The states involved in Super Tuesday also represent about 130 so-called Super Delegates, Democrats who are not pledged to support the victor from their states.
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On the Republican side, Donald Trump continues to pad his lead over Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz as he cited a new CNN/ORC poll during a campaign stop in Virginia this morning that has 49 percent of respondents supporting him for president to Marco Rubio’s 16 percent and Cruz’s 15.
Trump is a “con man” who needs to be “unmasked”, says Rubio, who finished a distant second to Trump in SC and Nevada, and is a big underdog in Super Tuesday primaries. The Vermont Senator would have to have a huge day tomorrow if he wants to remain relevant in the election. The Post cited poll results from Democratic and Republican legislative races that showed support for businessman Trump, a native New Yorker, was strong in the state. But Kagan is so far on his own in acknowledging that the party’s fanatical anti-Obama strategy – shared, of course, by Rubio and Cruz – has helped make Trump possible.
Rubio said Trump’s failure to immediately repudiate Duke, who has expressed support for Trump, makes him “unelectable”. That all changes on Super Tuesday.
Trump holds commanding leads across the South, with the exception of Cruz’s home state of Texas, a dynamic that puts tremendous pressure on Rubio and Cruz as they try to outlast each other.
A growing number of senior Republicans are becoming resigned to the idea Trump will be their candidate in November.
“Hillary says she doesn’t like my tone”, Trump told a crowd of some 3,000 in southwester Virginia.
Marco Rubio spent much of his presidential campaign trying to ignore Donald Trump.
Shutdown already here, says budget-watcher: Budget-watcher and Forbes contributor Stan Collender writes that congressional Republicans have effectively shut down the federal government, but aren’t admitting it.
Clinton was riding high after thrashing rival Bernie Sanders in SC over the weekend, securing an astronomical 86 percent of the African-American vote.
If Trump sweeps the South, where numerous Super Tuesday races are taking place, it could be lights out for his Republican challengers.
Whitman said, “For some of us, principle and country still matter”.
Noting that like Cruz has suggested Trump presidency would be “a grave mistake”, host Jake Tapper asked if he would still support his rival should he win the nomination. First, Trump’s no longer just the candidate preferred by poorer, less-educated voters (though that was always a bit overplayed). And Texas is the single biggest prize of Super Tuesday, with more than a quarter of the delegates that will be awarded.
The Fix’s Aaron Blake sets up the stakes for Republican and Democratic presidential candidates on Super Tuesday.
The Hawaii Democrat tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she trusts Sanders to consider the consequences of any military action.
The loss in SC underscored Sanders’ weakness with black voters, a critical segment of the Democratic electorate.
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Rubio mocked Trump for his complexion, as he has before, accusing him of having a bad “spray tan”.
