“Because if and when we stop him on Super Tuesday, that’s how we end up beating Donald and nominating a proven conservative, which is what it’s going to take to beat Hillary”.
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Offering his recollection of a scene backstage at Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, Trump said he thought Rubio “was going down”.
Hillary Clinton – boosted by her huge win in SC on Saturday – is meanwhile hoping to start locking out her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, who is giving her a tougher-than-expected challenge, by showing the strength of the Southern foundation of minority voters on which her campaign is built. Conservative establishment types lean toward Rubio and evangelicals often choose Cruz or retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Trump, who vowed Friday to “open up” libel laws to make it easier for public figures to sue the media for besmirching their records, expanded the idea to politicians like Rubio.
It’s Trump who may stand tallest on Tuesday night. Cruz said separately on CNN’s “State of the Union”. “One, I think they think it’s going to be good for ratings and two because they know they have a lot of material to work with”.
“He called me Mr. Meltdown”.
Rubio added on CBS that Trump “is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history”. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas – will get a share of them as well. But a Cruz win in Texas would present a significant road block.
“The candidate that’s gonna win this is gonna get that by getting 1,237 delegates”. Sanders and Clinton are facing off for 865 of the 2,383 delegates needed to win the Democratic race.
On ABC, Sanders noted that he still garnered strong support from voters under the age of 30, and he predicted he would fare better overall in Super Tuesday states like Minnesota, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and his native Vermont.
The Republicans are in a deep hole and I do not see them coming out of it right now.
His rally came days before Arkansas’ Tuesday primary, which has been coined the “SEC primary”.
And for the rest of Governor Christie’s schedule over the weekend, his press office is referring all questions to the Donald Trump Presidential Campaign. But the brash billionaire is winning Georgia by 30 percentage points over Cruz and Marco Rubio, who are tied at 23%. And it played into former candidate Chris Christie’s endorsement of the erstwhile reality star he had once billed as unfit for the presidency.
Rubio also mocked Trump for his complexion, as he has before, accusing him of having a bad “spray tan”.
Rubio is fighting for a second spot with Cruz in the Republican presidential primary. But it’s possible that Trump could barnstorm to victories in as many as 10 contests and whip up an unstoppable tailwind.
Both Rubio and a fourth candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, are looking ahead to home state primaries on March 15.
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This poll was in the field while Republicans were holding their most recent debate, so the impact of that debate would have been felt by only some of the respondents. But the euphoria could be dampened by the Super Tuesday math.
