Clinton Maintains National Lead Over Sanders

Two new polls show opposing statistics about Donald Trump’s chances with the Republican Party.

“We do need to get the field down to Trump, Cruz and somebody”, said Henry Barbour, a Republican National Committee member from Mississippi. These polls show Trump between 33 and 36 percent, averaging 34.5 percent.

The week prior, the Republican presidential candidate also said that he would “go a lot further than waterboarding” when interrogating terrorism suspects. Marco Rubio is next at 22 percent, then Texas Sen.

Kasich finished second to Donald Trump in last week’s New Hampshire primary. You have a Reuters poll that I think has Trump up by 25 points.

Bush, running fourth in SC and behind Rubio, questioned Rubio’s level of experience after Rubio said Bush did not have foreign policy experience.

TRUMP: With the real estate mogul up big in SC, the Washington Post writes that some Republicans are getting very nervous.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe“, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, along with panelists Mike Barnicle and Mark Halperin speculated on what could happen after Saturday’s South Carolina Republican Primary for either former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) or Sen. In interviews conducted before the debate, 40% backed Trump, compared with 31% who said they supported him after the raucous matchup between the remaining candidates in the field.

“It’s not yet clear whether the NBC/WSJ poll was an outlier, or if Trump’s support has waned after the most recent GOP debate“, Politico’s Nick Gass wrote.

A new Public Policy Polling poll out on Tuesday illustrates that the Republican frontrunner is almost as dominant in SC as he was in New Hampshire, a state he won with more than twice the support of his nearest competitor. “Like a freight train barreling through signals with his horn on full blast, Trump heads down the track towards a possible nomination”, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

More than half of Republican voters say they may still change their minds about who to support, but two thirds of Trump voters say their minds are made up.

Noting that the next president could name up to four U.S. Supreme Court justices, the coalition recalled that Trump has said his sister, federal Court of Appeals Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, would make a credible nominee.

When it comes to social issues like abortion, gay marriage and Church-state topics, Clinton holds a 44% to 38% trust advantage over Trump.

“Every single poll that has come out over a long time has me up 15 to 20 points nationally”.

Marco Rubio says he’s planning to release his tax returns “any day” – or even “momentarily”.