He is now within 84 delegates of frontrunner Donald Trump.
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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is coming to Tampa later today for a campaign rally, but he got no love in the hours before the event from Tampa’s Democratic mayor. Marco Rubio of Florida, with Sen.
The ad slammed Rubio for changing his vote on a key Florida bill after selling his house to the relative of a lobbyist who backed the bill.
Trump has called for him to drop out of the race for president, but Rubio has not slowed down his campaign, nor does he plan to.
Deepening their dominance in the South, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump swept to easy victories Tuesday in Mississippi’s presidential primaries.
Breaking down the numbers, Trump has gotten the support of the majority from various demographic groups such as men, women, Republicans, independents, moderate GOP primary voters and conservatives. Cruz won Kansas and ME on Saturday. She led Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders by more than 40 points ahead of the Tuesday primary.
After stumbling on Super Tuesday, Rubio happily told his Idaho audience about a victory and a sweep of the delegates in Sunday’s presidential primary in Puerto Rico.
After Tuesday’s primaries, the Bern could be a memory and Donald Trump either will – or won’t – be closer to the GOP presidential nominee.
“I know that this is not a role you have traditionally played in Idaho”. Finally, Trump has been losing late deciders in most of these states.
Senator Bernie Sanders and former Seccretary of State Hillary Clinton at an ABC News debate in December. If a candidate exceeds 50 percent of the popular vote, he will receive all of the delegates, otherwise they will be allocated proportionally among all of the candidates polling above 15 percent. His widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, endorsed Clinton and his brother, longtime Republican Charles Evers, endorsed Trump.
“I believe I could win a number of diverse states – but not enough to win the 270 Electoral College votes necessary to win the presidency”, he wrote in a blog post Monday.
Trump hopes to regain his momentum after suffering a week of blistering attacks from the party’s establishment and splitting four contests on Saturday with rival Ted Cruz, who positioned himself as the prime alternative to the brash billionaire in the race for the party’s nomination for the November 8 election.
In total, 205 delegates are at stake for the two Democratic candidates.
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Sanders and Clinton both voted in favor of a bailout bill in 2008, but it failed to clear the Senate, prompting Bush to announce about a week later that the federal government would step in with $17.4 billion in federal aid to help the carmakers survive and restructure.
