Campaign donors having second thoughts about Marco Rubio

For instance, the gap between him and Marco Rubio has come down from a 20 point to just eight points now.

“On top of it all, Rubio has been a total no-show in the US Senate, with the worst voting record of all”, the ad said. The latest polls from MI show Trump and Clinton have double-digit leads over their competitors.

The Cruz campaign announced Bryant’s support in a news release Monday.

“I was sitting in a senior staff meeting planning out next week’s schedule when I saw this report suddenly air and I came racing across town to correct it”, he added.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican leaders in Washington have spent years casting tea party allies and hardliners in Congress as merely a restive minority, a fringe element to be tolerated. And I can tell you this: “We’re going to work for every vote”.

Trump is hoping to expand his lead while Hillary Clinton will try to block Bernie Sanders from winning his first big state Tuesday when MI and MS go to the polls.

Donald Trump on the campaign trail in North Carolina this week.

Most of the senator’s advisers agree he does not have a path to the nomination and some are advising him to get out ahead of the March 15 primary. “If voters do change their minds – especially supporters of Cruz and Rubio, who appear to have little chance of being competitive in the state – Kasich is likely to be the beneficiary”.

“Unlike with Trump, Clinton’s critics have focused on one trait in particular, her perceived untrustworthiness”, said political science professor Dan Cassino.

MS will award 40 Republican and 41 Democratic delegates on Tuesday, but MI awards 59 Republican and 147 Democratic delegates the same day.

Cruz’s win in Kansas was his fifth of the nominating race. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., appers at a campaign rally in Topeka, Kan., Friday, March 4, 2016.

The responses for Trump were overall much harsher, with the most popular replies being “arrogant”, “crazy”, “idiot”, “scary”, and “obnoxious”.

Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz campaigned in MS on Monday, and John Kasich was in the state last week.

Rubio trails both Trump and Cruz substantially in the quest for the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the nomination. Cruz won 64 delegates on Saturday, while Trump took 49.

The result is a Catch-22 for Rubio, who needs the money to win the March 15 primary in his home state of Florida, while donors wait out those results for signs of his long-term viability. “There are clearly states in which some of my opponents do better than us because it fits the profile they’ve targeted”.

Though still in the lead, the popularity gap between him and his other rivals have narrowed down considerably.

Republican John Kasich has campaigned in MS twice in the past month.

On Sunday, he won the lightly contested primary in Puerto Rico, only his second victory.