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Behind Trump, Florida Senator Marco Rubio took second place by a razor thin margin over Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
A string of victories for Clinton and Trump in Super Tuesday contests would give them commanding leads in the delegate race, dampening prospects for their rivals to catch up.
Trump has recently suggested that he’ll be “sort of a neutral guy” in the dispute. The reality is, however, much of today’s Republican Party is ill-suited for Bush.
Mr Trump’s strong showing in SC marked his second successive victory in the Republican primaries and strengthened his unexpected claim on the party nomination.
Rubio’s lawyers have paid attention to the issue and have filed a motion to dismiss a suit in Florida challenging the senator’s eligibility.
A good result for Cruz, meanwhile, would lend credence to a theory of the campaign that rests on a string of strong performances in very conservative and evangelical Southern states.
“Look, I’m competing against professional politicians, senators, top of the line”, the real estate mogul said. That’s a bloc which the former president’s brother, Jeb Bush needed to do well with, but won over just eight percent. The Republicans have just days to go before Tuesday’s GOP caucuses in Nevada; the Democrats have a little longer until their February 27 primary in SC.
“The presidency is bigger than any one candidate”.
Trump says he “can act as presidential as anybody that’s ever been president other than the great Abraham Lincoln”.
Mr Bush, who had been on the receiving end of Mr Trump’s hectoring through the campaign, withdrew from the presidential nominee race after placing a distant fourth. Neither one is going to happen in the short term and you know what that means right?
The national Republican chairman says the party is ready “for anything” at the nominating convention in July.
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She added: “We love you and we are going ahead to Nevada”. “We think he’s had success with everything he’s touched”, Lynn Derrick, a first-time primary voter said.
Cruz also tried to paint Trump as being similar to Clinton on abortion, immigration and Wall Street reform.
Although far from the Clinton rout that could have turned the corner on the contest, her win nevertheless may ease the anxiety of some supporters after her razor-thin win in Iowa and big loss in New Hampshire. Rubio’s problem is that he needs that one-on-one matchup with Trump quickly but Cruz is in the way.
The Ohio governor also noted that since fellow governor Jeb Bush’s exit from the race Saturday night, he’s received political and fundraising support from some of Bush’s supporters.
“Kansas Republicans do not accept moderate and establishment candidates”, said Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a former state party chairman who has not endorsed any presidential candidate.
“You’re down to three candidates who are running full-scale national campaigns”, Rubio said, referring to himself, Trump and Cruz.
In the lead-up to the SC primary, Trump clashed with Bush over his brother’s handling of 9/11 and the Iraq War. “LOVE”, Trump tweeted Saturday evening. Palin has endorsed the billionaire businessman in the GOP race.
Kasich outlined his itinerary that includes upcoming stops in Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee. Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada to a US citizen mother, meet the constitutional requirements for the Oval Office.
He laid out his own road map to general election victory, pinpointing two states – MI and NY – that he said he’d sweep into the Republican column. And feel safer using it to describe Hillary Clinton once again.
With so many states on the cusp of voting, presidential campaigns typically rely on television commercials as a way to spread their message far and wide.
It’s the Republicans now heading to the West and Democrats venturing to the South. Beginning this week, candidates and their supportive super PACs are planning commercials in 22 states, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG.
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The Kansas GOP’s two-day convention in the Republican-leaning Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, which is in the state’s most populous county, came two weeks before the March 5 presidential caucuses for both parties.
