If the race were narrowed to a two-candidate field, the poll shows, Cruz leads Trump by 56 percent to 40 percent, while Rubio leads by 57 percent to 41 percent. Trump maintains a commanding 35% of the vote, with Cruz and Rubio coming in at 18% and 10%, respectively. It is a remarkable contention that an ad that plays video of Donald Trump speaking on national television is somehow defamation. “I would encourage you to go not just on your record but on your plan”, he said.
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Unless Trump takes a big hit over his attack on President Bush, the Haley endorsement doesn’t seem likely to boost Rubio to victory over Trump in SC.
Nikki Haley is endorsing Marco Rubio ahead of Saturday’s first-in-the-South Republican presidential primary.
Trump trails Cruz 56 percent to 40 percent and Rubio 57 percent to 41 percent.
Mr Trump responded that he opposes abortion, which most USA conservatives also do not support.
But another recent poll, by Morning Consult, has Trump where has been for months, on top.
Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (left) shakes hands with his brother former President George W. Bush as Laura Bush and Sen.
Cruz, a Texas senator, was very much on edge during a hastily called news conference in Seneca, S.C., on Wednesday.
Jeb said he was “disappointed” by Haley’s endorsement of Rubio, his onetime Florida protégé, who Bush insists doesn’t have the experience or leadership qualities needed to be president. “She’s a very good governor and should I win the nomination, there’ll be a role for her in the campaign”, Mr Bush, 63, told reporters after a campaign event in Summerville, South Carolina. She also delivered the GOP response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address earlier this year, in which she took aim at Trump. He even suggested that, if necessary, he would depose Trump himself. Tim Scott, who enjoys and 76 percent approval rating among GOP primary voters.
Haley is scheduled to campaign with Rubio at an event tonight in Chapin, South Carolina. “Torture works, OK folks?” the brash billionaire told a crowd in SC, site of the next Republican primary on Saturday.
“In many parts of society today, whether in popular culture, academia, the media or politics, there’s a tendency to falsely equate noise with results”, she said. And for anyone that actually cares about conservative judges, I’ll tell you Anderson, there is no universe in which I could write a check to Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden or Jimmy Carter.
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Another NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday found registered voters to be divided on whether the Senate should vote this year on a replacement for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
