Still, Trump is poised for a sweep Tuesday night and his campaign hopes it’s a big enough margin that the remaining Republicans won’t have much of a path forward.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Signature Flight Hangar at Port-Columbus International Airport, on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. But because all of these states will deliver their delegates proportionally, close contests could keep Sanders from falling too far behind Clinton.
Ms Clinton tops Mr Trump at 52 per cent to 44 per cent among registered voters, tilting in Ms Clinton’s favour since January.
Today, the day when the greatest number of states hold primary elections has been dubbed the “SEC Primary” because numerous states that vote are represented in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), a US college athletic conference.
Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake-nearly half the 1,237 delegates needed to gain the nomination at the party’s convention, also in July, in Cleveland.
But while his campaign has confounded many Republican leaders, the NY billionaire cites his high poll numbers as proof he is not dividing the party but expanding its ranks. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Clinton also tops Trump in the poll with 52 percent to his 44 percent. Trump’s wins in the South were a blow to Cruz, who once saw the region as his opportunity to stake a claim to the nomination.
“There is no doubt that any candidate who can not win his home state has real problems”, Cruz told reporters outside the West Gray Community Center, a polling location near Cruz’s residence in Houston.
Large majorities of Republican primary voters across nine states have negative feelings toward the federal government, but whether they’re more dissatisfied or angry varies by state.
The Florida senator’s long-shot White House hopes now rest with his home state, which votes on March 15.
Even before the first results started flowing in, Trump was calling on Rubio to give up if he didn’t win anywhere on Tuesday. Marco Rubio, and OH, the home state of Gov. John Kasich. “He hasn’t won anything”. Instead, he’s appeared to only grow stronger, winning states and drawing broad support for some of his most controversial proposals.
Trump was leading in almost all the states that will hold primary contests or caucuses, a lot of them in the American South. The lone exception appeared to be Texas, where U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who represents that state, enjoyed a narrow lead and was in desperate need of a victory.
If she were to attract the same proportion of black voters in Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas, she could take more than 60 percent of the overall vote. Trump said he had not understood the interviewer who first raised the question, and he did later repudiate Duke.
“We’re not angry people, but we’re angry at the way this country’s being run”.
Asked about the issue on Monday, Trump told NBC he had disavowed Duke and asked, “How many times do I have to continue to disavow people”.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Early exit polls underscored Sanders’ continued weaknesses with black voters, a core part of the Democratic constituency. In a sign of her growing confidence, the former secretary of state has increasingly turned her attention to Trump in recent days, casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults and bullying that have consumed the Republican race.
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“What we can’t let happen is the scapegoating, the flaming, the finger pointing that is going on the Republican side”, she told voters gathered in Springfield, Massachusetts. “It really undermines our fabric as a nation”.
