As primaries continue this election year, candidates are stepping out, while others fight for top ranks on the leaderboards across the United States.
Less than 24 hours after last Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, two Republican candidates dropped out of the 2016 presidential election.
Gov. Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina both suspended their campaigns last Tuesday night, narrowing the still-crowded number of Republican candidates to six.
“I’ve said throughout this campaign that I will not sit down and be quiet. I’m not going to start now,” Fiorina said on her Facebook page. “While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them.”
ALL ROADS LEAD TO SOUTH CAROLINA
CNN will host back-to-back town hall meetings with GOP candidates tonight and Thursday, before Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary.
According to a CNN Poll measuring support for candidates, Donald Trumps holds a 16-point lead in the Republican primary while Hilary Clinton tops Bernie Sanders by 18 points. South Carolina’s Democratic primary will be held on March 4.
The poll showed that Trump’s lead is powered by the perception of him as the best candidate to handle the economy, immigration and ISIS. Voters also believe that Trump is most likely to win in November and will create the most change in Washington, D.C.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz fell in second in the poll at 22 percent, with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 14 percent. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is 10 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has six percent and Kasich is at four percent.
Clinton’s lead rests heavily on black and women voters, according to CNN. Clinton leads 65 percent to Sanders’ 28 percent among black voters, and 60 percent to 33 percent among women. Men are almost equally divided among the two, with 49 percent favoring Clinton.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich closed his second place finish in New Hampshire with focus on the state of South Carolina.
“Tonight, we head to South Carolina,” Kasich said in his concession speech last Tuesday. “There’s so much that’s going to happen; if you don’t have a seatbelt, go get one.”
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday has affected the topic of conversations throughout the remainder of the election, according to the Wall Street Journal.
According to Wall Street Journal, the Supreme Court is typically an issue during a presidential election, but Justice Scalia’s death dramatically intensifies the conversations, specifically on issues such as abortion, climate change and labor rights.
If Republicans are successful in blocking a vote from President Obama in the Senate, then the president-elect’s first item of business in January will be filling the seat on the bench.
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