The snapshot of Florida comes before the state’s crucial 99-delegate, winner-take-all primary set for March 15. He says, “We’ll get it before I’m president”.
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On the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders scored an upset win – albeit a narrow one – in MI, 49.9% to Hillary Clinton’s 48.2% (with a handful of probably pro-Clinton precincts still to come). Of those who have not yet voted, Trump leads 42% to 26%. He emerged from MI and MS with no new delegates, a grim outcome for a candidate who has the overwhelming support from Republican senators, governors and other elected officials.
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Cruz’s campaign has signaled it sees an opening in Florida, opening 10 offices across the state last week and not ruling out travel there surrounding the Republican debate Thursday in Miami.
Trump, too, padded his lead over Texas Senator Ted Cruz. “Ted Cruz hasn’t done as well as many anticipated”.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is bristling at the question of whether he’s ever smoked marijuana.
A majority of all voters surveyed said Trump would bring the wrong kind of change for the country while 27 percent said he would bring the right kind of change.
Four states are holding voting on Tuesday, including MI, where polls have shown a tightening race. But the flood of attacks on Trump’s business record and temperament has failed to slow his rise. “So I don’t know who’s going to win, but I hope it’s Trump”.
He told NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday he thought the attacks were helping him: “There’s tremendous positive energy in the party”. We’re setting records going to the polls. “We’re getting millions and millions of people that have never voted before, millions of people from the Democrats, millions of people from the independents”.
“Tuesday’s contests marked another lost opportunity for rivals desperate to stop his march to the nomination”.
Trump also leads in Mississippi – a phenomena that might have seemed unlikely six months ago, noted Rob Mellen Jr., a political scientist at Mississippi State University.
That email from Cruz volunteers said, “According to multiple news sources, Marco Rubio’s advisers are telling him to drop out of the presidential race before losing his home state of Florida in a few days’ time”.
After stumbling on Super Tuesday, Rubio happily told his Idaho audience about a victory and a sweep of the delegates in Sunday’s presidential primary in Puerto Rico.
The Michigan race is also a blow for Cruz, whose string of successes against Trump have strengthened his argument that he is the only candidate who can beat Trump. Marco Rubio has 151 delegates and John Kasich has 54.
Cruz as a candidate would not lay waste the Republican Party in the same way that Trump would. Some 1,237 are needed to win the nomination.
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In addition to IL, primaries will be held next Tuesday in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri.
