On the Republican side, Ted Cruz gained ground on Donald Trump and in Democrat contests Bernie Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money.
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Possible Cruz supporters include reluctant Senate colleagues and former presidential rivals with strong ties to major donors, who have long feared Cruz’s purist ideology but dread the prospect of a Trump nomination even more. Romney has said that he can not in good conscience vote for a person who has been as “degrading and disruptive and unhinged as Donald Trump”, and he is pleading for voters to stop voting for Trump and to get behind a “real Republican”.
On Tuesday, Trump won Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii. Kasich and Rubio are also fighting to win their home states of OH and Florida next week in winner-take-all contests.
The delegate math highlights the importance of primaries in states like OH and Florida, which allocate all of their delegates to the victor.
The Florida senator, the son of Cuban migrants, is seeking to win the Florida primary on Tuesday and thus rescue his flagging campaign for the White House.
The four remaining Republican presidential candidates met again onstage Thursday night in Miami, in a state that represents the last chance for one of them, Florida Sen. Trump (48%) would potentially have a decided edge over Cruz (40%) in a head to head vote in Florida.
Ted Cruz solidified his second place in the GOP race Tuesday, with a seventh state under his belt. Many Republicans have begun to question the rationale for both Rubio and Kasich’s campaigns, and they’ll both need a breakout moment tonight. Clinton breezed to an easy victory in MS, propelled by overwhelming support from black voters, and she now has more than half the delegates she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination at the party’s national convention in July.
Rubio brought a positive message, taking the high road in his bitter battle with Trump on his home turf.
CNN’s Florida poll was conducted among 1,014 adults, including 313 likely Republican voters and 264 likely Democratic voters.
The Trump train is rolling right over and through the assembled GOP establishment. “There are things I don’t agree with him on, but if we are agreeing 80 per cent of the time and he’s a conservative, we are going to get along just fine”.
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The CNN poll, taken March 2 through March 6, has a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points.
