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Super Tuesday has finally arrived. And if the polls are anything close to right, Donald Trump is poised to clean up.
Nearly half of US Republicans are to vote for billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump, giving him a 33-point lead over his closest competitor.
Released Monday, results of a national poll by CNN/ORC International showed the reality TV star has managed to attract a 49-percent support among Republican voters.
Support for Trump — the man who pledges to “make American great again” — jumped to 51% of voters asked who they thought was the most likely candidate to solve the country’s problems.
The poll was taken Feb. 24-27 — a stretch in which the Trump train appeared to hit a few cracks in the tracks.
Trump blamed a faulty television earpiece on Monday for his failure to disavow support from a white supremacist,
Trump was asked Sunday whether he rejected support from David Duke, the former KKK Grand Dragon after Duke told his radio followers that a vote against Trump was equivalent to “treason to your heritage.”
“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. OK?” Trump said. “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”
On Monday, he told NBC’s “Today” show a bad earpiece he used during the interview meant he couldn’t “hardly hear what he was saying, but what I heard was various groups.”
“I disavowed David Duke all weekend long, on Facebook, on Twitter, and obviously, it is never enough,” the real estate billionaire added.
Trump’s opponents jumped on The Donald.
Ted Cruz responded on Twitter, telling Trump: “You’re better than this. We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent.”
Rubio went further. “We cannot be a party who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan,” Rubio told a Virginia rally. “Not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable. How are we going to grow the party if we nominate someone who doesn’t repudiate the Ku Klux Klan?”
Trump was also raked for blindly retweeting a quote by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
But there was also quieter acknowledgement that Super Tuesday — a day when 13 states hold primary votes to elect candidate delegates — might spell the end of the race for Trump’s contenders.
“There is no doubt that if Donald steam rolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable,” Cruz said Sunday on CBS.
In the same CNN poll, Hillary Clinton appeared poised to retake a lead in the Democrat race on contender Bernie Sanders, with 55% support compared to his 38%.
Agencies/Canadajournal
