Nikki Haley: Anyone but Donald Trump

The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted February 14-16 of 800 registered voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.5 percentage points) and 400 GOP primary voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 4.9 percentage points).

“He’s allowing billions of dollars to go to tyrants who hate America”, said Cruz, long a critic of Obama’s Cuba policy.

Jeb Bush has had enough of Donald Trump attacking him, saying Wednesday he’s ready to “punch him back in the nose”.

Haley’s endorsement of Rubio was a blow to the candidacy of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, coming two days after Bush’s brother, former President George W. Bush, met with Haley privately in the state capital, Columbia. But the intra-party onslaught is raising fresh concerns that the eventual Republican nominee will head into the general election bruised and vulnerable. “Trust me, she’s a great person”. He said when did I support that?

The attacks are flying in every direction – and growing particularly nasty between Trump and Cruz. Cruz is focusing his campaign on securing the nations border, strengthening the nations military and restoring the nations constitution.

Kasich’s finish in New Hampshire has scrambled what might have been a do-or-die contest between Bush and Rubio in SC.

“It’s everything a governor doesn’t want in a president, because we don’t want a president that’s just going to come in there and bash and us and tell us what we’re not doing right”, she said. Meanwhile, MSNBC gave Donald Trump his own (pre-recorded) event, co-hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of Morning Joe.

The Texas senator, a constitutional lawyer who has argued before the supreme court, said that the end result of a lawsuit from Trump over the ad would be “Donald Trump and any lawyer that signs his names to the pleadings being sanctioned for frivolous litigation”.

On requiring women to register for selective service: “If I am elected president we will not be drafting our daughters into combat on the front lines”. Trump’s numbers significantly dropped when those polled were asked if they could see themselves voting for Trump, falling from 65 percent in January to 56 percent in February. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley is serving in her second term as governor and earned wide praise for her leadership in the wake of the Charleston church massacre and her efforts to remove the Confederate battle flag from the State Capital grounds.

“There’s no other way to describe that – it’s a lie”. “You could raise the bar”, said Edward Scott, of Frederick, Maryland.

A Bush aide said Haley called Bush to inform him of her plan to endorse Rubio. “And they knew there were none”.

“If there was ever an award that a Republican politician should be ashamed to receive, that’s it”, Cruz said.

“It is a curious thing”. Trump leads handily with 36 percent and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is in second with 17 percent.

Rubio hit Cruz for “disturbing” behavior on the campaign trail, saying that his Senate colleague has mischaracterized his record.

Meanwhile, Bush’s family is joining in on the action. “Strength is not empty rhetoric”.