Before yesterday’s primaries, Trump was leading with 384 delegates.
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Rubio was a distant third or fourth in the races on Saturday, and failed to even meet the threshold to net any delegates in Louisiana and Maine.
After Tuesday’s results, Clinton has accumulated 1,214 delegates and Sanders 566, including superdelegates – members of Congress, governors and party officials who can support the candidate of their choice at the convention.
That puts the pressure on Rubio and Kasich to prevail over Trump in winner-take-all contests in their delegate-rich home states of Florida and OH, respectively, in order to stay in the race. Ted Cruz in second place with 22%, Florida Sen.
Rubio has not won any states during primary voting, but won the caucus in Minnesota on Super Tuesday and the Puerto Rico Republican primary over the weekend. The Florida senator is widely believed to need a win in his home state to remain a viable alternative to Trump, a billionaire real-estate developer who is running as an outsider.
But the poll numbers could be most troubling for Rubio.
Rubio touted his plans to roll back regulations, balance the federal budget, reform the tax code and repeal and replace Obamacare.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump has racked up primary wins in the big prize of MI and in MS, while Democrat Bernie Sanders has breathed new life into his White House bid with an upset win over Hillary Clinton.
The poll shows that 38 percent of likely Florida GOP primary voters support Trump, while 30 percent support Rubio. “I want Ted one on one”.
That gain improves Sanders’ hopes heading into the next round of contests, but it still makes his overall task of unseating Clinton a daunting one.
There have been a great many theories about how Trump will eventually lose that have been utterly debunked.
Cruz added that his campaign is “seeing record turnouts” and “also earning the votes of young people” in answer to critics who claim the senator’s best states are behind him. Both parties have elections in Kansas and Louisiana – in addition, the GOP is holding caucuses in ME and Kentucky, and Democrats have a caucus in Nebraska. Cruz alternated between attacking Trump and attempting to stand above the fray. But Idaho, where he lost to Ted Cruz, was closed. He faces a sudden-death contest in Florida next week.
Some mainstream Republicans have cast both Trump and Cruz as unelectable in a November faceoff with the Democratic nominee.
Still, consider this just an interesting theory for the time being.
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