The Republican primary is open only to GOP registered voters, but residents can change their voter affiliation to Republican onsite Tuesday.
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In Mississippi, Trump leads in the polls, but Cruz, who held a rally in Florence on Monday, holds out hope that he can close the gap.
Rubio said Monday he has no regrets about “standing up to a bully like Donald Trump”. “There is a good chance that my candidacy could lead to the election of Donald Trump or Senator Ted Cruz”. Trump has said he can afford to finance his own campaign, though he has received contributions.
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders also have skipped the state, but former President Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife last week in Jackson.
Among Republicans, Mr Trump leads with 384 delegates, followed by Mr Cruz with 300, Mr Rubio with 151 delegates and Mr Kasich with 37.
Donald Trump isn’t taking anything for granted in the key winner-take-all Florida Primary next week.
Rosemary O’Hara, the newspaper’s editorial page editor, said in an interview with CNN’s Brooke Baldwin that it’s the first time the Sun-Sentinel hasn’t endorsed a presidential candidate. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., poses for photographs at a rally in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Saturday, March 5, 2016. “The only vote we had in the senate on whether or not we support the automobile industry and I of course, voted yes”.
All told, she has 1,130 delegates to Sanders’ 499, according to The Associated Press. If Cruz can win Florida, he’ll add to his not-insignificant delegate total.
Cruz will collect at least 36 delegates for winning the Republican caucuses in Kansas and Maine, Trump at least 18 and Rubio at least six and Kasich three.
Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, attributed his strong showing to conservatives coalescing behind his candidacy, calling it a “manifestation of a real shift in momentum”.
“Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the best of the bunch, but if you measure a candidate by the caliber of his campaign, Kasich’s lack of traction and organization make a vote for him count for little”, the paper wrote. That might require him to win even more of the white vote to prevail in the election than the 63 percent Ronald Reagan captured in his 1984 re-election, when Reagan won 49 states.
“The new commercial is airing as Rubio, the state’s freshman senator, is expected to arrive in his home state and stay for a heavy schedule of campaigning”. But the senator’s personal finances were enough of a concern in 2012 that Romney’s campaign noted them as a potential issue while vetting Rubio as a potential running mate.
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Trump’s convincing win in MI narrowed prospects for the party’s anti-Trump forces to stop him before next Tuesday’s contests, which also include Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri.
