Bush swings at Trump, Rubio on national security

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has fallen behind Ted Cruz in the national GOP horserace, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Mrs Haley gained national prominence after shootings last June at a predominantly black Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina, which left nine people dead. The Civil War-era emblem of the Confederate South is long associated with slavery.

A new poll on the SC primary shows more than one third of Trump voters want to ban homosexuals and Muslims from entering the United States. Ms Haley was to endorse Senator Rubio at an event later in the day.

According to the State Newspaper, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was also considered a favourite for Mrs Haley’s endorsement.

“Disappointed” was Bush’s response to the endorsement.

“I’ve never dealt with anyone who lied so much”, Trump said about Cruz, adding he might sue him.

For the Democrats, Sanders received a whopping 60.4 percent, while Hillary Clinton got 38.0 percent. Some of the advice was conflicting. “I wanted somebody that had conviction to do the right thing”, she said.

Cruz, who graduated from Harvard Law School and previously worked as Texas’s top lawyer, dismissed Trump’s threat earlier this week to bring a defamation lawsuit over a television ad Cruz is running.

Mr Bush said he would not stop responding to Mr Trump and vowed to have a toughness of spirit. Though many polls predict Donald Trump will win SC on Saturday, Rubio’s campaign has been increasingly hopeful about a stronger than expected finish here, as the Florida senator positions himself as alternative to Trump and Texas. Sen. Bush sits in fourth in polls with several recent surveys putting him behind Ohio Gov. John Kasich in fifth. Trump now says he opposes abortion. I get a call from a reporter, ‘I here you’re pro-choice.’ ‘Who told you that?’ ‘Cruz.’ Cruz.

The U.S. Supreme Court rocketed into campaign headlines last Saturday after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

The spot then alternates between clips of Rubio defending the 2013 immigration bill he worked on with the so-called “Gang of Eight” in the Senate – which would have created a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the USA if they met certain criteria and paid a tax penalty – and Obama.

“Mr Trump, you have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life”. That’s a tack he took just hours before at a heated press conference where he attempted to goad Trump into filing the suit that he bashed as “frivolous”.

“These ads and statements made by Cruz are clearly desperate moves by a guy who is tanking in the polls – watching his campaign go up in flames finally explains Cruz’s logo”, Mr Trump said in a statement, referring to the flame icon that appears on Mr Cruz’s website and elsewhere.