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.
Road to Damascus conversions are certainly possible but that doesn’t mean we elect the converted to the office of President.
I’m an English language purist of sorts. I can’t stand the steady decline and degradation of our native tongue.
What I hate even more, is that others scold me for even caring.
You are not the judge God is. You may want to think about your own haughtiness.
Obama did not diminish Hope nor the potential of positive Change. I still breath air and drink water and enjoy all the wonders God created. Obama didn’t have the power to taint any of that.
I would serious worry about the foibles of all candidates but then Cruzers simply refuse to see any faults he has. No man is perfect.
Never said I was judge. Where did you get that from? Just reciting the Gospel, what all who believe in Jesus hold to by faith, what Jesus and the apostles taught. If the message convicts, that’s not my doing at all. I am nothing, just a minimum wage message boy. Please don’t shoot the messenger.
Peace,
SR
I now see that he said it on a David Brody show in the last few days. Somehow I missed any mention of it here. Hopefully he won’t be talked out of it again. He seems to easily swayed on this point.
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