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BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (CNN) — After weeks of savaging Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is firmly setting his sights on another GOP rival. In his furthest-reaching attack yet, Trump on Saturday accused Florida Sen. Marco Rubio of stealing from the Florida Republican Party and suggested Rubio should have been “indicted” for using a state party American Express card for personal expenses. “Rubio stole from the Republican Party,” Trump said of Rubio, with whom he has recently engaged in a public war of words. “But you know what happened? They said, ‘You stole from the party.’ He says, ‘No,...

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said after Thursday's GOP presidential debate that both he and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida are better choices for the White House than Republican front-runner Donald Trump. "Listen, Marco is not my enemy - Marco and I are friends," Mr. Cruz said on CNN after the debate. "Marco and I would both make a much better candidate and a much better president than would Donald."

5 Days to the Georgia presidential primary, Trump pulls away from the GOP Field; Clinton Buries Sanders...Donald Trump consolidates his gains from Nevada, South Carolina and New Hampshire, and marches through Georgia like Sherman's Army, according to SurveyUSA... Trump 45%, Marco Rubio 19%, Ted Cruz 16%, others further back... Trump beats Cruz 2:1, and including members of the Tea Party, where Trump beats Cruz 5:2. ... Trump 50%, Clinton 41% --- a 9-point Republican advantage. Trump 49%, Sanders 41% --- an 8-point Republican advantage.

Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders (50%-33%), and Donald Trump leads the Republican field (Trump 38%, Cruz 15%, Rubio 13%), according to The Roanoke College Poll. The Roanoke College Poll interviewed 466 likely Republican voters and 415 likely Democratic voters in Virginia between February 16 and February 24 and has a margin of error of +4.5 percent for the Republican race and + 4.8 for the Democratic contest. Republicans - Angry electorate favors Trump more than 2-1 over Cruz and Rubio Donald Trump (38%) holds a commanding lead over his rivals Ted Cruz (15%) and Marco Rubio (13%), with John Kasich...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A MetroNews West Virginia Poll shows Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders with significant leads among likely presidential primary voters in the state. The survey by REPASS Research has Trump with 40 percent compared with 20 percent for his nearest rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz. On the Democrat side, Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by nearly two-to-one, 57 percent to 29 percent. You can read the complete poll here. The survey was conducted between February 11-16, before the South Carolina Republican primary and the Nevada Democratic caucus. Trump won the South Carolina primary while Clinton was victorious...

Businessman Donald Trump appears to be as popular among Republicans in New Jersey as he is in other parts of the country, as a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released Tuesday indicates he is by far the preferred candidate of GOP voters in the Garden State. According to the poll, some 38 percent of New Jersey Republicans said they would choose Trump if they had to cast their primary vote today. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is a distant second, garnering just 11 percent of the vote. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) trails Rubio narrowly, with 10 percent support.

With the so-called "SEC primary" quickly approaching, Donald Trump has a 17-point lead over his closest rival in Alabama, according to a new poll. Master Image, a Birmingham-based Republican consulting firm, released a poll Wednesday showing Trump with 36 percent, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 19 percent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 12 percent, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 8 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 7 percent. Seventeen percent of those polled are still undecided. On Tuesday, a slew of states will go to the polls, including in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia. Trump is...

A poll of 745 early and likely voters, conducted by Opinion Savvy, in the March 1 Georgia GOP presidential primary shows Donald Trump with a 12 point lead just a week prior to primary date. Marco Rubio leads Ted Cruz by a slim margin in the fight for second place. In the Democratic contest, also to be held March 1, Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead of 28 points over Bernie Sanders. The poll surveyed 491 early and likely Democratic voters

Unlike more moderate New Hampshire, Ted Cruz needed to do more than merely finish well in South Carolina - he needed to win. The Cruz campaign pulled out all the stops in a manic effort to secure victory. Instead, it appears he will finish a distant second or third to Donald Trump. It is a finish that has his donors reconsidering the longer term viability of a campaign that is now for the first time in weeks, said to be spending far more dollars than it is taking in. And where Marco Rubio now appears poised to receive an influx...

Donald Trump's rivals are running out of time to stop him. After Saturday's dominant performance in South Carolina, a close look at the calendar of upcoming elections suggests the New York billionaire's rivals have until mid-March to slow him down. After that, their only chance to keep Trump from representing the Republican Party in the general election may be a nasty, public fight at the GOP's national convention. The reason is delegates -- and how they're awarded in the Republican Party. While winning states generates headlines, a candidate wins the party's nomination by collecting a majority of the delegates awarded...

