Chasing Trump, GOP Candidates Cruz, Rubio Visit Atlanta Area
“Listen, if Donald becomes president, who the heck knows what he would do?” As a candidate, Christie ridiculed the Republican frontrunner for having a “make-believe” campaign that amounted to little more than reality TV and sought to remind voters that they aren’t electing an “entertainer-in-chief”.
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who crushed Sen.
Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In the Democratic race, meanwhile, Clinton leads Sanders in Georgia by 34 points among likely Democratic primary voters, 64 percent to 30 percent.
The sheer scale of the battlefield favors Trump, whose ubiquitous media profile means he is known everywhere, and Clinton, whose decades in public life give her an advantage over the lesser-known Sanders. He’s “rewriting the rules” or “making it up as he goes along” depending on how you want to look at it.
“Sometimes you have to take a stand, and that’s what Judge Gonzales did when he was attorney general of the United States”, he said.
“I think there are many out there who are rooting for that outcome so that he’s the nominee, and you can see it in the coverage he’s gotten”, he said.
He had meant to wait to officially endorse until after Super Tuesday or the mid-March primaries, but Thursday night’s debate changed his view, the person said.
Cruz has said numerous times over the past week he has been focusing on Texas in the lead-up to Super Tuesday, calling it the “crown jewel” of the major voting day. Rubio is desperate to at last secure an elusive win, somewhere, anywhere. Other polls have given Cruz the advantage in his home state. “It takes 1,237 delegates to be the nominee of the Republican Party”.
661 Republican delegates and 865 Democrats are at stake.
Republicans are competing for delegates to be awarded Tuesday in Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. MA is only one of 13 states that vote on Super Tuesday.
He endorsed Trump over Cruz.
“I am not sure throwing the whole kitchen sink is going to make much difference in the trajectory of the race”, said Ford O’Connell, a GOP strategist not now working for any presidential candidate. We have had a wonderful relationship for many years.
“Nobody’s going to win but Trump”. He has respect for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, but sees no realistic path for him to the nomination.