“The people of Iowa and New Hampshire and SC have spoken”, Bush said during his concession speech.
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The New Hampshire secretary of State’s office released the certified GOP delegate count Monday, showing Trump with 11 delegates to the national convention.
The Gravis poll accurately predicted Democrat Hillary Clinton’s win with 53 percent of the delegate count in Saturday’s Nevada Democratic caucuses.
In that state, Trump was the big victor, finishing ahead of his nearest challenger by 10 percentage points.
As for Mr Trump, he declined to say the Republican nomination was his to lose, but he quickly went on to declare: “I’m really on my way”.
Donald Trump won easily in SC over the weekend, though by a smaller margin than recent polls showed, prompting naysayers to declare his ship is finally sinking.
Red State Editor Erick Erickson said February 18 that Bush’s campaign would end Saturday.
Sounding less like his normally combative self, Trump on Sunday credited Bush in a pair of interviews with having fought hard in the campaign and called him “very capable”.
It was a humiliating turn for the former Florida governor who a year ago seemed certain to win the nomination, with donors providing a war chest of $100?million (pounds 70?million).
The victor in SC, again, was Donald Trump, who mostly is self-financing his campaign, but has gained large dollops of free publicity while leveraging provocative Twitter attacks on his opponents. “I think that is a question that people are trying to sort through”. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz tied for second.
Beck said the next day he was sticking with his plan despite the volley of tweets from Trump supporters – one said “you’re insane” and another posted a picture today of Beck eating a sandwich, saying “busted”.
Meantime, former Homeland Security head and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who had previously backed Bush, endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Afterward, he didn’t follow his rivals westward to Nevada but headed to campaign stops in two more Super Tuesday states: Virginia and Georgia.
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Aides to Bush’s campaign vehemently denied reports prior to Saturday’s primary election in SC that their candidate was hemorrhaging cash. It doesn’t bode well that his evangelist messaging failed to win over a Southern state where an incredible 72 percent of primary voters identified as either evangelical or born-again Christian, according to exit polls. Couple his support with the 15% who are undecided right now, and that could be enough to tip the scales toward one candidate. And then there is Super Tuesday, on March 1, when many states will hold their primaries.
