In those states, if Trump is nearing 50 percent in the polls, Rubio has to step in and knock off at least a few points off his final tally.
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In the Democratic race, the poll showed Clinton, the country’s top diplomat from 2009 to 2013, with a widening lead over her lone opponent, Vermont’s democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, 55 to 38 percent. March 1 is the single most critical day of the 2016 US presidential primary race, with 11 states giving away delegates. “After Tuesday, I think Donald Trump is still going to be around”.
Hillary Clinton re-tweeted Sanders’ message.
Mr. Christie agreed Sunday that he and Mr. Trump have had “some major disagreements with each other, because we ran against each other”.
Trump often refers the Florida lawmaker as “Little Marco Rubio”, who “trowels” on makeup to hide his pronounced ears and says he “couldn’t get elected dogcatcher”.
An emboldened Marco Rubio took aim at Donald Trump Sunday, dissing the GOP front-runner on everything from his spray-tan to the size of manhood. It’s ok to be a mainstream Republican and to hold a position of influence, and like Trump.
Establishment Republican figures, many of whom have endorsed Rubio and vowed not to support Trump, are anxious that he would not be able to defeat Clinton in November’s national election and that Republicans would sustain significant losses in Congress, where they now control both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The Republican candidates will battle over 49 delegates.
“Remember: Friends do not let friends vote for con artists”, Rubio warned at one rally. “Donald Trump is unfit to be president”.
Ford said even though some Republican party groups are coming out against Trump, Oklahoma parties will support the eventual nominee.
He is aiming for his first nomination victory in the winner-take-all contest March 15 in Florida, his home state in the southeastern U.S.
SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), Republican Presidential Candidate: Now, listen, that’s not a whole lot different, what Donald’s doing, than a whole lot of other big companies. Less than half of GOP voters now say Cruz is “honest and trustworthy”, down nine points in the last two weeks.
Rubio has campaigned since Friday as if the Republican campaign has already settled into a two-man contest between him and Trump. Clinton turned her attention to the Republican field, all-but-ignoring rival Sanders from campaign events in MA on Monday.
Democrats will award delegates in the same states as Republicans, apart from Alaska, and they are also competing in Colorado and in American Samoa. “If he can’t win the states with the largest share of evangelical voters, then it really undermines his path to the nomination”.
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“Obviously he must have thought that David Duke, and that type of person, was OK with people in Alabama and the South. I want to tell you they are not OK with us”, said Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley.
