Trump’s advantage over his GOP presidential primary rivals – just a week ahead of the March 15 primary – has him positioned to pad his lead with Illinois’ 69 delegates up for grabs. Delegates are awarded proportionally, and based on the results of a Monmouth University poll, the former secretary of state and the NY real estate mogul appear poised to walk away with the greatest numbers. Clinton scored her sole victory of the day with a win in Louisiana but holds a commanding lead in the current delegate count. Trump, though, continues to lead in the polls in the Sunshine State and is working hard to knock out Rubio next week. “He’s been clear that he believes that Donald Trump is not the best person to represent the Republican Party and will do what he can to support a strong nominee who holds conservative values to win back the White House”.
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On the eve of his second visit to the First Coast in four days, a new poll has some good news and bad news for Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign.
The state tally sheets so far: 12 wins for Trump; six for Cruz and one for Rubio. On Sunday, Rubio won the Republican presidential primary in Puerto Rico, securing 23 delegates. The polling could potentially provide some hope to establishment Republicans eager for signs of vulnerability on Trump’s part and fuel arguments for consolidation in the GOP race behind a single Trump challenger. He also won Republican primaries in MI and MS, important victories that propel him closer to the nomination. Sen. The economy ranked high on the list of concerns for voters heading to the polls in MI and Mississippi. Both Trump and Cruz visited ME before voting Saturday.
The three states holding Democratic contests on Saturday have a total of 109 delegates at stake. Twenty-three percent of those polled expect Trump to be the next president, 20 percent Clinton, 10 percent Sanders, 8 percent Cruz and 5 percent Rubio, while 27 percent don’t have a guess yet.
For frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton the weekend was a mixed bag of results.
“But we turned it down because we wanted to make sure we got to Idaho in time”, he said to another loud burst of applause.
Cruz is working to line up several Republican Senate endorsements, an ironic twist for a candidate who has also run an anti-establishment campaign. FiveThirtyEight, meanwhile, says Trump has a 92 percent chance of winning MI.
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Over on the Republican side, businessman Donald Trump is beginning to show some vulnerabilities in his campaign for president.
