Tomorrow, five ‘winner-take-all’ primaries will take place. Ohio, Illinois, Florida, Missouri, and North Carolina will add their voices to the 2016 campaign.

Clinton and Sanders are very close in the polls with the exception of North Carolina and Florida where Clinton is expected to win easily.

Republicans continue to struggle with Donald Trump. Their refusal to unite behind the front runner, as in previous elections, has created a huge divide within the GOP.

Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich are conspiring to prevent Trump from winning all five states. Kasich has a slight lead today over Trump in Ohio, where he is the state’s governor. Trump leads in all of the other four, including Florida where Rubio is the junior Senator.

Over the weekend, Kasich’s numbers have risen in Ohio, and Rubio’s have diminished in Florida.

If the polls are accurate, Trump’s delegate lead will grow and eliminate Rubio and Kasich’s hopes for any resurgence in their campaigns. Cruz will be ‘hanging on’ by his fingertips, as national polls continue to show that Republican voters favor Trump over the radical senator from Texas. Trump’s poll numbers reveal that he is nearly 15 points ahead of Cruz.

In Florida, a very desperate Marco Rubio told a crowd of supporters that they ‘would not allow a man to win the nomination, who would be crushed in November.’ This is misleading and a demonstration from a man in total denial. If the nomination is not awarded to Trump, nearly 40 percent of GOP voters will abstain from going to the polls. It is highly doubtful than any Republican candidate can unite the party and win in November.

What began eight months ago is likely unstoppable. Ignorance by the Republican establishment formed tactics to derail the Trump campaign as early as last August.

Instead of offering positive ideas to the Republican electorate regarding domestic issues, they joined the real estate mogul in instituting ‘attack mode.’ Trump was simply better at this strategy than his opponents.

If the polls are somewhere close to what will happen tomorrow, Republican leadership will be crushed. They will have received a crushing, and likely terminal blow to their efforts in support of Marco Rubio.

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By James Turnage

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