Cruz and Trump divide the vote of the 40% of Republican primary voters who say they are “born-again”, while Trump is well ahead of those who do not.
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“I want to release my tax returns, but I can’t release it while I’m under an audit”, Trump explained.
Opponents are attacking him more viciously, and are already launching a pre-emptive message that whatever happens Tuesday is just another stop in a long, slow chug toward the final station.
A total of 595 Republican delegates are up for grabs of the 1,237 needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images Marco Rubio greets supporters before speaking at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., on Sunday.
Whitman adds that Trump is “unfit to be president” and “a dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears”.
If Clinton has similarly strong wins in the Southern states that vote on Tuesday, the gains may be enough to grow her delegate lead to the point where Sanders can’t catch up.
In pure mathematical terms, Trump now has only 81 delegates.
In Tennessee, Republicans will award 58 delegates Tuesday.
The contests on Tuesday, across 12 states, herald several weeks of nationwide skirmishes that will be decisive in determining who gets to face off for the White House in the fall. They have every incentive to hang on until their home states vote March 15 in big winner-take-all primaries.
But even as the establishment scrambles furiously to block Trump’s path, some members of the Republican inner circle have thrown their support behind The Donald.
In Virginia, Rubio is running almost 14 points behind Trump as per RealClearPolitics.Com which tracks all the major national and State polls.
“Expectations (and momentum) don’t matter”.
Cruz and Marco Rubio are the leading contenders trying to slow down Trump.
But the Republican party is nervous. The special general election for sheriff is in April. The sense of incredulity is captured this week in a one-word headline on the front of the Economist with Trump drawn as Uncle Sam: “Really?”
Trump’s extraordinary bombast during the campaign, including calling some Mexican immigrants “rapists” and urging a ban on Muslims entering the country, would have been the undoing of a normal candidate.
While the Republicans were hitting all the political talk shows Sunday, Hillary Clinton was quietly savoring her victory in SC. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., speaks to media during a rally at Liberty Plaza in Atlanta on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016.
The billionaire on Sunday passed up an opportunity to condemn former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke of Louisiana and other white supremacists who have expressed support for his 2016 presidential bid.
And he appeared to fumble the easiest question in American politics: Do you disavow the support of a Ku Klux Klansman?
“I disavowed David Duke”. Trump told host Jake Tapper. It’s a very good quote…
Be Civil – It’s OK to have a difference in opinion but there’s no need to be a jerk. Both have gone on the offensive against Trump in the days that followed.
On the Democratic side, Clinton leads U.S. Sen. Because Republican brass are now frantically warning that the sheep are being led to the slaughterhouse. “We’re about to lose the conservative movement to someone who’s not a conservative and the party of Lincoln and Reagan to a con artist”.
Henderson says there has been “lots of chatter, especially among Trump supporters, about how well Trump would do among African-American and Latino voters”.
Cruz, while remaining a distant second to Trump in presidential preference, is getting criticized – even by Republican voters – for the nature of his campaign, which has been charged with spreading rumors about other candidates, and using unfair tactics.
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“It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover”.
