The “Super Tuesday” on March 1 is the biggest day of the 2016 USA presidential primary primary season, with 12 states and one territory participating: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming and American Samoa.
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In Georgia, Trump gets support from 30 percent of likely Republican voters – followed by Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio tied at 23 percent each, and Ben Carson and John Kasich tied at 9 percent each.
“You don’t know what he’s going to say”, Cruz told reporters. Trump also said he has no plans to release his tax returns until an Internal Revenue Service audit is finished.
Host Chuck Todd called out the accusation, calling it “openly speculative”.
Cruz became the first Trump opponent to invoke his history of dealings with mafia families on construction deals in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” as he questioned why the real estate mogul won’t release those returns. That wolf is Christie, and he found his alpha in Donald Trump.
CNN reported in July that Trump used the mob-controlled concrete company S&A to build Trump Plaza condos in Manhattan, citing the investigation of Wayne Barrett, a journalist who wrote an unauthorized biography of Trump.
Rubio’s campaign didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment.
‘Now maybe his tax returns show that those business dealings [with the Mafia] are a lot more extensive than has been reported’.
PHOTOS: Marco Rubio rally in Kennesaw.
Every major party candidate since 1976 has released his full tax returns at some point during the campaign, according to Joseph Thorndike, a tax historian and contributing editor to Tax Notes, an accounting trade publication. “They’re going to tell him apart, everything he’s ever done, from not releasing his taxes to all of his failed business dealings”.
“I will support the Republican nominee”, Cruz said.
Cruz, without having seen any of Trump’s returns, suggested a number of things that might make a candidate drag his feet: There may be a “bombshell in them”, as 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney recently suggested; they may show he is not as wealthy as he claims to be; and they may reveal he has made donations to “left-wing organizations” such as Planned Parenthood.
Mr Cruz said: “If Donald is embarrassed about his tax returns, it’s up to the voters to assess the facts”.
If Marco Rubio had stuck to his position in support of immigration reform he would be doing better in these Republican primaries.
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Florida Sen. Rubio picked up Monday where he left off over the weekend, dogging the GOP front-runner for not disavowing Sunday a white supremacist and the Ku Klux Klan. We are neck-and-neck. You know, 65 percent of Republican primary voters don’t think Donald Trump is the right candidate to go head-to-head with Hillary Clinton. He said that the questioner in the earlier phone-in interview had asked about Duke and various “other groups”, and that he didn’t want to disavow groups whose identity he didn’t know.
