Trump and Clinton will be bringing their delegates momentum into Super Tuesday/SEC Primary on March 1. Trump has two rivals standing in his way: US Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
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If Trump wins, the news will be who came in second.
He reminded voters that Nevada is just one stop on the primary calendar with upcoming contests throughout March.
He has also been raising a lot of money, having amassed $85 million, putting him second only to Cruz’s $104 million. Right now, though, too many Republican voters still believe they have other options. The state Republican Party switched from the more voter-accessible primary system for the 2008 election campaign, and there are concerns the caucus could be plagued by technical glitches and logistical challenges.
Trump was in Georgia exulting over his latest victory, Cruz headed for Nevada, and Rubio embarked on a Tennessee-Arkansas-Nevada trifecta. A one-time local Republican official, Erickson said the party “will not deserve my support and will not get it if it chooses to nominate a pro-abortion liberal masquerading as a conservative”.
“Rubio and Cruz were pummeled”. And when the candidates weren’t directing their fire at each other, they used scattered appearances on the eve of Tuesday’s caucuses to assail Clinton, a former NY senator as well as the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Chris Christie, another establishment favourite, dropped out after New Hampshire.
U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, the Okeechobee Republican chairing Rubio’s Florida campaign, said he expects a wave of contributions to Rubio from former Bush backers.
At a later rally in Franklin, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb, Rubio took note of the smaller GOP field after Jeb Bush’s departure from the race, and celebrated his biggest crowd of the campaign, estimated at more than 3,000 people. As those choices narrow we’re going to start to pick up more support.
It seemed, in theory, that the evangelical, staunchly conservative Texan Ted Cruz could be more appealing to Southern voters than Trump, a New Yorker who is not particularly ideologically conservative or religious.
And all of that support won’t go to Rubio.
Cruz responded that President Barack Obama is going to Cuba. Couple his support with the 15% who are undecided right now, and that could be enough to tip the scales toward one candidate.
Rubio has been saying he’s the best candidate to win the general election.
Trump was the big victor in that state on Saturday, finishing ahead of Rubio by 10 percentage points.
In Nevada, Democrat Hillary Clinton celebrated an important win in that party’s race, strengthening her status as frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
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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.
