“I get audited”, Trump said during the Thursday-night Republican presidential debate. He polled 42 percent in Alabama, with Rubio and Cruz behind with 19 percent and 16 percent respectively.
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“It’s wonderful what’s going on”, he told NBC, calling his campaign a “movement”.
Mr Sanders acknowledged being “decimated” in SC, though he promised to continue his campaign against what he describes as a political and economic oligarchy. Trump also said he had clearly made separation with Duke over the weekend in posts on Twitter and Facebook. Ted Cruz of Texas at 15 percent.
While Christie would frequently empathize with voters who were channeling their frustration into Trump’s candidacy during his campaign, he would close by making the case that it’s not enough “to just burn Washington down” but that you must have a leader who also knows how to rebuild it as well.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, the highest-profile elected official to back the NY billionaire in his pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination.
“I signed a pledge and I will, you know, abide by the pledge unless they default, but as far as I’m concerned they’re defaulting”, he said.
“There is no doubt that if Donald steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable”, Cruz acknowledged on CBS’s “Face the Nation”.
Meanwhile, Cruz asserted that Trump would likely lose in a general election matchup with Democrat Hillary Clinton, and said Trump “doesn’t even know what he’d do” as president should he win the race to the White House. “You can’t win the nomination if you can’t win any states”, Cruz said. “And that’s OK. That’s what makes this country great is that people can have differences of political opinion”, he said.
“I will support the Republican nominee”.
‘They do not know the playbook with Donald Trump because he is rewriting the playbook of American politics, ‘ Christie said.
A lot hinges on what happens next week in the 11 states – mostly in the South – holding nominating contests on what’s known as Super Tuesday.
“He’s got to pull off a surprise against Clinton soon or he won’t have time to recover”, he said. “We’re going to be in as many states as it takes to ensure that I’m the nominee”.
Trump held a substantial lead last week in the southern region where Republican voters have their say in primaries on March 1.
On the Democratic side, Clinton leads U.S. Sen. She won the support of almost 9 in 10 black voters, crucial Democratic backers who had abandoned her for Obama in 2008.
With just two days to go before the biggest showdown yet in the United States presidential race, Clinton gained crucial momentum in the race for the Democratic nomination after crushing Bernie Sanders 74.5 to 28 per cent.
Sanders, expecting defeat on Saturday, left the state before voting finished and turned his attention to states outside the South that vote in next Tuesday’s contests. Ted Cruz acknowledged that winning Texas on Super Tuesday will be crucial to his campaign.
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Sanders is expected to win in his home state of Vermont, where few delegates are at stake, and also contend in neighboring MA, the western state of Colorado and Minnesota.
