Only five Republicans were left in the race for the White House Sunday, and frontrunner Donald Trump hammered home the idea that he is the only one who could defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton in November.
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Cruz on Saturday characterized a two-man contest as well – between him and Trump, but Rubio has repeatedly pushed the notion of a three-man race since the SC primary.
Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders, a senator from Vermont, in the Iowa caucuses but lost the Democratic primary in New Hampshire on February 9.
Dold – an Illinois Republican running for reelection in one of the most competitive districts in the country – may be caught in what some Republicans fear will be a powerful Trump downdraft, sinking vulnerable down-ballot Republican candidates instead of lifting them up. His campaign deserves blame for not realizing that Trump was serious from the get-go and not adjusting Jeb’s gentlemanly pitch to better fit the electorate. “There’s something wrong with this guy”, Trump said Monday night as he slammed Cruz for the senator’s campaign tactics, including the attack ads Cruz and his allies have run against Trump.
“They don’t understand that as people drop out, I’m going to get a lot of those votes also”.
He then quipped, “You know, insane things happen in the world of politics”.
But he insisted he did not think the race would come down to a so-called brokered Republican convention in July – a situation in which none of the candidates has an absolute majority of nominating delegates. In many ways, Trump defined his candidacy as the antidote for Bush-ism: An anti-establishment truth teller who was dependent on no one other than his own deep pockets. A total of 1,237 are needed to win the nomination. In an interview last month with Field and Stream magazine, Trump expressed some opposition to transferring control of the land to the states, suggesting the federal government may be a more trustworthy guardian.
“There’s not real, rational arguments against him”, she said.
“If I win NY, the election’s over”, he said. “If other candidates choose to go into the gutter, we will not do the same”. He says he intends to show voters that Trump is all style and no substance.
He specifically cited Trump’s favorable view of Russian President Vladimir Putin as worrisome.
Cruz told reporters Monday he has asked his campaign spokesman, Rick Tyler, to resign for tweeting a story that falsely alleged Rubio insulted the Bible. “Our base on the ground is strong”. Gravis called 53 percent for Hillary Clinton and 47 percent for Bernie Sanders – both of which were nearly dead-on. It was a needed rebound after her loss in New Hampshire. SC votes in the next Democratic primary on Saturday.
“To me, the only logical one is either Kasich or Rubio”, Al Hoffman, former finance chairman for the Republican National Committee, told USA Today. It is just a year of personality, not message. And he is young, he’s 44, he’s two years older than Kennedy was when he was elected; three years younger than Obama when Obama was elected.
“I do think Trump has a ceiling, probably around 40 per cent, and that he’s not going to do much better than that”, explained University of MA political science professor Brian Schaffner, who also directs the UMass Poll.
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Speaking on CBS’s Face the Nation, Kasich predicted he would do well in Virginia, a presidential bellwether that is among the almost dozen states voting next week.
