The Florida senator predicted that he will win the GOP nomination after performing well in the SC primary. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio battled for second place. But there’s no evidence that enough of his voters will go to Rubio to allow Rubio to finish ahead of Cruz, let alone Trump.
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney released a statement Saturday praising Jeb Bush after the latter dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The Republican presidential candidate announced yesterday evening his decision to drop out of the race for the White House.
“It’s tough, it’s nasty, it’s mean, it’s vicious”, Trump said of the campaign.
” In particular, I have to say Ted and Marco did a really good job”. Half of voters surveyed said they felt betrayed by politicians in the Republican Party.
Concluding his speech, Rubio said, “If it is God’s will that we should win this election, then history will say that on this night in SC, we took the first step forwards in the beginning of a new American century”.
But his failure to stop Trump in SC could puncture that strategy.
“We’re the only campaign that has and can defeat Donald Trump”, Cruz told his supporters after asking for a moment of silence for former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last week.
It was her second win after a loss in New Hampshire and confirmed her pre-poll lead.
Trump had the support of 33 percent of the men who voted, the exit poll showed. With about 85 per cent of precincts reporting, Clinton was at 52.5 per cent to 47.4 per cent for Sanders. Bush placed fourth place in New Hampshire and sixth in Iowa before that.
” I am so, so thrilled and so grateful to all of my supporters out there”.
At her victory rally in Las Vegas, she said: “Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other”.
Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton beat back a strong challenge from Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucuses. And with another victory expected next week in South Carolina, Clinton will head into Super Tuesday with actual momentum.
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In between now and then, there is a caucus in Nevada and a number of southern states up for grabs on March 1.