Since 4pm on Wednesday, over thirteen hundred participants have weighed in with their opinion on the primary races, via our exclusive online 7News poll. Here are the findings of that survey. ... WHO DO YOU INTEND TO VOTE FOR IN THE SC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY Some eleven hundred people responded in the poll with who they intend to vote for in Saturdays Republican Primary. Some eleven hundred people responded in the poll with who they intend to vote for in Saturdays Republican Primary. The final tally gives Donald Trump a large lead of more than twenty percent ahead of his closest...

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) echoed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) calls to wait for a new president to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia. In a statement Saturday night, Grassley said it's been standard practice over the last 80 years not to confirm a Supreme Court nominee during a presidential election year. "Given the huge divide in the country, and the fact that this President, above all others, has made no bones about his goal to use the courts to circumvent Congress and push through his own agenda, it only makes sense that...

The conservative group American Future Fund will begin airing a TV commercial in South Carolina that labels Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz as "weak" on national security, an especially damaging claim in the military-heavy state. The ad likens Cruz to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and President Barack Obama. According to the ad, "Ted Cruz talks tough on national security. But look at his record. Cruz voted with Bernie Sanders against defense spending," and the ad also claims "Cruz sided with Obama to weaken our ability to track terrorists." The Anti-Cruz group - run by GOP bigwig Nick Ryan, is spending...

"He said he's sorry that this happened and he wants to sit down and talk," Carson said in an interview with The Washington Post. "He wants to discuss the whole thing and clear the air." "To be determined," Carson said when asked where they may meet. "Doesn't matter." The Carson campaign has been critical of Cruz after his campaign spread false rumors during the Iowa caucus, and sent voicemails to Iowa precinct captains suggestings that Carson was dropping out of the race.

Survey produced by Prof. Joshua J. Dyck, Ph.D. Field Dates: 2/4/16-2/6/16 N=1413 New Hampshire Registered Voters (RVs) N= 516 Republican Primary Likely Voters (LVs); N= 428 Democratic Primary Likely Voters Adjusted Margin of Error: +/-2.97% for all RVs; +/-4.82% for Rep LVs; +/-5.38% for Dem LVs Margins of error have been adjust ed to include for design effects resulting from weighting and survey design features -snip- REPUBLICAN PRIMARY (N=516 LVs)Q8 If the NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY was being held today would you vote for [RANDOMIZE ORDER: candidate list below]? Q8a Do you lean more towards...[order as Q8]? [if DK/NA/REF]...

INDEPENDENCE - This was something new for Naomi Probert: Stand in front of a crowd of 500 people and tell them why she feels someone should be elected president of the United States. The married mother of adopted Haitian children ages 5 and 6 found one candidate spoke to her heart: Dr. Ben Carson. She and her family met Carson, personally, a day earlier in Manchester. The experience only reinforced her support for him. So much so, she was willing to speak on his behalf at her Republican precinct caucus Monday night at Independence High School. In fact, her kids...

Greta Van Susteren went off on the Cruz Campaign tonight over their handling of the Ben Carson Caucus scandal. On Monday Dr. Ben Carson accused the Cruz camp of foul play in the Iowa Caucuses.Carson said the Cruz camp told voters Carson was dropping out and to support Ted Cruz.Carson was right to be outraged... The Cruz camp sent out messages and made calls to all precinct captains that Dr. Carson was dropping from the race.On Thursday Greta Van Susteren reacted to the Cruz campaign scandal. Greta Van Susteren: Horrible!... This is appalling! For some reason to me, what happened...

Dr. Ben Carson, once a presidential contender leading the GOP polls, found himself swatting away rumors that he planned to drop out of the race in the heat of the Iowa caucuses Monday night.The rumor was sourced to a single CNN report about Carson's plans to travel home to Florida after the Iowa caucuses - rather than directly to New Hampshire, as is typical - and was spread by Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) campaign. It sparked a full-blown scandal as Carson claimed the Cruz camp's tactics hurt his performance in the caucuses and second-place finisher Donald Trump took up Carson's...

Rich Lowry of National Review magazine is seriously taken to task by four Fox women commentators Smith, Faulkner, Colby, Camerota, and Tantaros about his undeniable bias against Trump, his lack of logic, and called out in a lie... To the three minute video link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei6f5F4zIvo

The first in a series of daily tracking polls leading up to the New Hampshire primary finds Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders holding huge leads among Granite State voters. The poll, released Monday by UMass Lowell, found Trump leading the Republican race by 26 percentage points. Sanders leads among Democrats by 31 percentage points. The poll results are consistent with other recent surveys that have found Sanders and Trump in the lead, although the UMass Lowell poll has both Trump and Sanders leading by larger margins than other recent polls. New Hampshire will hold the nation's first primary next Tuesday,...