Rubio said the upcoming schedule of primaries is “better for us”, and renewed his vow to win his home state of Florida, claiming all 99 delegates there on March 15.
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is trying to cast himself as the GOP’s conservative savior as party insiders look for an alternative to Donald Trump, an irony considering his years spent fostering a reputation as an outsider…
In a further sign of tensions surrounding Trump’s rise, his Friday night rally in New Orleans, Louisiana saw skirmishes inside and outside the venue.
Ruffin also told the group at the luncheon meeting that they shouldn’t hold Trump’s donations to Democratic candidates against him. ME is not the sort of state in which Cruz has tended to do well, but clearly his campaign thought a strong showing or win was possible or they would not have scheduled a campaign appearance.
(Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP).
Both candidates had plenty of supporters at the caucuses.
Have you had your fill of the Republican presidential primary? The other remaining GOP candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, is concentrating on his own state ahead of its crucial winner-takes-all election on March 15.
Any candidate who wins a majority gets all of them.
Voters in five states are getting their say in the 2016 race.
Thousands of Nebraska Democrats are gathering in all of the state’s 93 counties Saturday to make their choice for a presidential nominee, a rare chance for the party to wield some influence in a state that has trended more conservative.
Republican candidate Ted Cruz also planned to be in Wichita on Saturday to speak at the Century II arena caucus site as voting opens at 10 a.m.
Maine, like Kansas, holds closed caucuses. The 30-year-old cigar company sales representative from Gardner and his wife voted for Cruz and don’t trust Trump.
Outside, protesters squared off against Trump supporters.
“Donald is telling us he will betray us on everything he’s campaigned on”, Cruz said Friday in Maine.
A Donald Trump backer in Kansas has a stern warning for the establishment figures in the Republican Party who are frantically looking for any way to stop the billionaire businessman from grabbing the presidential nomination.
Going into the weekend round, Donald Trump leads in the GOP race with 329 delegates. That means it’s harder to have a breakout that changes the nature of the race.
Trump’s momentum, combined with a Maine GOP electorate that loves plain-spoken agitators, will deliver an easy victory to the front-runner. In Louisiana’s primary, there is no threshold to earn a portion of the delegates.
And in coming Republican contests, like Florida and OH, all delegates in a state will go to the victor, for the first time in the campaign.
On the Democratic side, Clinton leads with 1,066 delegates to 432 for Sanders. If no one reaches 50 percent, then the delegates will be divided among candidates receiving 10 percent or more of the vote.
Clinton is farther along in the hunt.
Meanwhile, in Democratic races, scant polling has shown former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has the edge in most places, but Vermont Sen.
In all, Democrats will send 4,763 delegates to their convention, with 2,382 needed for nomination.
But his presidential bid failed.
While other candidates are on the ballot, at least three of these races come down to a contest between Sen.
The Clinton campaign – keen on not raising expectations in Nebraska – did little to promote an endorsement from the state’s largest newspaper.
In Louisiana, Clinton was hoping that strong support from the state’s sizable black population will give her a boost.
The Clinton campaign has had paid organizers and volunteers on the ground in Nebraska longer than Sanders, according to Democratic activists, and she has already spent more than $300,000 in television advertising.
Many first-time caucusgoers were among the throngs who turned out in Chelsea, where Republicans from capital-area towns gathered Saturday.
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Mainstream Republicans have blanched at Trump’s calls to build a wall on the border with Mexico, round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the United States.
