Trump action figure debuts in new Cruz ad

Polls show Rubio trailing Trump and Ted Cruz in SC.

“What does he do?” asks a friend. “He pretends to be a Republican”, the boy explains, triggering a bout of raucous laughter. “I’m gonna take your house with eminent domain and park my limos there!”

The ad is both amusing and kind of creepy, especially after multiple viewings.

John Kasich continued to campaign in SC on Thursday.

Of the remaining seven candidates competing for the Republican nomination, Cruz went on to say that he is best poised to beat Trump from the right.

He says the rules were never designed “to have everybody drop out after a certain time it’s just the way it’s worked historically because people have run out of money or they don’t see a path forward”. In that sense it may be about defending his turf. The White House says he’ll make the case for less ideological, more pragmatic politics.

Bloomberg widely considered a fiscal conservative but social liberal has taken the first steps to mount an independent campaign. Trump sure fits that bill.

Trump, who leads the Republican pack in polls, held a rally at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H., on February 8. The question put to GOP voters in the state was this: “In trying to achieve their goals, do you feel each candidate’s approach would probably be too extreme, about right, or too moderate?”

In Clinton’s favor, the campaign now has a distinctly southern flavor for the next three weeks, culminating in March 1 Super Tuesday primaries or caucuses in 14 states, a lot of them in the South. Clinton will try to press a perceived advantage among minority voters, who in many of those states will be far larger percentages of the Democratic electorate than the population as a while. Ted Cruz and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in between.

Only 3 percent answered that Trump would be “too moderate”.

Cruz came in third, leading Bush by less than a percentage point. The effort failed but Jeb Bush brought it up during the last GOP debate in New Hampshire as the wrong use of taking property for a private project. That’s a pretty big gap to overcome prior to the February 20 GOP South Carolina primary.