GOP candidates in high-stakes chess match in South Carolina

Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are about neck and neck atop the GOP presidential field, according to a new NBC/WSJ national poll. “If you want to file a lawsuit challenging this ad, claiming defamation, file the lawsuit”.

In the MSNBC forum, Trump responded to several questions about his hard-hitting campaign style and his temperament.

A Winthrop poll in December found Haley with an 81 percent approval rating among Republican likely primary voters in SC, including 84 percent of those who support the tea party. But I do believe he might have standing to bring that lawsuit as a competitor of yours. Likewise, if I want to bring the lawsuit regarding Senator Cruz being a natural born Canadian I will do so. Trump says he has evolved into a conservative and is now against abortion.

Attacks between Trump and Cruz have intensified this week.

Cruz, the governor said, is a “very, very smart guy and very consistent I think on his conservative principles, so he has a lot of appeal”.

While politics is a bottom-line business, the new polls, particularly when viewed in context with other recent surveys, reveal both good and bad news for Kasich in sc, where Republicans on Saturday will pick whom to award all 50 of the state’s delegates.

“If we elect Marco Rubio, every day will be a great day in America”, Haley said with Rubio at her side at an event in Chapin, South Carolina.

Haley’s endorsement of Rubio was a blow to the candidacy of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, coming two days after Bush’s brother, former President George W. Bush, met with Haley privately in the state capital, Columbia.

“It’s just a pattern of people around his campaign that have continuously done things like that”, Rubio said.

Another fan said he hopes that Trump will drop an “F-bomb”. By backing Rubio, Haley throws her support to the establishment-friendly candidate who appears best positioned to contend with Donald Trump and Sen.

Rubio media adviser Todd Harris said on Twitter that Cruz was “unhinged and unpresidential”.

A slight majority of voters say their minds are made up on which candidate to support, while 43 percent say they could still change their minds. “Cruz’s campaign of personal insult, deceptions, push polls and ads so misleading they can’t be aired”, said Rubio in a statement issued late in the afternoon.