After Saturday, Clinton still won’t be able to shut Sanders out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, even though she pulled in another win Saturday and leads the delegate count.
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Sanders has acknowledged that his campaign does poorly among Southern black voters but also projects confidence that he will do better. What’s more interesting is his win in ME, where so many people expected that the business mogul would sweep the state in the blink of an eye.
If Rubio’s slide continues, he would be the latest candidate backed by establishment Republicans – who have aligned themselves with the party’s traditional power structure – to fall victim to an angry, frustrated electorate that cares little about endorsements from party leaders or newspaper editorial boards. Rubio’s team says the campaign’s polling shows the race tightening, with Trump leading by single digits, slightly less than recent public polling.
Sanders leads the four Republicans in Democrat vs. Trump has vowed to deport undocumented immigrants and calls for building a border wall that he says will be paid by Mexico. An ABC/Washington Post GOP national poll in January showed Trump ahead of Cruz 37% to 21%.
Romney’s dad, George Romney, was the former MI governor, and many voters in the Mitten State still hold on to some affection for the Romney family.
Democrats and Republicans in MI and MS began voting at 7a.m. Hawaii and Idaho are holding Republican-only contests.
And despite winning the Puerto Rico primary for his second victory of the campaign on Sunday, Rubio appears to be headed for another tough night.
What has been an at times ill-tempered and deeply personal contest could yet plunge into deeper acrimony: there is a chance that no candidate will rack up the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination before the Republican convention in July.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton maintained large leads in their respective primaries in NY, but Clinton had a sizable advantage against Trump in a general election matchup in their home state, a poll Monday found.
He’ll likely stay in for the winner-take-all March 15 contest in his home state of OH, but what’s his sell for staying in after that – aside from maybe trying to keep Trump below a majority heading into the convention by picking off votes and delegates where he can in more moderate places? Some states, like Florida, Ohio, Arizona and New Jersey, are victor take all; others are more hybrid. The question that still remains for him is: Will he grow his support? That’s why he’s been publicly calling for candidates, like Rubio, to get out of the race. Cruz added a win in Idaho, bolstering his case that he’s the only candidate who can beat Trump with some regularity.
Polls are open 7 a.m.to 8 p.m.
That could mean backing Cruz – the ultra-conservative Texas senator once reviled by fellow Republicans as a “wacko bird” eager to shut down the United States government – at the expense of Marco Rubio, the establishment hopeful who is lagging in third place and facing calls to give up. Rubio had 123 delegates and Kasich had 33. Ted Cruz, who shrugged off a disappointing showing on Super Tuesday last week. Bernie Sanders won three of four events, with solid victories in the ME and Kansas caucuses, and a 14 point win in the Nebraska caucus. It takes 2 383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination. The former secretary of state holds an overall lead of around 200 pledged delegates over Sanders, whose spirited campaign has enlivened grass-roots Democrats and tugged her to the left on some key issues.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a distant fourth in the GOP delegate chase, has spent significant time in MI and is hoping to get a big boost from his neighboring state.
