Republican Donald Trump amped up attacks against rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich on Monday after they announced an agreement to try to block the New York billionaire from winning the party's U.S. presidential nomination.
Trump is expected to sweep the five states holding primary elections on Tuesday, prompting Cruz and Kasich to announce their unusual tactic of agreeing not to compete against each other in Indiana, New Mexico and Oregon.
In a sign that Cruz has no intention of backing out of the race before the July convention in Cleveland, his campaign manger Jeff Roe posted on Twitter on Monday that they had narrowed the search for a vice presidential running mate to a "short list" and were vetting potential candidates. Traditionally, candidates wait until they have secured the nomination to select a running mate.
Trump denounced the move by his opponents to band together as disgusting and compared it to illegal collusion in stock trading.
"It shows how weak they are. It shows how pathetic they are," Trump told a crowd in Warwick, Rhode Island.
He revived attacks against Cruz that none of his fellow senators like him and mocked Kasich for the way he ate breakfast during a televised news conference on Monday morning.
Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas and Trump's closest challenger, said the deal with Kasich was aimed at preventing a Trump nomination that he argues would assure victory for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
The Cruz-Kasich deal was announced on Sunday before a handful of primary elections in several mid-Atlantic states on Tuesday. It is the latest unusual move in what has been a topsy-turvy Republican presidential race in which early favorites fell to political outsider Trump, whose unexpected rise has left establishment Republicans grappling with a new order.
"It's another exciting day in Republican politics," Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer said on MSNBC.
To derail Trump, the Cruz and Kasich campaigns agreed to concentrate their efforts and resources in state contests where each has a better shot. Cruz will focus on Indiana's May 3 primary without competition from Kasich, while Cruz will stand aside in favor of Kasich in Oregon's May 17 primary and New Mexico's June 7 vote.
Trump, who often talks about being the consummate dealmaker, accused his rivals of "a horrible act of desperation" by colluding in Oregon, New Mexico and Indiana.
"You know, if you collude in business or if you collude in the stock market, they put you in jail,” Trump said in Warwick. "But in politics - because it’s a rigged system, because it’s a corrupt enterprise - in politics, you’re allowed to collude."
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