Jeb Bush drops out of White House race
Donald Trump won the state in a rout, with Florida Sen.
“These geniuses”, Trump said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Tonight, I am suspending my campaign”, Bush said after a disappointing showing in South Carolina’s Republican primary, appearing to fight back tears.
Trump’s win in SC comes day after Trump got into a war of words with Pope Francis, who bashed Trump for his popular policy of building a wall along the Mexico border.
According to exit polls, Clinton won blacks by 76-22 in Nevada.
In Nevada, Hillary Clinton and Vermont U.S. Sen. Instead she heads to what should be a friendly reception in SC next week with the possibility of starting a winning streak that she could ride to the nomination.
In the Iowa caucuses on February 1, which kicked off the 2016 presidential cycle for the November polls, Jeb was placed sixth with an abysmally low 2.8 per cent votes. During his victory speech Saturday, Trump did not mention or offer any good wishes for Bush. But those fortunes didn’t extend to Sanders this weekend.
“If you are a conservative, this is where you belong because only one strong conservative is in a position to win this race”. Jeb Bush has many things to be proud of, he is an extraordinary husband, he’s an extraordinary father, he was the greatest governor in the history of Florida and I believe and I pray that his service to our country has not yet ended. With donors ready to bolt, the political scion dropped out of the race after failing to break into the top three.
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney released a statement Saturday praising Jeb Bush after the latter dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The biggest question facing Republicans now is whether those seeking to spoil a Trump nomination have simply run out of time. A superPAC supporting Cruz was pushing out robo-calls, hitting Trump for supporting last summer’s removal of the Confederate flag from the State Capitol grounds and for backing “forward motion” of LGBT rights.
Cruz, who defeated Trump in the Iowa caucuses and was hoping for a repeat in the SC primary, says he is seeking to build “the old Reagan coalition” of evangelicals, economic conservatives, young people and Ronald Reagan-style Democrats.