Trump, Clinton Poised to Dominate Super Tuesday

Cruz should be able to win his home state of Texas, though polling is all over the map in the Lone Star State.

“We can not be a party that nominates someone who refused to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan”, Rubio told a crowd of voters in Purcellville, Virginia, MSNBC reported.

Other Republicans, however, are questioning whether they will ever support Trump if he becomes the nominee. And they’re using the Sunday talk show circuit to warn that nominating Trump would be catastrophic for the party in November and beyond. Just under half of those who responded would not commit to backing him, foreshadowing a potentially extraordinary break this fall.

The candidate with perhaps the most at stake Tuesday is Cruz, the victor of the Iowa caucuses and the only candidate to beat Trump in a presidential contest. Dan Coats said in a statement to AP.

The billionaire is, however, struggling to shake off a controversy after he failed to disavow former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, called that “disqualifying”.

Campaigning in Virginia, Florida Sen.

He hasn’t always claimed ignorance on Duke’s history.

Congresswoman Barbara Comstock also came out to support Rubio.

The first day of multiple-state voting looms large in a wild presidential race after early states trimmed the field and the brash billionaire and his army of outsider voters are positioned to send panic through the Republican establishment by tightening his grip on the party’s nomination.

Mr Trump also had a backlash for recently retweeting a quote from Benito Mussolini, the 20th-century fascist dictator of Italy, which reads: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep”.

“Are you from Mexico?” He ordered several people to be removed, then cast himself as a unifying political force.

“The voters deserve to know”, Cruz said. Clinton picked up most of South Carolina’s 53 delegates, winning 39 to Sanders’ 14.

Trump holds commanding leads across the South, with the exception of Cruz’s home state of Texas, a dynamic that puts tremendous pressure on Rubio and Cruz as they try to outlast each other.

On the Democratic side, Clinton holds a 17-point lead over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, 55 percent to 38 percent.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are poised to lead America’s two major parties in the 2016 presidential election, with a new nationwide poll released on Monday, Feb 29 finding each well ahead of their closest rivals on the eve of the “Super Tuesday” showdown.

As Trump has rolled through the early voting states, he’s received enthusiastic endorsements from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and from Alabama Sen.

TRUMP: He got the endorsement of top Senate conservative and immigration reform foe Jeff Sessions. “And we absolutely adore our relationship with her and I’m sure it’ll continue”. “I think he should have started punching sooner”.

Party leaders are particularly anxious about the ripple effect of a Trump nomination on other races.

In those states, if Trump is nearing 50 percent in the polls, Rubio has to step in and knock off at least a few points off his final tally. The question is what will happen afterwards – when Kasich and Carson eventually drop out, their supporters in subsequent primaries are likely to move to Rubio and Cruz.