Politics & Government
Ted Cruz to Campaign at Bethesda Diner Monday
GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz -- in third place in Maryland -- will appear at a meet and greet Monday morning in Bethesda.
BETHESDA, MD — Running in third place in Maryland among likely GOP voters, presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will hold a campaign rally Monday morning in Bethesda.
Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
The morning meet and greet in Bethesda will include former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. The event will be held at the Tastee Diner, 7731 Woodmont Ave. from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.
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In the afternoon, Cruz has a rally planned in Towson at the American Legion hall, 125 York Road in. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. for the 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. rally on Monday, April 18.
Maryland’s primary election will be held April 26; polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day.
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Early voting in Maryland began April 14 and runs through Thursday, April 21. Polling places are open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. those days.
You can vote in an early voting center in the Maryland county where you live. See a list of the 2016 Primary early voting sites (PDF).
Races from presidential contests to the state legislature will be on ballots across Maryland.
The Republican presidential campaign seems to become more jumbled every day, with much riding on the April 19 New York primary. New York businessman Donald Trump leads in a poll released last week of Maryland likely voters, with dogged Ohio Gov. John Kasich in second place and Cruz in third.
The average of the four polls, not accounting for margin of error, was 40.8 percent for Trump, 25 percent for Kasich and 23.8 percent for Cruz.
And the Democratic presidential contest in Maryland will be a close-fought primary, with Sen. Bernie Sanders attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an effort to close the gap. The average of the recent polls shows Clinton has a lead of at least 14 percentage points over Sanders.
Along with Maryland, April 26 is primary election day in Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
Pictured, Ted Cruz at National Harbor, Md. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmire/Flickr/Creative Commons.
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