Who’s an outsider? GOP establishment fears loss of standing

In recent days, she has laid out a plan for a “clawback” of tax benefits for companies that ship jobs overseas, using the money to encourage investment in the United States. “For a start, not all, but nearly every poll has shown that Sanders versus Trump does a lot better than Clinton versus Trump”, Sanders said. Bernie Sanders, who is vying with Hillary Clinton for 130 delegates in the Democratic race.

“The scream you hear, the howl that comes from Washington D.C., is utter terror at what “We the People” are doing together”, Cruz told supporters in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, after his early win in Kansas. Among Democrats, Clinton had accumulated 1,134 delegates and Sanders 502, including superdelegates.

Trying to make a stand in Michigan, Sanders has accused Clinton of being disingenuous when she asserted that he opposed the auto bailout that rescued carmakers General Motors and Chrysler during the Great Recession. Lindsey Graham said. While Graham made sure to note that it’s “not like I prefer Ted Cruz”, he encouraged Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to “decide among themselves” whether they can be a realistic alternative to Trump.

On Saturday, only ultra-conservative Cruz scored victories against Trump – in Kansas and Maine.

“Gov. Romney has offered and is glad to help Sen”. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that is being sent to Republicans in four states voting on Tuesday – Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho and Hawaii. It is also filled with Christian conservative voters: 83 percent of those who cast ballots in the 2012 Republican presidential primary called themselves evangelicals.

A win there is particularly key to Rubio, who has fallen behind Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Texas Sen.

Trump leads the pack with 384 delegates.

But he angered many Republican colleagues when he led the call in 2013 for a stand-off in the US Congress that led to a 16-day shutdown of the federal government. Rubio had one win in Minnesota. But Cruz also stumped in the state on Friday, and the more favorable closed GOP caucus format appears to have played to Cruz’s strengths. The secretary of state’s office notes that that there are contested primaries for both Democratic and Republican candidates, and both parties are using the primary to allocate delegates for their respective nominating conventions.

Marco Rubio won 135 delegates during the week (18 percent of the week’s total), and John Kasich won 29 delegates (4 percent).

Trump’s lead has sparked a flurry of discussions among Republicans about complicated long-shot options to stop him. Rival campaigns are exploring ways to prevent Trump from getting the delegates he needs to win the nomination outright, then defeat him at the GOP convention in July. A small, but influential, group of Republicans has raised the idea of backing a yet-to-be-determined third-party candidate.

For the Republican party, the vulnerability of Trump may, in fact, be a double-edged sword.

“When we do that”, Cruz said, referring to a platform of his campaign, “we should abolish the IRS”.

Asked if he would reject the nomination if drafted, Romney said such a scenario would be “absurd” but left the door open to it, in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation.