Posted on 02/20/2016 3:21:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio continue their attacks on Ted Cruz's integrity in campaign's final hours.
Voting is under way in the South Carolina Republican primary, where frontrunner Donald Trump hopes to overcome a slide in the polls and Ted Cruz is hoping for a repeat of a performance in Iowa, where he defied polls and defeated Trump by 4 points.
Votes will be cast until 7 p.m. Saturday. At stake in the first of the Southern primaries are 50 delegates.
* Check back here for live voting results as they come in.
Nevada Democrats were also caucusing Saturday, where Hillary Clinton won a close race over rival Bernie Sanders.
Former first lady Barbara Bush spent Friday crisscrossing the state with her son Jeb, who must do well in South Carolina to remain in the race.
Bush is in position to finish third in South Carolina, according to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. Released Friday, the poll, which had an error margin of 3.6 percent, shows the race for third place tightening between Floridians Marco Rubio, the state's junior senator, at 15 percent, and Bush, its former governor, at 13 percent.
The campaigns have heated up their rhetoric in the final hours before the polls close in South Carolina.
Trump and Rubio both continued to call Cruz a liar -- Trump over a Cruz campaign ad that prompted a cease and desist letter to from Trump, who is depicted in the ad as saying in 1999 that he is "very pro choice."
Rubio claimed that Cruz's campaign altered a photo to make it appear he was gleefully shaking hands with President Obama.
At a rally Friday, Trump said Cruz "cheated like a dog."
"He holds up the Bible, and then he cheats," Trump said.
Rubio, attending the same event at the Pawley's Island country club, reminded voters of the "dirty tricks from the Cruz campaign."
"Over the last 10 days, the Cruz campaign has lied, smeared, fabricated, and even Photoshopped," Rubio communications director Alex Conant told The Boston Globe. "We fear the worst dirty tricks are yet to come. . . . The Cruz campaign will do anything to stop Marco Rubio's momentum."
Rubio finished a close third to Cruz in Iowa and is hoping a late surge in South Carolina will boost him past Cruz.
Both Nevada and South Carolina schedule Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries on different dates. Nevada Republicans will caucus on Tuesday, Feb. 23, and South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary is Saturday, Feb. 27.
Will Cruz do better than expected again?
Looks like Rubio is the surprise sleazebag of this primary season.
Depicted?
Is that what they call caught on video, in his own words, in perfect context, these days?
I’m hearing first or a close second place finish for him.
He’s got the ground game, so it’s very possible.
1999! Only Trump can’t change his mind. The basis of Christianity is that people can change that includes Trump.
>>Will Cruz do better than expected again?<<
Sure hope so. I do know, I don’t put allot of trust in the polls. Will see soon. lol
Knock on wood, it’s looking that way with DT and MR’s durty trix narrativeand relative camp silence! Come on SC, do the right thing!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Go Trump!
All the sleazy tactics have turned this one into a nail biter. They often succeed but we will have a pretty good idea in just an hour or two.
How much do your core convictions change after the age of 50?
I guess it's possible.
I hope so.
A lot of people are going to be very embarrassed if it's not.
where frontrunner Donald Trump hopes to overcome a slide in the pollsIOW, this isn't from a news source.
I’m a little bit older but I can’t imagine my opinion of something as big as abortion would change after 50.
How did Cruz “cheat?”
GREAT POINT!!!!!!!!!!!
Fox news commentators are saying Cruz is doing better than expected according to exit polls.
He’s up on charges over it, you know.
Or maybe not.
I could have made that up.
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