Republican Presidential Race Tightens as Cruz Edges Closer to Front-runner Trump

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From left, Republican U.S. presidential candidates businessman Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
From left, Republican U.S. presidential candidates businessman Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.





The Republican nominating contest for president could be consolidating into a two-man race between businessman Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
By gobbling up the lion’s share of delegates awarded state-by-state, Trump and Cruz are eclipsing two other rivals: Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
“I am very encouraged because if we continue to unite, we are going to win this nomination,” Cruz said late Saturday.

He beat expectations by winning nominating contests in Maine and Kansas, and finishing a close second to front-runner Trump in Louisiana and Kentucky.
Trump expressed no disappointment with the results.
“I am very, very happy about it. Thank you, Louisiana, and thank you, Kentucky,” he said.
While Trump retains a lead in the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination, Cruz narrowed the gap by winning five states last week.
Squabble with Rubio
On Thursday, Trump and Republican Senator Marco Rubio squabbled endlessly at the last Republican debate, often eliciting groans and boos from the audience.
Cruz alternated between attacking Trump and attempting to stand above the fray.
“Nominating Donald would be a disaster,” Cruz said at the debate, which was televised on Fox News. “If you don’t want him as the nominee, then I ask you to stand with us as a broad coalition of people who believe in the Constitution, believe in freedom, and want to turn this country around.”
Trump acknowledged Cruz's rise late Saturday and urged Rubio to drop out of the race.
A woman marks her vote for Florida's Senator Marco Rubio during Puerto Rico's Republican primary in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 6, 2016.
A woman marks her vote for Florida's Senator Marco Rubio during Puerto Rico's Republican primary in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 6, 2016.
"I would love to take on Ted one-on-one. That would be so much fun," he said.
Rubio's campaign rejected Trump's call and pledged to continue attacking Trump's business record and conservative credentials.
If Cruz is emerging as the main alternative to Trump among Republicans, the Democratic front-runner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, continued her march toward the Democratic nomination.
Delegate race
Clinton is outpacing her lone remaining challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and increasingly gearing her remarks to a general election audience.
“Let us join hands, let us lift ourselves up, let us get going together. Let us make a difference, let us build tomorrow,” Clinton said at a recent campaign stop.
Clinton has won most primaries to date in larger, delegate-rich states. But Sanders insists the race is not over.
“We have come a very, very long way, closing the gap nationally with Secretary Clinton,” Sanders said on ABC’s This Week program.
FILE - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont listens during the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, Oct. 13, 2015. The two hold another debate Sunday in Flint, Mich.
FILE - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont listens during the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, Oct. 13, 2015. The two hold another debate Sunday in Flint, Mich.
Clinton and Sanders are set for a debate Sunday in Flint, Michigan, where the city's 100,000 residents, most of them black and many of them impoverished, have been facing a toxic water crisis that federal, state and local officials have been grappling with for months.
Upcoming contests
There also are two party nominating elections Sunday, with a Republican primary in the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico and Democratic caucuses in the northeastern state of Maine.
On Tuesday, Michigan and Mississippi are holding both Republican and Democratic presidential primary elections, while Republicans are holding a primary in Idaho and caucuses in Hawaii.
But it is the Republican contest that is generating more headlines.
Some party elders, such as 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, have pleaded with voters against backing Trump.
“Here is what I know, Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud,” Romney said last week.

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