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Cruz forces Rubio to defend turf
Ted Cruz is threatening to make one of the biggest gambles of the 2016 season: diving into Florida to knock off Marco Rubio.
Cruz has little chance of winning the March 15 Florida primary, but he’s showing signs he might compete by opening field offices and sending surrogates to stump in the state while his super PAC prepares to strafe Marco Rubio with a seven-figure ad buy.
Read More >>Poll: Trump leads GOP race nationally but with weaker hold on the party
Donald Trump continues to lead his rivals nationally in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. But his hold on the GOP electorate has weakened since the primary season began, and the party is now deeply divided over his candidacy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Trump maintains the support of 34 percent of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, compared with 25 percent for Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, 18 percent for Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and 13 percent for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Read More >>Mitt Romney cuts get-out-the-vote robocalls for Marco Rubio
Mitt Romney recorded robocalls for Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign that are going out in all four states voting on Tuesday, CNN has confirmed.
It’s part of an escalating effort by Romney to block Donald Trump from securing the Republican presidential nomination.
Read More >>What to watch on Super Tuesday 2
The two presidential front-runners are both eyeing Super Tuesday 2 as a chance to build on their momentum and pad their leads as they look to put the races away by the end of the month.
Hillary Clinton will try to set the tone for the entire Great Lakes region by holding off Bernie Sanders in Michigan, and she is expected to claim another Southern victory in Mississippi.
Read More >>Contested Republican Convention More Likely Than Ever
With four candidates remaining, the odds of a contested Republican convention in Cleveland where no candidate has a majority of delegates are higher than ever, according to Josh Kraushaar at National Journal:
The Odds of a Contested Convention Have Never Been Higher
Donald Trump’s not-so-magic number in the Republican primaries is 34 percent. That’s the average share of the vote Trump has received in the first 19 contests. He won one-third of the vote in the four early races, 34 percent on ... Read More >>
Why Trump’s Delegate Lead Could Be Narrower Than You Think
After five Republican contests over the weekend, Donald Trump has just an 87-delegate lead over Ted Cruz, 392-305. And as one plugged-in GOP rules expert tells us, that lead is probably narrower than that. Why? Well, 112 delegates (representing 9% out of 1,237 needed for the nomination) are unbound because there is NO statewide presidential vote — like in Colorado. This all underscores, once again, how important the winner-take-all states of Florida and Ohio on March 15 are to Trump’s path to 1,237. They aren’t luxuries, they’re necessities. Here’s the delegate math.
Read More >>Cruz spoils Trump’s Super Saturday
Ted Cruz denied Donald Trump the big wins he’s used to, siphoning support from Marco Rubio on Saturday to emerge as the Republican best placed to face off against the GOP front-runner.
Cruz delivered two definitive upset victories in Kansas and Maine and held the Manhattan billionaire to narrow wins in Louisiana and Kentucky — shrinking the delegate gap between them and leaving his lower-polling rivals in the dust.
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