Major GOP donors to pressure Kasich to leave race

A survey by CNN-ORC gave him 45 per cent, compared to 19 per cent for Ted Cruz and 17 per cent for Marco Rubio.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said he would like to punch a protester “in the face” after a man was thrown out of a rally in Las Vegas.

Mr Trump continued to lash out at rival Ted Cruz, telling the crowd: “This guy is sick”.

But Rubio declared, “This has become a three-person race and we will win the nomination”.

US Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush pauses as he announces the end of his presidential nomination campaign, at his South Carolina primary night party in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday, February 20 2016.

The guards were being “very gentle”, Mr Trump said, allowing the man to walk out of the arena smiling.

Mr. Trump, the brash New Yorker, had a resounding victory in SC on Saturday, sweeping all 50 delegates. Charlie Dent and Ryan Costello, both of whom represent parts of Berks County, and other leader at the DoubleTree Hotel in Reading.

“There are going to be a lot of circumstances where we can declare some victories and at least get this thing to March 15”, Beeson said. Republican presidential candidate, Sen.

Hour after his strong, second-place showing in South Carolina, Rubio took off from the Palmetto State for rallies in Nashville, Little Rock and Las Vegas.

“If Cruz bows out those voters could be split between Trump and Rubio, that is why Trump is hammering Cruz all day long and not Rubio”, said O’Connell.

Mr Cruz questioned Mr Trump’s conservative bona fides, noting his formerly progressive views on social issues such as abortion. He’s also placing a lot of hope in MI, which votes a week later, but Rubio is already consolidating support among party elites (in the past week he’s been endorsed by two Governors, a Senator and two Congressmen) and is poised to do much better than Kasich in Nevada and most Super Tuesday states.

“If you’re running for president of the United States, you can’t just tell people you’re going to make America great again”, he said, referring to Mr Trump’s campaign slogan.

Rubio and Cruz used the Sunday morning news shows to spin rosy-road-forward scenarios after complete but unofficial returns in SC put Trump way up top, with Rubio squeaking past Cruz for second.

On the other side of the country, Hillary Clinton blunted concerns about her viability with a clear victory over Bernie Sanders in Nevada, the first state to test the Democrats’ appeal among a racially diverse group of voters.

John Kasich will soldier on – he was already in MA yesterday, campaigning for the primary there on 1 March while voters were still queuing up in SC.

Kasich’s campaign says Ridge is signing on as a national co-chairman. “I think I can work with anyone who comes out to be the nominee”.

Rubio has been saying he’s the best candidate to win the general election.