Monmouth University has Trump in front with 36 percent, Cruz at 23 percent, Kasich 21 percent, and Rubio 13 percent.
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Yet with Florida’s 99 delegates and Ohio’s 66, Trump would only need about half the delegates in remaining states.
But luckily Rubio, who hopes to be the Republican nominee found the amusing side and was later seen smiling as he sported a pink lipstick mark on his cheek.
Trump won in radically diverse states Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii on Tuesday night, while US Sen.
Rubio’s only shot at staying in the race and winning the nomination is to win Florida outright.
Janet Claypool of Windermere used to support Rubio.
While the poll is undoubtedly welcome news for both the Cruz and Rubio campaigns, they give fodder to Cruz’s argument that he’s better poised to take Trump down.
“They’re saying barring some better polling… he will likely suspend before Florida”, Fox host Charles Gasparino reported, “That’s what his money-men here in New York City are telling me”.
“Agree or disagree with Marco Rubio on various issues, he offers IL voters the framework of a presidency that realistically could exist”, the board wrote.
Rubio’s team only recently began opening campaign offices and making other efforts to mount a get-out-the-vote effort in the state.
“You just don’t do that”, said Bill Kunkler, another Chicago Republican who backed Bush but stopped short of the pivot to Rubio.
Rubio has no commitments in IL this week, although Conservative Solutions PAC, a super political action committee, backing the senator has spent over a half-million dollars on anti-Trump ads in IL. Self-described Tea Party members go 48 percent for Trump, 40 percent for Cruz and 9 percent for Rubio.
Based on complete but unofficial returns, the state GOP says it expects Trump will get 12 of Louisiana’s statewide delegates and Cruz will get 11.
Two weeks ago, one statewide poll showed he trailed Donald Trump 45 to 25 percent.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off in a heated debate ahead of tomorrow’s key primary in MI. “He’s the only one who’s [expressed] a positive vision for the country over and over”. “He needs to get over to Tampa, I think he’s been over there already”.
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“Given the distance from economic reality that Clinton and Sanders have catapulted in their exhortations, we can not endorse either of them in the IL primary election”, the paper wrote wrote.
