SC primary: Three reasons why Donald Trump needs to win big

The events are the third nominating contests in the race for the GOP and Democratic nominations for the White House. Gov. John Kasich and Ben Carson were tied with 9 percent.

Weaver also reportedly said that with Bush out of the race, Kasich’s campaign will get a boost from being the last governor in the race for the Republican nomination. “He kept us safe”, said Jeb Bush. Does that hold up in SC?

He’s not the Republican Party’s most well-liked candidate, nor the one who is considered the most compassionate or likable. Voting ends at 7 p.m.

The former Florida governor entered the 2016 presidential race as an early favorite.

After his fourth place showing in the New Hampshire and a distance sixth place in the Iowa caucuses, the Bush team was desperate to prove to donors and supporters that he was still a competitive candidate. “It’s time to move on, and I think that he’s capable of taking us through this”. And his take on the prospects of a President Donald Trump? Perhaps worse for Bush, just 40 percent think he could win a general election.

Another big caucus day and primary night on Saturday, when Democrats go to their caucus sites in Nevada, and Republicans go to the polls in SC. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., he speaks during a rally Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, in Reno, Nev. The public mood has upended the usual political order, leaving more traditional candidates scrambling to find their footing.

“It’s ironic that Trump is from NY and people in the South are supportive”, said Rob Carres, a 45-year-old investment adviser from Alphacetta, Georgia, who was campaigning for Trump in SC.

That was Donald Trump in Myrtle Beach today, taking a softer line after his flare-up with Pope Francis.

“And we can’t blow the movement”. “We feel like we’ve got the wind at our back now”.

Cruz said, “We are one justice away from the Supreme Court overruling Heller and ruling that not a single one of us here has a right to keep and bear arms and that the government can ban firearms and we have no Second Amendment right to challenge it”.

“If you haven’t been able to show you have a constituency among Iowa caucus goers or New Hampshire voters or SC, then limping it out through Super Tuesday isn’t going to do you a lot of good”, Huffmon explained. To win the nomination, a candidate will need 1,237, or 50 percent plus 1, delegates. Only 84% of Trump voters said that they were still planning on voting for him, with 4% saying they now planned to vote for Ted Cruz and 4% saying they now meant to vote for Marco Rubio.

Cruz’s campaign hinges on his ability to run a smart campaign that gets his supporters to the polls.

Of course, Kasich, Bush and Rubio are all unlikely to drop out before March 15, when OH and Florida go to the polls – the home states of all three.

Rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are expected to fight it out for second place in SC.

Earlier this week, former President George W. Bush campaigned for his brother, Jeb, in North Charleston. If Clinton loses to Sanders Saturday, it could call into question Clinton’s ability to connect with voters in the same way Sanders has.

Quale then compared Clinton and her late push in Nevada to one of the biggest marketing failures in history. The state also has many military families and, like Nevada, many retirees. Clinton is hoping minorities and unions in Las Vegas give her the edge over Sanders, while the Vermont democratic socialist aims to drive up turnout in the state’s more lightly populated northern region to claim victory.

Both campaigns have invested heavily in caucus training geared toward Spanish speakers, including the Clinton campaign’s training, “Caucus Conmigo”.

The Republican and Democratic primaries are on separate days.

SC could return the GOP field to the three-man race many thought had emerged from Iowa.