While Trump posed a challenge to the entire Republican field, his dominance seemed especially damaging to Christie, who had branded himself the “telling it like it is” candidate. The Kasich campaign is gearing up to win the MI primary in March, dominate at home in OH, and swipe delegates from Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia, Tennessee and even MS, a deep South state Mr. Weaver claimed Mr. Kasich could win.
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Marco Rubio enters Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate facing huge pressure to right his campaign after faltering badly in the last contest and finishing a disappointing fifth in New Hampshire. “Now”, he added, “it’s up to SC to pick a president”. He then repeated another talking point, seeming to notice the mishap, just two days later. A strong debate performance could be crucial as the candidates try to reach the voters who are next in line to cast their ballots – in SC and Nevada. However, his decision to remain in the race certainly comes as something of a surprise for spectators.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders were moving on Wednesday from commanding wins in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary to more diverse states that will challenge their transformation from outsider candidates to their parties’ presidential nominees. They’ve been sparring from afar for weeks but have so far kept their acrimony off the debate stage.
“Ted Cruz is the definition of sleaze” a tweet that was retweeted by Trump said.
If Cruz “doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen”, Trump wrote.
New Hampshire destroyed any momentum Rubio had coming out of Iowa and for now, at least, locks the senator into a messy muddle in his party’s establishment wing.
The Florida senator went on to jab Trump, as well. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie essentially took out Rubio in a political murder-suicide.
Mr. Weaver didn’t reveal the size of the ad buy either, but promised Mr. Kasich, whose record as OH governor is more conservative than his rhetoric sometimes suggests, would defy the low expectations being placed upon him. “That message was heard by and stood for by a lot of people, but just not enough and that’s OK”.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a one-time Republican frontrunner, continues to fade from the race.
“Of course they’re gonna campaign for me – they love me, I love them”.
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Clinton’s loss to Sanders in the New Hampshire primary by 22 percentage points was especially painful because she lost with women, her presumed base of support as she tries to become the country’s first female president. Rand Paul, to end their campaigns.
