Nikki Haley to endorse Marco Rubio

It is the first poll conducted since last Saturday’s presidential debate in which Trump mocked former president George W. Bush and was frequently booed by the audience. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Donald Trump came in ahead of the Florida Senator.

“I got the endorsement of a governor of Indian descent, who endorsed a presidential candidate of Cuban descent, and tomorrow (Thursday) we’ll be campaigning alongside an African-American Republican senator”, Rubio said of Tim Scott of SC.

Haley’s decision-making process was kept a well-guarded secret to the end as she told reporters Tuesday she was unsure whether she would make a pick. That’s up from 26% who said the same in July of 2015, when Trump entered the race.

Trump continues to threaten Cruz with a lawsuit over his citizenship and now says attack ads painting Trump as pro-abortion could be grounds for a lawsuit, too. Trump has taken issue with Cruz’s statements about Trump’s supposed support for Obamacare and taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. So there’s another possible upside: “The fact that there’s more to learn about him and, more than anybody on the Republican side, I think it’s safe to say, he’s been a real gentleman”. “You have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life”.

“He is a liar and these ads and statements made by Cruz are clearly desperate moves by a guy who is tanking in the polls – watching his campaign go up in flames finally explains Cruz’s logo”, Trump said, in a reference to the flame included in Cruz’s campaign logo.

“I think Marco says it really well when he says let’s not try to just make a point”. He floated the idea of another legal threat to Cruz regarding the Canadian-born candidate’s eligibility as president. Cruz and legal experts have said he is eligible because his mother was a United States citizen at the time of his birth.

But the debate over how to handle Trump comes just three days before the primary in SC, where Bush’s brother and father both won big victories in 2000 and 1998.

The highest candidate scores on this scale: Rubio (70 percent can see themselves supporting him), Cruz (65 percent), Carson (62 percent), Trump (56 percent), Kasich (49 percent) and Bush (46 percent).

“In many parts of society today, whether in popular culture, academia, the media or politics, there’s a tendency to falsely equate noise with results”, she said.