It’s looking like a Clinton-Trump race

Cruz tried to brush right past his apparent third-place finish in SC and instead hark back to his victory over Trump in leadoff Iowa. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign Monday for what Mr. Rubio described as a pattern of dealing in deception and falsehoods, with the latest controversy coming over something Mr. Rubio had said to a Cruz staffer about the Bible.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich speaks at his “South Carolina Primary Election Results Watch Party” in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on February 20, 2016.

Also on Saturday, Donald Trump won the Republican primary in SC.

According to the New York Times, several voters and politicians alike noted that this marks a new generation of conservatism, one in which voters can not be swayed by Bush-era figures.

While five men officially remain in the race for the Republican nomination, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy billed it as a two-man contest between front-runner Trump and Rubio.

“I see more Trump/Rubio because I think Cruz’s whole strategy of winning, he didn’t plan on Trump and when you look at going through the evangelical vote and others, he lost that”, McCarthy said.

Fresh off a commanding victory in South Carolina, Donald Trump declined to say the nomination was his to lose. Sanders held a rally Monday in MA, one of the Super Tuesday primary states where he is running strongest.

The presidential campaigns are moving into a cluster of delegate-rich state primary elections and caucuses, with Republican billionaire businessman Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, gathering momentum. That advantage might lessen as the field winnows, but it gave him a big advantage early on. Heading into Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Nevada, he has 67 delegates. “I think it’s going to be Hillary and myself”, he said. “I have a lot of friends here and a lot of family, but I’m not sure that’s going to be enough to be a determinative factor in the caucus”.

“It seems to me most mainstream Republicans will rally to Rubio’s side”, said veteran GOP fundraiser Fred Malek, who’s neutral in this fight. The young senator from Florida achieved a notable, if distant, second place in SC. Marco Rubio of Florida defeating him by this point would defy decades of precedent. But Mr Sanders claimed his campaign had an electoral wind at its back. Since Friday, Rubio has added 12 new Congressional or gubernatorial endorsements, while Trump and Cruz have added none.