“Maybe he wins OH, maybe he doesn’t”, Trump said during a rally near Dayton this weekend.
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“And this is what happens when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of anger and bitterness and frustration”, Rubio said, adding later, “I’m sad for this country”.
“Here’s what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud”.
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Trump tried Sunday to shift attention away from the intense criticism that followed Friday’s harrowing scenes in Chicago, where he cancelled a scheduled rally amid sometimes violent confrontations among his supporters, protesters and authorities. He’s down in the delegate race by more than 200 to Trump, a gap that can’t be closed by Florida’s winner-take-all contest alone.
If Marco Rubio wins Florida and John Kasich wins OH, their victories would go a long way toward making sure that no one gets the 1,237 delegates needed to lock up the nomination before the convention.
GOP leaders are grasping for a last-ditch idea to stop Trump from claiming the nomination.
The bombastic real estate mogul may be ahead in national polls and in party delegates, but Florida senator Marco Rubio easily defeated him in the Republican caucus in the U.S. capital.
“I get to the point where I said I’ve kind of had enough, I’m going to have to talk, going to have to say some things”, he said in the interview.
Still, some of his supporters say they aren’t discouraged.
The billionaire businessman has 44 percent of the vote among registered voters in the state, compared to Cruz at 24 percent and Rubio at 21 percent.
“He’s been clear that he believes that Donald Trump is not the best person to represent the Republican Party and will do what he can to support a strong nominee who holds conservative values to win back the White House”, said a source close to Romney.
On the GOP side in OH, the new poll shows Trump and Kasich are tied at 38% each.
The comments marked one of the most humbling moments of the cycle, particularly for a candidate criticized as robotic, and they came in response to a weekend of violence or threatened violence at Trump rallies in other states.
The Romney assist in OH comes as Trump has sharpened his jabs against Kasich on the campaign trail, labeling him an “absentee governor”.
Trump leads polls ahead of “Super Tuesday 2” for the Republicans while Clinton maintains lead among Democrats.
The senator has gone so far as to say his supporters in OH should vote for Kasich to help derail Trump. He confirmed earlier Sunday that he was considering assisting a North Carolina man charged with assault after video captured him sucker-punching a protester at a March 9 rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
“What is he? He’s a choke artist who never goes to vote”, Trump said at a rally in Cleveland, referencing Rubio’s attendance rate in the Senate. “He feels pretty confident about South Florida. Nobody’s been hurt at our rallies”, Trump told CNN late Friday, one of several interviews he did as cable networks broadcast footage of the skirmishes both inside and outside the Chicago arena where he had planned to speak.
“We’re hoping and praying that people wake up and just think hard about our future as a country, and the way the polls are looking, it’s very concerning”, said Stephanie Christiansen, a stay-at-home mom from Davie, Florida. And he said his ability to bring young people into the political process can counteract the GOP’s ability to “win when voter turnout is low”.
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Of course, primary elections are not won with unexpectedly close second-place finishes (ask Bernie Sanders). “Thank God most people are not like Donald Trump”, he said. The more I hear about him, the more I dislike him. “I didn’t think it would ever come again”.
