls but never finished better than third in any contest, quit the race at a Simi Valley news conference, where he hailed the Arizona senator as a friend and an “American hero.” Giuliani and, in a reversal of his promised neutrality, Gov. John McCain sought to fasten his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Wed- nesday by securing high-profile endorsements from erstwhile rival Rudolph W.

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