As the race moves on, the two parties are on separate battlefields.
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The South Carolina primary is central to Republican presidential candidate Sen.
The victor of the GOP South Carolina primary will get a big boost in the delegate count heading into Super Tuesday on March 1, as he will pick up at least 29 delegates.
By opposing the Iraq War, Trummo might have tried to encourage the Independents and Democrats to vote in South carolina’s open primary.
If Ted Cruz, who won the Iowa caucus but fared badly in New Hampshire, ends up close to Trump (NBC/WSJ survey predicted him to be two points ahead of Trump nationally, which is an encouragement for his supporters), then Trump will have a serious race in his hand amd might have to think some other strategy besides his predictably unpredictable campaigning.
Cruz took a veiled swipe at Trump and his slogan.
“I don’t want your money”, added Trump, who is self-funding his campaign. “We have to go out tomorrow we have to go out and vote”. It will be telling to see how much support from religious conservatives Trump can siphon.
Trump leads with 28% support, but the ultra-conservative Cruz is not far behind with 23%, according to an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released Friday. “We have to have a nominee, Republican, who can bring the party together and reach out to moderates and independents and not just the far right-wing”, said former Republican Senator Bob Dole, who endorsed Bush rather than Rubio in November, in an interview early this week with National Review.
Republican presidential candidates, from left, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen.
The past week on the campaign trail has been nasty for Trump and Cruz.
“He’s going to pack his bags and go home after South Carolina”, Benfield said.
Trump has since changed his stance on the sensitive issue.
This was his last campaign event before Saturday’s primary. He called waterboarding “minor, minor” torture – and when describing how he felt about the now-abandoned tactic he said, “I feel great about it”.
For Clinton, the pressure is on as Sanders has closed the poll gap in Nevada, a state once considered to be an easy win for Clinton. Democrats will gather at 200 caucus sites across the state, including six at Las Vegas Strip casinos so housekeepers, blackjack dealers and others with weekend schedules can attend.
“Senator Sanders wasn’t really a Democrat until he chose to run for president”.
Sanders has defended himself by saying the 2007 law did not do enough to protect “guest workers”, and that he voted in 2013 for an immigration reform bill, which never came to fruition due to Republican opposition in the House.
“The only way you can become president is if your fellow citizens vote for you”, he said.
Clinton’s line of attack is that Sanders is offering impractical, pie-in-the-sky ideas.
A total of four political consultants reportedly said they were in contact with Bush employees about departures following the Palmetto State primary. The GOP holds its caucus in Nevada on Tuesday, while Democrats face off in SC on February 27.
“Well, I, instead of looking at ending it, am looking at ascending in the polls and making progress”, Carson said.
Sanders’s camp is nevertheless convinced that young minority voters will back him.
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“We are here to win”, Mr Sanders declared on Friday during a rally in sparsely populated Elko, Nevada.
