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.
I think a lot of it is made up. I think a lot of it is regular old politics that happens every cycle.
I’m very, very happy that Trump is now pro-life, but if he won’t defund PP, he is still supporting abortion indirectly. If he is incapable of understanding that tax dollars going fo non-abortion services simply free up donor dollars to promote killing babies, then what else is he inapable of understanding?
I’m very, very happy that Trump is now pro-life, but if he won’t defund PP, he is still supporting abortion indirectly. If he is incapable of understanding that tax dollars going fo non-abortion services simply free up donor dollars to promote killing babies, then what else is he inapable of understanding?
Inside the South Carolina exit polls
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4765886900001/inside-the-south-carolina-exit-polls/?#sp=show-clips
Do you think God sets an age limit? Until one’s last breathe I think there is hope of change.
That's a weird thing to say. Canines are by their nature totally honest. Almost to a fault.
Sorry about the double post
Guess you haven’t been listening to what he said.
Yep.
Same old campaign tricks.
Thought Cruz and Trump wouldn’t stoop to it, but I guess they couldn’t help themselves!LOL
I was pro-choice in the 70s, and changed, so certainly it’s possible. The difference, I think, is that I am ashamed of having been pro-choice, especially when it is brought up to me. I don’t see this sense of shame concerning Trump’s previous stand on the issue.
I know my Apollo (Jack/Chi) and Athena (Schnauzer) are.
My Joe Cool( Beagle) and Max (foxhound) are as well
>> 1999! Only Trump can’t change his mind. The basis of Christianity is that people can change that includes Trump. <<
Of course, you’re correct about Christianity. But Trump himself doesn’t believe anyone can change. He said just that about Carson. So if Trump doesn’t believe anyone can change, how can he believe he has changed?
True shame and regret are not on your sleeve but in your heart. I don’t believe that you or I can read his heart. God can and I will leave it there. BTW so glad you changed!
“Allot”
Strange word. Can’t find it in the dictionary.
He did not say that. But you will judge and that is your choice.
Whah ceep lewkin. Obbveelessly yew myssd it.
Strange word. Can't find it in the dictionary.
Might want to look into a new dictionary. It's a verb meaning to distribute or apportion.
I think the OP simply misspelled alot.
Nope, the basis of change in Christianity is a divine miracle occurs, by grace, and the proud man who thinks he’s OK breaks down in humble recognition of his sinfulness, and appeals to God for forgiveness of his many, many sins, which forgiveness God gladly gives to the humble. But God resists the proud.
Peace,
SR
Well, there's an unfortunate omen.
Really, though. I hope you're right. I hope he just saw the light, late in life, and is truly committed to conservative principles.
I judge people by their deeds (terrible of me, I know) and Trump's deeds throughout his life are straight up liberal.
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