These estimates line up with other polling data – HuffPost Pollster’s average has shown Clinton and Sanders polling higher than Trump, although prinmary poll matchups aren’t predictive of what will happen once the general election campaigns start.
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The contests come at a turbulent moment for Republicans as they grapple with the prospect of Trump becoming the party’s nominee.
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Meanwhile, two Republican presidential hopefuls, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, would both defeat Clinton in other theoretical matchups in the new poll.
Texan Cruz was fighting to wrench the bulk of his state’s 155 delegates from the Trump camp, a crucial step on the Cruz path toward a possible nomination.
661 Republican delegates will be allocated, based on Super Tuesday, and 865 delegates for Democrats. Strong performances will also give him some delegates but if Clinton meets expectations on Super Tuesday and wins most of the states, her overall count will be hard for Sanders to match.
Republicans are holding caucuses in Colorado, Minnesota, Alaska and Wyoming. She is expected to do especially well in the swath of southern states because they are home to a large population of black voters, who overwhelmingly favor her. It helps Clinton that she is coming off a landslide victory in South Carolina’s primary last Saturday, where she trounced Bernie Sanders, winning 86 percent of black voters.
Texas is among 12 states taking part in Super Tuesday – billed as the biggest single-day delegate haul of the nomination contests.
In Springfield earlier yesterday, she took a direct shot at Donald Trump, saying, “I don’t think America ever stopped being great, right now we need to make America whole”. She has double-digit leads in polls in states like Virginia, Arkansas (where Bill Clinton was governor) and Texas.
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A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a sign at a rally in Arkansas on February 27, 2016.
Asked by reporters in Boston if he would hurt the party’s chances if he carried on, Sanders said only 15 states will have voted by Tuesday and it was “more than appropriate” to let people “vote for the candidate of their choice”. He’ll do well in a couple for sure, and could win at least four states, out of the dozen up for grabs.
Just under half of those who responded would not commit to backing him, foreshadowing a potentially extraordinary break this autumn. Their reluctance foreshadowed a potentially extraordinary split in the party this fall.
The worries among Republicans appeared to grow after Trump briefly refused to disavow former white supremacist leader David Duke during a television interview.
Republicans spent months largely letting Mr Trump go unchallenged, wrongly assuming that his populist appeal with voters would fizzle. The brash billionaire and his army of outsider voters are positioned to frighten through the Republican establishment by narrowing his grip on the party’s nomination.
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Colvin reported from Valdosta, Georgia.
