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Cruz outmaneuvering Trump in hand-to-hand GOP delegate fight

Cruz outmaneuvering Trump in hand-to-hand GOP delegate fight

Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — While the focus of the Republican presidential campaign shifts eastward to the New York primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is pivoting west, where he is quietly trying to chip away at Donald Trump's lead in the race for convention delegates.

Cruz won six pledged delegates during a pair of obscure, congressional-level Colorado GOP assemblies on Saturday. He is also poised to make gains in several other western Republican contests, including a possible sweep of Colorado's remaining assemblies, due to conclude Saturday. Cruz's success in the complex delegate game is helping him counter Trump's headline-grabbing wins in big states and would give the Texas senator a tactical advantage should the party's presidential nomination come down to a rare contested convention.

‘Millionaire tax’ vote put off to at least May
Massachusetts

‘Millionaire tax’ vote put off to at least May

State House News Service

BOSTON — A vote on a surtax aimed at people who earn $1 million or more won't occur until May 18 at the earliest, after Beacon Hill lawmakers recessed a Constitutional Convention without taking up the measure Wednesday.

The tax increase, in the form of a ballot proposal to amend the state constitution (H 3933), would add a 4 percent surtax on incomes over $1 million. The state revenue department has estimated the tax could add almost $2 billion to the government's coffers, a figure disputed by other analysts.

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