Donald Trump’s harsh language against Mexican immigrants hasn’t just helped him win a big delegate lead in the Republican presidential primaries – it’s also spurring Hispanic immigrants to seek USA citizenship so they can vote against him.
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It’s a far-fetched scenario, to be sure, but it goes something like this: If through the primary process Republican front-runner Donald Trump fails to collect the majority of delegates needed to secure the nomination, the result would be a contested convention.
Donald Trump is trying to make it a two-man race for the Republican nomination by finishing off Florida Senator Marco Rubio when his home state votes next week.
A minute-long version of the Trump ad concludes, “Marco Rubio: Another corrupt, all-talk, no-action politician”. The Texas senator is sticking close to Trump in the delegate count and with six states in his win column, he’s arguing he’s the only candidate standing between the brash billionaire and the GOP nomination. But if Mr. Trump is starting to slip with Christian conservatives – whether because of his innuendo about his manhood, Mr. Cruz’s growing strength, or both – it could be evident here. Rubio came in second, with the support of 30 percent of attendees; next was Trump, with 15 percent, and Kasich, with 8 percent.
Puerto Rico Republicans will vote today.
On “Super Saturday” alone, Cruz won more delegates than Trump did-69 to 53 (with 5 delegates from Louisiana still to be allotted).
Clinton said she will do so when other candidates, including Republicans, agree to do the same. “I think they will bear some resemblance to a piñata”, said Sen.
In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton lost Kansas and Nebraska to a resurgent Sanders campaign, although her own win in Louisiana, as expected, left her well ahead in net delegates at the end of the night.
Trump’s strong performance in the state suggested that critical comments last week from 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who grew up in MI and whose father was the state’s governor for seven years in the 1960’s, had little effect on voters. From Michigan’s primary high point of 1947, when 1.9 million voters cast ballots in the state’s primary – Democrat George Wallace and Republican Richard Nixon won the day – turnout has dropped sharply, to 21% in 2008.
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders also have skipped the state, but former President Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife last week in Jackson. The Florida survey includes 1,014 adults, including 264 likely Democratic primary voters and 313 likely Republican primary voters.
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Cruz, under the weather, had canceled a rally he had planned to hold on Monday in Ellisville, the hometown of tea party hero and MS state Sen. The Arizona Republic’s is taking aim specifically at Trump.
