The polls found that Clinton often had higher negative ratings with voters than did the more-controversial Trump, whose inflammatory pronouncements have often angered and even horrified many of his fellow Republicans. In Georgia, Clinton leads Sanders by more than two-to-one, 64 percent to 30 percent, among likely Democratic primary voters.
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Donald Trump is poised to score another series of wins in this week’s Super Tuesday primary contest – and the prospect of a Trump nominee is shaking and dividing the Republican Party.
In two interviews on Sunday, Cruz repeatedly pressed the Republican front-runner to release his latest tax information and said Trump might be holding back because of his “business dealings with the mob”.
Meanwhile, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is hoping to try to overcome a stinging defeat in SC, where Hillary Clinton beat him by nearly 50 percent on Saturday. On the Democratic side, Clinton’s once-shaky lead over Sen. The poll was taken February 24-27. She moved the dial up three points from January, though that’s within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 5 points. Marco Rubio (16 percent), Ohio Gov. John Kasich (15 percent) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz questioned whether Donald Trump’s tax returns contained information linking the billionaire mogul to organized crime.
Following Thursday night’s heated Republican debate, Texas Senator Kevin Eltife says Trump is using Christie’s endorsement to spin the media attention.
Among people supporting other candidates, 57 percent said they are committed.
“We’re about to lose the conservative movement to someone who’s not a conservative and (lose) the party of Lincoln and Reagan to a con artist”, Rubio said Sunday on Fox News.
Fifty-one percent of those polled said Trump would be most effective at solving the country’s problems while 48 percent said he’d best be able to handle the role of commander-in-chief.
“Well, listen I’ll wait to comment on endorsements when they actually happen rather than comment on speculation”, he told reporters before taking the stage. “If he’s not been completely honest or has supported the most radical left-wing groups in America, voters deserve to know”. “He should sue whoever did that to his face with that”, Rubio said after referring to Trump’s private plane as “Hair Force One”.
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And, in what’s also good news for both frontrunners, 70 percent of voters see Clinton and Trump winning their parties respective nominations.
