Racial feud erupts as Republicans fight ‘unstoppable’ Trump

Democrats will award delegates in the same states as Republicans, apart from Alaska, and they are also competing in Colorado and in American Samoa. Getting the better of his fellow freshman senator would dent the Floridian’s ascendance and keep it a three-candidate contest for a few more weeks.

Please understand: I’m not an establishment Republican, and I will never support Hillary Clinton. So it’s nearly certain Trump’s main rivals – Sen. However, I still didn’t feel that great about either Cruz or Rubio. And a win in his home state of Texas would do just that.

Many states will nominate their presidential picks Tuesday, but Washingtonians will have to wait until well after Super Tuesday to get in the game.

Many in the GOP see Trump as an albatross for state- and local-level candidates come November, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly planning a general-election strategy in which vulnerable GOP senators could publicly break with Trump and even run negative ads about him to distance themselves from him.

But because delegates can be allocated proportionally in the Super Tuesday contests (provided the winner’s margin of victory is not colossal), Rubio and Cruz both want to rack up a substantial number of second-place finishes. “We cannot nominate someone who can’t win”.

Wilson has been speaking hard truths to the GOP since The Donald entered the race last June, and in an interview Monday, he dished out more: The Republican Party, he said, has to recognize that it may have lost hardcore Trump voters for good.

With some Republican operatives making plans for adapting to a Trump-led party, including some aides passing resumes to the front-runner’s team, a vocal group of Trump opponents is emerging pledging to fight until the bitter end.

Asked about the issue on Monday, Trump told NBC he had disavowed Duke and asked, “How many times do I have to continue to disavow people”.

GOP voters who oppose the bombastic billionaire have their favorites.

Moments later, Tapper asked Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) if he will also still back Trump as the nominee.

And to that, Trump responded in a press conference by repeating some of his past characterizations of Rubio as a “choker”, “lightweight” and “clown”, CNN reported. When a supporter yelled something about the size of Trump’s hands, Rubio declined to talk about it. “If you don’t vote, then Mr. Donald Trump will be president”.

Winning his home state is critical with 155 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday. Make no mistake, Kasich’s true focus is on trying to win Michigan’s March 8 primary before going on to capture Ohio’s 66 delegates a week later. Rubio is desperate to at last secure an elusive win, somewhere, anywhere. A political analyst for FiveThirtyEight.com writes: “There are six Super Tuesday states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia) where black voters made up a larger share of the electorate in 2008 than they did in Iowa, New Hampshire or Nevada this year”.

But can Rubio win Florida? That’s been his approach since a GOP debate in Texas on Thursday.

To flip the script, Rubio has adopted an all-out assault on Trump’s character and conservative bona fides, an approach he debuted in the final pre-Super Tuesday debate and built on over the weekend.