Donald Trump Leading in 10 of Next 14 GOP Voting States
Donald Trump's dominance is starting to show among the handful of Republican candidates still seeking the party's 2016 presidential nomination.
On the heels of his back-to-back primary wins in South Carolina and New Hampshire, reports are Trump now leads in 10 of the next 14 states set to go to the polls over the next 14 days. Surveys also reveal the bombastic real estate mogul is ahead by as much as 35 points in Massachusetts, with comfortable leads in Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana as well.
Trump on Cruz's Heels in Texas
Even in Ted Cruz's home state, Trump trails the Texas senator by just 7 points, suggesting he could still grab a significant number of the state's all-important 172 delegates. Trump already leads Cruz in that race 61 to 50. A candidate needs 1,236 total delegates to secure the nomination.
All the GOP candidates are now focused on Super Tuesday, set for March 1, when voters in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming will all go the polls.
Even in the face of such a clearly exhaustive schedule, Trump has still found the time to gloat about his impressive showing and resounding win in South Carolina.
"We won with everything," he said. "We won with women; I love the women. We won with men. I'd rather win with women, to be honest. We won with evangelicals, like unbelievable. We won with the military. We won with everything. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated, and poorly educated."
With strong wins in both South Carolina and New Hampshire, Trump now seems well on his way to dispelling the lingering notion that he struggles with turning widespread interest in his campaign into actual votes at the ballot box.
"He has a strong personality," said Chris Shaw, 41, who admits he is still deciding between Trump and Rubio. "He seems like he could be the one that will come in and get things done. He's a new face, a new direction."
Can Trump Be Stopped?
Trump's overall status as the GOP's undisputed front-runner has caused much grief for some veteran party leaders, who still fear his fiery, anti-immigration language will come with a price for Republicans come November's general election.
If elected, Trump has vowed to quickly deport as many as 11 million immigrants and to build a massive wall along the Mexican border to keep out immigrants.
That's where both Rubio and Cruz come in. Both men now find themselves locked in a high-stakes battle to emerge as the leading alternative to Trump. They each hope to become the party's last best chance of reassuming the Oval Office once Barack Obama's second term comes to an end.