Ted Cruz cancels Fayetteville Tech visit
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has canceled a North Carolina appearance scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Posted — UpdatedLast week, Dr. Larry Keen, president of Fayetteville Technical Community College, said his campus would host the candidate Monday afternoon in the Horace Sisk Gym.
On Sunday, a spokesperson for Cruz's campaign announced that Cruz would not be paying a visit to the school and his wife would appear in his place. The event is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
Cruz will instead be appearing in Illinois on Monday.
The U.S. senator from Texas taped an interview Tuesday with Fox News in front of hundreds of cheering, sign-waving supporters at Calvary Baptist Church south of Raleigh and then headed to Kannapolis for a campaign rally at a church there.
A week before the March 15 primary, Cruz trailed Trump by 14 points in a WRAL News poll released Tuesday.
North Carolina awards its delegates proportionally according to the order of finish in the primary, so even a strong second-place finish could give Cruz dozens of the state's 72 GOP delegates, which could prevent Trump from winning an outright majority of delegates before the convention.
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