While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are the only two remaining Democratic candidates, there are six candidates fighting for the Republican nomination.
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The Palmetto Poll comes out the day before South Carolina’s “First in the South” GOP Presidential preference primary.
But the polls show Donald Trump is the leader in SC with a narrowing lead over Cruz.
Just half of Republican voters say they have a favorable opinion of Bush, while 4 in 10 have an unfavorable opinion.
Noble also tweeted that Trump is not “the best choice among the current candidates”.
That was Donald Trump in Myrtle Beach today, taking a softer line after his flare-up with Pope Francis. They point to Republicans who have failed them in Washington and presidential candidates who got the religious conservative backing, and lost, like Mitt Romney in 2012, and John McCain in 2008.
The frenzy of activity came as the latest SC poll indicated Trump’s lead over Cruz has dipped to single digits, with Bush running third and Rubio fourth.
Bush has said he intends to continue regardless of the results Saturday, but he’s banking on a strong showing here.
With front-runner Donald Trump fighting to hold off U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and win his second straight early nominating contest, Rubio and Bush are battling to become the main anti-Trump alternative from among establishment Republicans seeking the party’s nomination for the November 8 election. “By the time the war started, I was against it”, he said. In a new Fox Poll released Thursday, Trump leads nationally with 36 percent among Republican voters to 19 percent for Cruz and 15 percent for Rubio. Rubio this week received the endorsement of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Ted Cruz. Sixty-three percent say he’s competent and 62 percent consider him inspiring, also more than say so of any other candidate.
Rubio is treading carefully around whether Bush should exit the race if he performs poorly in SC, saying Bush has worked hard and “has a right to be in this race as long as he wants to be”. Even Marco Rubio said he’s a liar.
Clinton’s campaign initially projected confidence in Nevada, pointing to her appeal to the state’s Latino voting population, but after New Hampshire, her team softened the rhetoric about the western state. The majority of registered Democrats are African American, making up more than 50 percent of registered Democrat voters.
It marks the first GOP caucus or primary in the Western part of the United States after stops in both the Northeast and Southeast. A Quinnipiac University pollreleased Wednesday found Trump with his highest total yet – 39% – in that survey, easily ahead of Sen.
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“When you see what happens in South Carolina”, Tim Scott, a Republican senator in South Carolina told the Times, “it will carry momentum into Nevada, and then into Super Tuesday”.
