Marco Rubio Believes He Must Be ‘Doing Something Right’
“I know Trump is a clear front-runner, he’s been in first place since June”, he said.
Trump leads a Republican field that has been in flux in the final days of campaigning across snowy New Hampshire.
Among likely Republican primary voters, Trump is leading by double-digits in the polls in New Hampshire – just as he is in the rest of America.
That would be Trump, whom 32 percent said they could never vote for. Ted Cruz in TV ads and mailings.
“Marco is having a hard time”, Trump told a crowd of thousands.
The results could change the campaign’s course, with weaker candidates knowing that a poor showing might signal the end of their White House dreams for 2016. So a big, double-digit win for Sanders would give him a huge boost heading into next week’s Nevada caucuses, where the Clinton campaign is hoping their union-based “firewall” is still strong.
In the Democratic race, Sanders tops Clinton 61% to 35%, an uptick for Sanders since the last update to the tracking poll, while Clinton holds steady. He slid to second and was nearly overtaken by Rubio, the third-place finisher.
Donald Trump faux-admonished and then repeated a woman who called Ted Cruz a “pussy” at a rally here on Monday night.
Dante Scala, an analyst on local politics at the University of New Hampshire, said that if Rubio did not do well in Tuesday’s primary, “it isn’t fatal necessarily, but it makes the road to the nomination longer and riskier”. If they are unaffiliated, voters can choose whether they want to partake in the Democratic or Republican party’s primary.
One wealthy person Trump definitely doesn’t get along with is rival Jeb Bush, who tweeted about Trump Monday: “You aren’t just a loser, you are a liar and a whiner”. U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., meanwhile, won the GOP primary in 2008 before going on to represent Republicans in November. By the way, what they like to say around here is that Iowa picks corn, New Hampshire picks presidents, which they do have a pretty good record of doing and we’ll see who they pick tomorrow. Not so in New Hampshire, where blustery winds, snow and a winter weather advisory moved in ahead of voters going to the polls today. But polls paint a grim picture for the Bush campaign – the former governor trails behind Sen.
Christie said his debate performance has helped turn his campaign around, drawing out voters to recent rallies and other events throughout New Hampshire.
It appeared to be do-or-die for the governors in the establishment lane – Mr Christie, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and OH governor John Kasich.
Growing doubts about Rubio seemed to portend a fight for delegates to the party’s national convention that could extend for weeks or months – to the dismay of Republican Party leaders hoping for a quick consolidation behind anyone but Cruz or Trump.