Cruz has determined that he would not back down in spite of Trump’s attacks.
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“They are right now are in the closing period of a campaign”, Cruz said, adding his campaign is “focused on any accomplishments that Rubio has”.
Carson, who once topped the polls but has found his support slipping, appeared in the opening hour, saying that if he were in President Barack Obama’s position he would nominate a Supreme Court justice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died over the weekend. The senator challenged Trump to file his lawsuit, saying that he may take on the case himself.
Earlier Wednesday Rubio picked up the most coveted endorsement in SC — from gov. Nikki haley.
Ted Cruz has already had one of his ads pulled off the air concerning Senator Rubio because it was totally false.
So-called establishment Republicans worry that Trump or Cruz could jeopardize the party’s chances of winning in November’s general election.
The Republican results marked an improvement for Donald Trump since his win in the 9 February New Hampshire primary, when he led Senator Cruz by 18.4 points in the national rolling survey, although the increase remained within the poll’s credibility interval. But like the NBC poll, it showed that Trump had a slight drop (3%) in popularity in the past week.
Jeb Bush, who has shared advice on education issues with the governor and helped her raise money for her re-election bid in 2014, also was considered a top contender to win Haley’s endorsement.
Mr. Bush trailed in fifth place with 8 percent in a Monmouth University poll of likely Republican voters in SC that was released Wednesday. That’s up from 26% who said the same in July of 2015, when Trump entered the race.
At the beginning of his town hall appearance, Rubio defended accusing Cruz of lying on the campaign trail.
However, if Mr Rubio bags the party’s nomination she is unlikely to be on his ticket because the two leaders are from the same region of the country and both of their parents are immigrants.
“This has not been a typical race by any sense”, Cruz said at CNN’s SC town hall ahead of Saturday’s Republican primary. The state coordinators for Ted Cruz’s campaign are Pawtucket GOP Chairman Lester Olson and North Providence resident John Donovan.
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