Politics Podcast: It’s Mean … It’s Beautiful … It’s The South Carolina Primary

But their sights were not only on Trump.

In the Democratic race, Vermont Sen.

Clinton was happy with her Nevada win but acknowledged she has work to do in persuading voters that she has their best interests at heart. Noting Trump’s sustained dominance in the race, Ingram said “logic has been thrown out the window this entire political season”. Following the SC primary, he remains the Republican favorite.

Cruz now trails Donald Trump and Marco Rubio in Nevada, with 17 percent of the vote to the NY billionaire’s 45 percent and Florida Sen. “Trump now has 61 delegates, and he needs 1,237”, he wrote.

Jeb Bush reacts as he announces the suspension of his presidential campaign at an election night party at the Hilton Columbia Center in Columbia, South Carolina, on February 20, 2016.

Cruz was one of four GOP presidential candidates making a final push through Nevada on Monday, one day before the party’s caucus in the Silver State.

Dr. Ben Carson’s last place finish in the South Carolina Republican primary (he earned 7.2% of the total votes cast) on Saturday has given rise to speculation that he must make some hard choices about whether or not to continue his campaign – especially after Jeb Bush, who came in slightly higher than Carson at 7.8% in South Carolina, announced he was suspending his campaign on Saturday.

A reasonable person might adjudicate the case as follows: Yes, if the Republican nomination becomes a two-man race between Trump and Rubio, it could be pretty close.

Trump won all 50 delegates and 32.5 percent of the vote, leading second place finisher Rubio by a 10 percent margin. A win in some key state.

“I just feel that Rubio is the more serious candidate. So, we 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 determinant factor in the caucus”. “I guess one of their spokespersons apologized, and I accept their apology”.

Cruz fired his main spokesman, Rick Tyler, yesterday afternoon over a video that falsely showed Rubio dismissing the Bible. “African- Americans in their prime are substantially worse off than the whites in their prime, and it’s a very sad situation”, the 69-year-old said.

So far, nothing has damaged Donald Trump’s presidential run – not the attention focused on his derogatory comments about fellow Republican candidates, not footage of him uttering various profanities, not even a verbal smackdown by Pope Francis. Democratic presidential hopefuls coming off a tight battle for Nevada kicked off the week on opposite ends of the country Monday. Clinton has 449 super delegates to Sanders 19.

Mrs Clinton’s next test will be in the Democrats’ South Carolina primary on Saturday.