Cruz, Rubio and Kasich all face must-wins in home states

Donald Trump’s chances of winning the Republican nomination for the White House shot to a record high at online betting sites around the world on Wednesday after his latest victory in voting in Nevada.

With almost all of the vote counted, Trump received 45.9% of the vote, breaking the ceiling on his support that political experts had predicted he had faced. Marco Rubio isn’t far behind at 25 percent.

He noted that strategically, candidates focusing on MI are looking past a slew of states that vote in Super Tuesday March 1.

The poll was conducted among 446 likely GOP primary voters.

Democratic officials are betting that Trump’s over-the-top rhetoric, particularly about women and immigrants, would turn off independents and some Republicans in battleground states like Virginia. “I expect to see a glimpse of that in Houston at the debate on Thursday”. “They’ll be very happy about it.” – and to declare his intention to re-open the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which, that morning, the Obama administration had unveiled plans to close.

On the topic of Israel, Trump said his negotiating skills would help him but Rubio criticized Trump for suggesting dealing with the Middle East conflict was “a real estate deal”. Start with his thin skin, on display in the last Republican debate, when Jeb Bush went after him over eminent domain and for blaming his brother on the 9/11 attacks.

Trump hit out at Cruz as well, knocking the senator for his inability to garner presidential backing from any of his colleagues.

In the earlier GOP contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and SC, “voters were nearly evenly divided between wanting an insider or outsider in the Oval Office”, NBC News reported.

Other candidates have gone after Trump and flamed out.

Bill Ginther, a 69-year-old retiree from Midlothian, is among the Republicans so turned off by Trump they can hardly envision voting for him if he’s the nominee. John McCain in 2008, endorsed Trump in January. “A speck of dirt is way more qualified to be president”, Senator Paul added for good measure.

So much for that ceiling: Up until Tuesday, Trump’s skeptics could point to his early-contest performances to bolster this theory.

Touching on a theme he has highlighted in his ads, Cruz cited the reasoning of former President Jimmy Carter, who said he would prefer Trump over Cruz because Trump is “completely malleable” while Cruz “is not malleable”.

Still, some veteran observers wonder whether a concerted, well-funded anti-Trump campaign could prevent the billionaire from growing his support.

The candidate has five full-time employees in MI and five offices around the state, hagerstrom said.

“The global economy has changed more rapidly than many people’s ability to adjust to it”, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said in an interview.

“Except with Trump the trick is subtly different”, Mr. Douthat continues.

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