(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio). Democratic presidential candidate, Sen.
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Republican pollster Neil Newhouse said Cruz had not yet shown an ability to appeal beyond the most conservative voters.
Rubio did pick up a victory Sunday in Puerto Rico’s primary, his second win of the 2016 cycle. Ohio Governor John Kasich trails with 35 delegates. We’ll see what happens. He is expected to stay in the race until his home state of Florida votes on March 15.
SENATORS Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders scored key victories in their quest for the White House, but Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remained their parties’ frontrunners as the “Super Saturday” results came in.
The two Democrats will debate Sunday night on CNN at 8 p.m. ET in Flint, Mich.
The Democratic candidates were facing off just two days before Michigan’s primary in a city that was already in tough shape long before residents learned their drinking water was tainted with lead. But he has underperformed polls in several states recently. That margin will make up for her loss to Sanders in Nebraska.
With 123 delegates, Rubio is 255 delegates behind Trump in the race for the 1,237 needed to win the Republican nomination for president. Trump is far ahead, 44 to 22 percent, in Central Florida, and leads with a close 36 percent to Rubio’s 32 percent in North Florida. As a result, Clinton got 55 new delegates, raising her total to 1,121. The Democratic nominee must have 2,383 delegates. Cruz has now won six states to Trump’s 12, while Rubio has only one state in his column, and Kasich none.
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Mr Cruz now appears to be the only candidate who can stop Mr Trump, analysts say, after a week in which the Republican establishment did everything it could to attack Mr Trump, a NY tycoon. While he said he “can’t imagine” being elected by delegates at the party’s Cleveland convention in July, he added, “I don’t think anyone in our party should say, ‘Oh no, even if the people in the party wanted me to be president, I would say no to it'”.
Longtime political analyst Jim Weatherby said he couldn’t remember a single previous instance when major party leaders like Romney actively sought a brokered convention.
Cruz and Trump split four states, but the senator from Texas won 16 more delegates than the billionaire businessman.
The Sunshine State is the showdown state for Trump and Rubio. Kasich, who also was winless Saturday, has 35 delegates.
Cruz has feuded with party leadership, including Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and has often accused fellow Republicans of selling out conservative principles. He took a cumulative 33 per cent of the vote in the four states, peaking at about 40 per cent of the vote in Louisiana and receiving only 23 per cent in the Kansas caucuses.
Trump still leads the field with at least 378 delegates, while Cruz has at least 295.
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“There will be more delegates awarded in Florida than basically any other state that voted tonight combined”, Rubio said. “I want Ted one on one”.
