In South Carolina, polls of likely primary voters also find him with a wide margin over the next closest Republican, Ted Cruz.
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Marco Rubio enters Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate facing huge pressure to right his campaign after faltering badly in the last contest and finishing a disappointing fifth in New Hampshire.
After coming in first in the Iowa caucuses, Cruz finished a distant third behind Trump on Tuesday night in New Hampshire, though he joked he deserves the same credit Marco Rubio got a week earlier for beating expectations in Iowa.
The debate will last two full hours, ending at 11 p.m. ET, and will be available to those without a television on the broadcast network’s streaming service, CBSN.
More than six in 10 Republicans have favorable views of Trump (67 percent), Rubio (62 percent) and Cruz (61 percent), the poll found.
This is a waking nightmare for Republicans who want to win in November.
Trump’s support came from independent voters (47 percent), those who view themselves as other than conservative (47 percent) and those without a college degree (49 percent). Other candidates who did well in New Hampshire are looking ahead to the next big vote.
(Cruz) “When Republican presidential candidates are repeating Barack Obama’s talking points on gay marriage, saying ‘We surrender”.
With Rubio falling by the wayside, it’s genuinely hard to see how Donald Trump doesn’t become the Republican standard-bearer.
On the Democratic side, Sanders beat out Hillary Clinton by over 55,000 votes, with 60.4 percent to Clinton’s 38 percent. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who took second place in New Hampshire, does not have a national organization and is considered too moderate by many to win.
Although edging out Rubio was one of the things that definitely helped, the donor said, Bush backers now believe the primary gave their candidate the confidence he needed.
Chris Christie formally suspended his presidential campaign today.
Christie announced Wednesday he was ending his White House bid, following a dismal performance Tuesday in New Hampshire. Clinton still tops him in polls nationally.
“It is important to note that if you would combine Christie, Kasich, and Bush, how they did in New Hampshire, they got about equal or maybe even a little bit better than what Trump got”, said Kondik.
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The first southern state to vote in the primaries is a rough-and-tumble political swamp.
