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44%
Of respondents to a Google Consumer Surveys poll said Donald Trump won last night’s Republican debate, followed by Marco Rubio at 30%, Ted Cruz at 12%, John Kasich at 10% and Ben Carson at 5%.
81
Number of delegates Donald Trump has accrued in the GOP primaries — a 64-delegate lead over his nearest competition: Trump 81, Cruz 17, Rubio 17, Kasich 8, Carson 5. Trump could emerge with 100-plus delegate lead after Super Tuesday: Trump 289, Rubio 184, Cruz 154, Kasich 53, Carson 41 (assuming a Trump 35%, Rubio 28%, Cruz 23%, Kasich 8%, Carson 6% proportional split of delegates). First Read now sees only two possible outcomes for the Republican presidential race: 1) Donald Trump will be the nominee or 2) A contested convention.
If you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), mocking his former rivals in the Republican presidential race, joking that his “party has gone batshit crazy,” NBC News reports.
37%
Donald Trump’s substantial lead in Super Tuesday states in the South, followed by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz tied at 20%, according to a Bloomberg poll. In hypothetical head-to-head GOP primary match-ups, Trump beats Rubio 48% to 44% and Cruz 49% to 40%.
He’s just generally a loser as a person and a candidate. You can’t nominate a nut job and lose and expect it doesn’t have consequences.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the AP, predicting that Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination but lose the general election.
All I know, I can’t imagine Romney having the gall coming after anybody’s returns. Let’s look at his. He never gave us his tax returns. Who was the brainchild who got him to do that? Romney never gave us his tax returns. He did not — he gave us his summary, he didn’t give us our tax returns.
— Sen. Harry Reid, telling CNN that he’s stunned to see Mitt Romney demanding Donald Trump’s tax returns.
No, I’m not—no, no, no, no. No, no, no. I don’t repeat myself. I don’t repeat myself.
– Donald Trump repeating himself during the Feb. 25, 2016, Republican presidential debate in Houston.
