10News WTSP political analyst Lars Hafner explains, “If he goes forward and loses like the polls are indicating by double digits or even just under double digits to a Donald Trump, his future in Florida politics is bleak”.
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Only Ted Cruz or Donald Trump can win the GOP nomination. In a number of the states that Trump won, the combined votes for Cruz and Rubio would have been enough to defeat him.
Meanwhile, Democratic hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off in MI and MS on Tuesday – both contests Clinton is heavily favored to win.
Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders were locked in a tight race in MI with about 30 percent of the votes counted. Ted Cruz, his closest rival.
Trump is facing competition from Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has failed to win a single primary so far but hopes MI can give him a boost heading into his home state’s winner-take-all contest on March 15. A solid majority of Ohio Republicans, 60 percent, say they feel betrayed by Republican leaders.
Though, that question wasn’t asked about any of the other candidates, and, to be fair, 8 percent of Florida Republicans ended up voting for Barack Obama in 2012.
“No one state determines the election, but Idaho is a place for a candidate to pick up a sizeable amount of delegates”, said David Johnston, executive director of the Idaho Republican Party. Given the choice between the two, 51 percent of respondents chose Clinton while only 38 percent would vote for Trump instead.
The Republican contests in Florida and OH award all the state’s delegates to the victor.
Gov. Kasich: “No, no I think he’s trying to solve the problem here, he’s had many sleepless nights”. He’s likely to get it, with every recent poll save one outlier finding him with a double-digit lead. I don’t know that that’s going to happen. But Hillary Clinton’s campaign pointed to her growing delegate lead and predicted it would soon have an “insurmountable” advantage as the nomination fight looked to drag deep into spring. “I believe with all my heart that the victor of the Florida primary next Tuesday will be the nominee of the Republican Party”, he said.
Although there aren’t many caucuses left on the Republican calendar, most of the forthcoming primaries are closed – including the key vote in Florida in just over a week. Only 23 of the 54 Republican senators have endorsed at all, and only 16 are backing a candidate still in the race, with 14 behind Sen.
Current primary results have reportedly led GOP leaders to consider a contested convention if Donald Trump falls short of the 1,237 delegates needed to qualify for the nomination.
“We have to recover as a party”, Trump said. He can poison the whole Republican brand, taking Republican members of Congress down with him, along with Republican governors and other state and local officials. His margin among GOP women against Cruz was 37-15 percent in January. But the SC senator – whom Trump has repeatedly mocked and insulted – has started to suggest that it may be time for his party to rally around Cruz “as the only way to stop Donald Trump”.
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The Post-ABC poll was conducted March 3-6 among a random national sample of 1,000 adults reached on landline and cellular phones. The results were even worse in MS, where he finished in fourth with just 5 percent with 92 percent of precincts reporting.
