Cruz campaign has reason for concern after SC

Cruz, right behind Rubio in the SC vote, stressed his conservative credentials and said he was the lone “strong conservative in this race who can win”.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton partisans are parsing the results of Saturday’s Nevada caucus to bolster their respective candidate’s narratives, but the numbers that should concern all Democrats is voter turnout. With about 88 per cent of precincts reporting, Clinton was at 52.6 percent to 47.4 per cent for Sanders.

Sanders took a hard look at the where the delegate math takes him from here.

“Frankly, if she gets indicted (for using personal emails for official purposes), that’s the only way she’s going to be stopped”.

Clinton won Iowa by a hair, setting the stage for a longer fight for the Democratic nomination.

“Now, I’m heading on”. Sanders said his campaign believed that “we have the wind at our back as we head toward Super Tuesday”, as the blockbuster election day is known.

After winning the second contest in New Hampshire, the democratic socialist came up in short in Nevada, where Clinton collected the majority of delegates and told gleeful supporters that “this one is for you”.

They are left with Ted Cruz, who is widely disliked and portrays himself as an anti-establishment candidate, OH governor John Kasich, or Marco Rubio – a former protégé of Jeb Bush, who would be much more to their liking but has stumbled in debates.

“This is your campaign, and it is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back”, Clinton said in her victory speech at her Caesars Palace headquarters on the Las Vegas Strip.

Mr Trump’s victory in SC, however, was more convincing. Underscoring the electorate’s frustration with Washington, he was backed by almost 4 in 10 of those who were angry at the federal government, and a third of those who felt betrayed by politicians in the Republican Party.

“There is no doubt that Republican voters will go towards Rubio since he is the last “establishment Republican” running that can win the nomination”, Zhu said. “So going forward, I think Ted Cruz has to talk about how the evangelical vote isn’t just about social issues…it’s about your view of America”. “[Cruz] comes across as negative – somewhat mean-spirited… all the charm of a toothache, I think I heard somebody say”.