“In every closed primary so far, Ted Cruz has over performed and Donald Trump has underperformed”, he wrote.
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As for the Democrats, Vermont Sen.
While ruling out putting his name into the mix, Romney has suggested a primary strategy that could lead to a brokered convention – calling on Republican primary voters opposed to Trump to vote for the non-Trump candidate with the best chance of winning in their state.
Rubio spokesman Alex Conant argued on Fox News Saturday that Rubio will win his home state of Florida on March 15, and the trajectory will change: “After we win the Florida primary, the map, the momentum and the money is going to be on our side”. The question is “how do voters see Cruz and Rubio?”.
Trump leads the GOP pack with 384 delegates, but Cruz has accelerated to a close second with 300.
Despite finishing first in Kansas, Nebraska and the Sunday (March 6) contest in Maine, Sanders gained only two delegates on former secretary of state and first lady Hillary Clinton, who won the Louisiana primarily easily.
Rubio, a frequent target of Trump’s attacks, also told Bash he “didn’t get into this race to beat up on other candidates”. “That will be easy”. He said voting for Trump would be “a version of national suicide”. Thirty-six percent said they would back Trump, 23 percent back Cruz, 21 percent support Kasich and 13 percent said they’d back Rubio.
“The field needs to continue to narrow”. “Has to”, Trump said at a news conference at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where dozens of friends and club members mixed in with reporters covering his campaign.
Sanders won by solid margins in Nebraska and Kansas, giving him seven victories so far in the nominating season, compared to 11 for Clinton, who still maintains a commanding lead in competition for delegates.
Kasich meanwhile is focused on a Rust Belt strategy, where he is looking to drive up his numbers beginning with his home state of Ohio.
GOP candidates need to win least 1,237 delegates to win the party’s nomination while a Democrat needs 2,383.
Billionaire Mr Trump, still the frontrunner in the hunt for delegates, took Louisiana and Kentucky.
Asked whether he would reject the nomination if drafted, Romney said such a scenario would be “absurd” but left the door open to it, in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation.
Take a look at the map above of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
But it is the Republican contest that is generating more headlines.
Ted Cruz has seized upon his victories on “Super Saturday” to claim he is the only man able to stop Donald Trump, as the Republican party scrabbles to throw a spoke in the wheel of the New Yorker’s political juggernaut.
On Super Saturday Ted Cruz did better than expected as he won in two states and lost narrowly to Donald Trump in the third state by a narrow margin. “We’ve now moved more to my territory”.
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Stressing the importance of voter turnout, he said, “when large numbers of people come – working people, young people who have not been involved in the political process – we will do well, and I think that is bearing out tonight”.
