White supremacist leader at center of new Trump furor

A new CNN/ORC poll of voters nationwide confirms what we already knew: A day ahead of Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand head and shoulders above the rest of their respective competitors. And for everyone in between, they’ve got to grab some wins.

The chance of that rests on whether voters have reached the same point of no return as the candidates and have suddenly decided against nominating the celebrity who has won three of the party’s four contests so far.

The former secretary of state’s roughly 2-to-1 win over Sanders in SC translated into a 39-14 edge in delegates. Bernie Sanders, and is beating him by about 20 points among Democrat voters. “It really undermines our fabric as a nation. He’s doing the same thing to voters in America”, Rubio said as he swung throughout the State including a well-attended rally in Virginia.

“And you know what they say about men with small hands?” the Florida senator added to hoots and hollers.

But Trump is clearly in the driver’s seat.

The latest shake up in the Republican race comes as attention shifts to the South, with about a half dozen states in the region holding contests on Tuesday. Marco Rubio with 16, who barely leads Ted Cruz with 15 percent.

And should he win more than one state, it may pressure Cruz, Ohio’s John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to consider quitting the race.

Trump is expected to perform well in the Republican primary contest in Alabama on Super Tuesday. But Rubio and Cruz have been relentless in slamming Trump’s business record, his character and even his physical attributes – urging his supporters to reconsider.

The GOP establishment’s moves to unite behind Rubio have hurt Cruz’s ability to appear viable on a national level, despite his still-healthy war chest.

Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric during the campaign, accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” and criminals across the border and urging a ban on Muslims entering the country, would have been the undoing of a normal candidate.

Trump was asked Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he rejected support for his presidential campaign from the former KKK Grand Dragon and other white supremacists after Duke. “Ridiculous”, he told NBC.

After a last-minute blitz of campaign rallies and political advertising, Virginians are set to head to the polls Tuesday to help pick the Republican and Democratic nominees for president. “They’re like this.” Rubio then bent his fingers at the knuckles. Super Tuesday states include Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia.

His opponents are desperate to limit Tuesday’s damage lest it trigger a less tangible, more virtual reality: a sense that he’s unstoppable, prompting a mass-stampede of people following the governors of New Jersey and ME, and now a first senator, who’ve just hopped aboard the Trump Express.

“The candidate that’s gonna win this is gonna get that by getting 1,237 delegates”.

Support for the candidates is firming up too with 68 percent of Republicans saying they will definitely support their current chosen candidate, with 32 percent saying they might change their mind.