Clinton, Sanders Would Beat Trump

“So if it looked like what you’re now seeing on the Republican side, with renegade candidates like Donald Trump whom the party doesn’t like, these people would be a counterbalance”. Basically, everything we know about party nomination processes told us that sooner or later, Trump would implode. Texas is among 12 states taking part in Super Tuesday.

Democrats will vote in 11 states and American Samoa on Super Tuesday, with 865 delegates up for grabs.

This is all consistent with Henry Olsen and Dante Scala’s theory in their forthcoming book, “The Four Faces of the Republican Party”, which finds Republican nomination battles are fairly stable within factions, but the order and rate at which the field winnows have a lot to do with who ultimately wins.

With Trump poised for a big Republican delegate haul, his GOP rivals will be searching for any shreds of encouraging news to justify remaining in the race. He was ending his day in his home state of Vermont, which stands as the only sure thing in his Super Tuesday calculus, underscoring Clinton’s sky-high expectations of padding her delegate lead this week.

As the Democratic contests also move out of the South, Clinton and Sanders are running close in the state. Sorry Sanders, your home state of Vermont tends to be slow to report. Bernie Sanders for Bay State voters, Clinton mentioned that 400 MA bridges are considered structurally deficient while discussing the need for investment in infrastructure, and name-dropped the late U.S. Sen.

Like South Carolina, Georgia’s Democratic primary is expected to have high African-American turnout, which could again bode well for Clinton.

The wildcard states In three states – Alaska, Arkansas and Minnesota – polls show Trump either trailing or leading by a margin so small it’s essentially meaningless.

The tycoon may be looking stronger than ever as he goes into Super Tuesday but his popularity among Republicans continues to be dogged by controversy.

Tuesday will answer whether Marco Rubio’s debate-night transformation from bland RubioBot to Marco Rambo can begin to take down the months-long leader in preference polls and now delegates. The Klan advocates white supremacy, and has sometimes used violence.

He bemoaned the current discourse in the GOP and said it was time to get back to focusing on how Republicans would solve the nation’s problems. So campaigns spent more time worrying about traditional “invisible primary” concerns than how the ground was shifting under their feet.

Several high-profile Republicans and conservative writers have embraced an anti-Trump social media campaign, using the Twitter hashtag “NeverTrump”. Just under half of those who responded would not commit to backing him, foreshadowing a potentially extraordinary break this fall.

Republican Ted Cruz won Iowa. Dan Coats said in a statement to the AP.

Tensions boiled over during a Trump rally Monday in Virginia, where he was repeatedly disrupted by demonstrators, including 20 or more chanting “Black lives matter”.

Ryan said Tuesday he tries to stay out of the “day-to-day ups and downs of the primary” but, “when I see something that runs counter to who we are as a party and as a country, I will speak up”.

Donald Trump better enjoy his winning streak while it lasts.

“On Tuesday, you have a big day”, Trump told supporters at a big rally in Tennessee, saying he didn’t care if someone was at death’s door or if their wife was leaving them-they had to vote.

Party leaders are particularly anxious about the ripple effect of a Trump nomination on other races for Congress and governor.

A series of winner-take-all Republican primaries is coming, none bigger than Florida on March 15, where a cache of 99 delegates is at stake and Rubio will be bidding furiously for a home-state victory against Trump, a part-time resident who got a head start on organizing there.