“What we’re seeing is the public coming together, libertarians coming together, men and women who love the Constitution coming together and uniting and standing as one behind this campaign”, Cruz said in Idaho.
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“TIME IS SHORT”, the Drudge Report’s main headline reads, with a viral photo of the Florida senator sitting in an oversized rocking chair. Mr Trump declared those efforts a failure, and called on Mr Rubio, once seen as the best hope to defeat him, to quit.
With the Republican race in chaos, establishment figures are frantically looking for any way to derail Mr Trump, perhaps at a contested convention if no candidate can get enough delegates to lock up the nomination in advance.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, called Trump a phony and a fraud who was playing American voters for suckers, and 2008 nominee John McCain, a USA senator from Arizona, said Trump’s foreign policy views were uninformed and unsafe.
In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Graham reiterated that he would support Sen. Marco Rubio had another disappointing night, raising serious questions about his viability in the race. Cruz suggested it was time for some Republican candidates to quit the race.
Rubio, who finished no better than third anywhere and has only one win so far, insisted the upcoming schedule of primaries is “better for us”, and renewed his vow to win his home state of Florida, claiming all 99 delegates there on March 15.
The Republican frontrunner also unabashedly said, “So far, everyone who has attacked me has gone down”.
Democrats in three states were choosing between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. “We think we have momentum and we think we’re going to do just fine”, he says.
“I think we’re seeing a shift”, Harrington said.
On the Democratic side, Clinton appears poised to win most of the state’s 147 delegates, with the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll giving Clinton a 17-point lead over Sanders.
Trump made waves when he cancelled a scheduled Saturday appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, opting instead to hold a rally in Wichita, Kansas. It was Cruz’ fifth win of the nominating race. “Little nasty guy”, Trump told the cheering crowd.
If “Super Saturday” was expected to bring any additional clarity to the race on either side of the aisle we should probably downgrade the definition of super just a bit.
But a victory – only the second, after Minnesota, for Rubio – hands the youthful Cuban American contender the 23 party convention delegates at play. Marco Rubio with 17 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 13 percent, according to NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
Should Kasich surprise with a win on Tuesday in MI, he will enter the contest next week in his home state of OH – with 66 winner-take-all delegates at stake – with a boost of momentum and media attention.
For months, Republican leaders have linked Trump and Cruz together, arguing that neither could win in November’s general election.
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“Thank you to Louisiana, and thank you to Kentucky”, Trump said in Florida after he was projected to be the victor in Kentucky, where he led Cruz by four percentage points. Kasich has said he’ll drop out of the presidential contest if he doesn’t win OH, and is gearing up for a convention fight if he prevails. Offering anything but clarity, Republicans delivered a split verdict between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in the latest round of presidential voting, offering fresh evidence of the turmoil still roiling the GOP after 19 states have had their say.
