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Poll: Kasich, Cruz voters prefer Trump as second choice
Nearly half of the supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich would vote for Donald Trump, not Ted Cruz, as their second choice, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday. And more than half of Cruz’s backers suggested they would do the same with their man out of the race.
Asked whom they would like to win the GOP nomination, 43 percent of the 652 Republicans surveyed said they wanted Trump to emerge as the party’s choice in Cleveland, followed by 29 percent for Cruz and just 16 percent for Kasich, with 9 percent undecided.
Read More >>Trump and Cruz Split States, Setting Up Showdown in Wisconsin
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz split victories in Republican presidential contests in Arizona and Utah on Tuesday, setting up a showdown in Wisconsin to determine whether the billionaire is on his way to the party nomination or the effort to stop him has momentum.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton won the Arizona primary and Bernie Sanders dominated the caucuses in Utah and Idaho.
Read More >>Trump, Clinton Win Big in Arizona; Cruz, Sanders Snag Utah
5 takeaways from Western Tuesday
Presidential front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each fended off their challengers in Arizona’s primaries on a “Western Tuesday” on which the terrorist attacks in Brussels forced foreign policy to the forefront of the 2016 campaign.
Bernie Sanders fought back with caucus wins in Idaho and Utah, and Ted Cruz not only captured a victory in Utah but the Beehive State’s entire delegate haul.
Read More >>5 things to watch for on Tuesday
Tuesday marks the latest presidential battleground as challengers look to make their last gasps in the fight against front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Voters on both sides of the aisle will head to the polls in Arizona and Utah, while Democrats will also vote in Idaho, in races that will help show whether Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders have any fight left.
Read More >>Breaking down the Democratic map: Arizona, Idaho, Utah
This was supposed to be the beginning of Bernie Sanders’ comeback.
But if the Vermont senator fails to win the big prize Tuesday — Arizona, where polls show him facing a double-digit deficit — his expected string of victories in the caucus states that follow won’t make a dent in Hillary Clinton’s daunting delegate lead, or erase the impression that his campaign can’t win in states with diverse Democratic electorates.
Read More >>Sanders Leads February Fundraising Numbers
The presidential campaigns and supporting (but independent) “super PACs” reported their fundraising hauls for February over the weekend, and the runaway winner was Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Fox News has an AP reports providing in-depth information and analysis on where the candidates stand and what it might mean going forward:
The money trail: Cruz trounces Kasich, Sanders outraises Clinton in February
John Kasich, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, the final three Republican candidates running for president, began this month with drastically different ... Read More >>