New Poll Suggests S.C. May Be Tighter Than First Thought

Across the continent, Nevada Democrats will choose between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on the same day.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are neck and neck as the SC primary approaches, according to latest poll. As of February 16, Trump polls at 36.7 percent to Texas Sen.

Rubio communications director Alex Conant, in an email, said, “We will not allow Ted Cruz to do to Marco in SC what he did to Ben Carson in Iowa”, referring to Cruz campaign organizers wrongly telling Ben Carson supporters during the caucuses that their candidate was dropping out.

Another rival wasn’t so ready Friday to concede anything to Trump. A sped-up message at the end of the recording says the Cruz campaign had no involvement in the creation of the robocall.

At the same time, ironically, Trump, who is being targeted in this pro-Cruz ad, has grabbed the spotlight time and again in this campaign with impolitic rhetoric that threatens the GOP’s diversity effort. Bush’s SC numbers have more of a slow-and-steady quality to them, but his solid showing at Saturday night’s Republican debate had some people anticipating a significant uptick after a lackluster turn on the trail so far.

Senator Rubio believes, just as President Ronald Reagan did, that expanding missile defense is a moral necessity and a national security imperative. ‘If we win in SC, we feel we could run the table, ‘ [Donald} Trump told a crowd of cheering supporters in Walterboro, a line he has repeated throughout the state this week. He even put it on a baseball cap. But, he asked, “Do you understand what made America great in the first place?”

CHARLESTON, S.C. Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush are locked in a bare-knuckled fight for third place in a SC primary vote on Saturday, afraid that anything less could blunt their White House hopes. Support for Donald Trump has not significantly changed since December when he received 35 percent.

The critically important Republican presidential primary in SC is tomorrow, and after a period of relative silence from pollsters, we’ve received quite a bit of data over the last several days. That’s the smallest difference between favorable and unfavorable opinions of any of the remaining candidates in the Republican field.

Most of that doesn’t matter in primaries and caucuses, where voters have all the say….

Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said, “Cruz said at the time that it was a decision for leaders in the state to make and his position has not changed”.

But first she faces a test in Nevada, where the polls are tight.