Rubio and Cruz argued that with roughly 70 percent of Republican voters consistently voting for someone other than Trump, they have an opening as the Republican field keeps shrinking. Nevada’s Republican caucuses are Tuesday, and then a dozen states vote in the March 1 Super Tuesday bonanza. Marco Rubio of Florida, a former Bush protégé, was considered a Tea Party insurgent just a few years ago. But about a fifth of Republican voters said they wouldn’t back Trump (20 percent), Cruz (18 percent) or Rubio (17 percent) no matter what.
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Trump acknowledged that he probably needs to act more presidential.
“I believe the only way to beat the Democrats is to nominate a candidate who has a significantly different record”, Cruz said, borrowing a phrase from Ronald Reagan.
This is not about going after Donald Trump, it isn’t.
Rubio has reason to be skittish.
Despite spending far more money than any other campaign on television advertising and his allied superPAC dropping millions to attack his rivals, Bush garnered less than 3 percent of the vote in Iowa and placed fourth in New Hampshire.
In television appearances on Sunday, Trump appeared uncharacteristically modest and took pains to lower expectations that his path to the Republican nomination was now clear. “I have some advantages but it will be hard”, the 69-year-old billionaire businessman told NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
This is Trump’s second victory in a row after the New Hampshire elections.
Her win means she will pick up at least 18 of Nevada’s 35 delegates, while Mr Trump is also accumulating a delegate lead among Republicans.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is once again casting doubt on a Cuban American rival’s eligibility to run for the White House – only this time, he’s leveling his citizenship questions at Florida Sen. Cruz can not afford to lose as many evangelical voters to Donald Trump as he did in SC because he has not shown that he is able to pull any significant number of voters outside of that demographic. “I’m a better person than the people I’m running against”. “But who the nominee is going to be is not my choice and – and obviously, uh, we’re going to support whoever that is”.
But the host of “Decode DC” warns people shouldn’t jump to conclusions about Trump just yet. “We’re not going to beat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders if we’re still divided in September and October”, Rubio says.
“I will win states that aren’t in play”.
By winning both SC and New Hampshire and holding leads in 13 states that hold Republican contests on March 1, Trump was arguably on track to win the nomination, an outcome that seemed astounding to contemplate when he entered the race last summer.
Those sweeping predictions aside, Trump tried to contain expectations in several television appearances.
Saturday’s results were bad news for Jeb Bush, Ohio governor John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who were relegated to the second tier of candidates. Who do they not want to run against? And, you know, I don’t think, I don’t see where this a convention.
He said the GOP race is increasingly about “who can win”. “It wasn’t his time”.
The presidential candidacy of former Florida Governor Jeb “Jus’ Jeb!” “You have noticed that one of the recent national polls actually had us ahead of Hillary Clinton, in state after state her margin is narrowing”. “So tonight, I am suspending my campaign”.
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O’Connell said Clinton is expected to do well in the Southern states going forward, as the former first lady is a favorite among African Americans in the region, and in many states that bloc comprises half of the Democratic electorate.
