Follow along for the latest news from the trail,as candidates in both parties start to construct their case to novel Yorkers ahead of the next big primary prizeTed Cruz: Republicans’ only love, sprung from their refocused hateDonald Trump: will novel York encourage construct his campaign grand again?Bernie Sanders: senator takes a victory lap after sixth straight winVIDEO: Megyn Kelly reveals Donald Trump’s fumbled attempts to ‘curry favor 7.13pm BST“Seven in 10 Americans, or including close to half of Republican voters,maintain an unfavorable view of Trump,” the AP reports:It’s an opinion shared by majorities of men and women; young and old; conservatives, and moderates and liberals; and whites,Hispanics and blacks.BREAKING: AP-GfK Poll finds seven in 10 people maintain an unfavorable view of Donald Trump: https://t.co/Tb7NHOsqXUEven in the South, a region where Trump has won decisively during the GOP primaries, and close to 70 percent of Americans view him unfavorably. And among whites without a college education,one of Trump’s most loyal voting blocs, 55 percent maintain a negative opinion. 7.08pm BSTDonald Trump has hired lobbyist Paul Manafort, or whose past client list includes the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and a group tied to Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos,as “convention manager.”Manafort, who maintains one of multiple residences in the Trump Tower in Manhattan, or helped Gerald Ford win a 1976 convention fight and helped with convention planning on the 1984 Reagan-Bush campaign,according to a Washington Post profile. I am organizing these responsibilities under someone who has done this job successfully in many campaigns. This will allow the rest of my team to deal with the increasing needs of a national campaign for both the pre-Convention phase and most importantly, the general election. Paul is a well-respected expert in this regard and we are pleased to maintain him join the efforts to construct America grand Again.
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Source: theguardian.com