White House hopeful Ted CruzTed CruzGraham: GOP may have to rally around Ted Cruz Tom DeLay: Trump will “tear the Republican party apart” Cruz swings at Trump after winning two Super Tuesday states MORE came out swinging at Donald TrumpDonald TrumpGraham: GOP may have to rally around Ted Cruz Tom DeLay: Trump will “tear the Republican party apart” Cruz swings at Trump after winning two Super Tuesday states MORE after clinching two big victories on Super Tuesday.
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“Instead of building walls, we’re going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every American can live up to his or her potential”, Clinton said, in an implicit attack on Trump’s calls to build a wall on the southern border of the U.S. to prevent illegal immigration.
In addition to his home state of Vermont, Sanders had been aiming for wins in four other states on Tuesday – neighboring Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Colorado. Conservative Solutions, a super political action committee backing Rubio – and blasting Trump – has reserved $6 million of ad time for in the soon-to-vote states of Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Florida. Up until the final hours before polls closed Tuesday, Cruz was arguing that he was running “neck and neck” with Trump across the Super Tuesday states. Oklahoma and Arkansas voted, as did MA and Vermont.
Trump has jumped to a big lead in Super Tuesday delegates.
Sure, he said, Trump has been sparing – to put it nicely – on the details of what he’d actually do if he won the White House: “It’s certainly an unconventional approach to running for the presidency”, as Ahern put it. Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake.
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A new CNN/ORC poll found that both Clinton and Sanders would easily defeat Trump if the general election – set for November 8 – were held now.
Cruz, speaking to reporters before casting his ballot in Houston, did not wait for the results to roll in before signaling that he will try to nudge Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich out of the race.
On the Democratic side, Clinton cemented her win with campaign stops and TV ads in Nashville and Memphis.
Clinton was already setting her sights on Republican front runner Donald Trump Tuesday, hitting his refusal on Sunday to disavow support from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Clinton decried the GOP for “turning its back” on America’s working and middle class citizens. Clinton had Trump on her mind in her victory speech, although she never mentioned him by name.
Cruz was expected to win the Lone Star State, where some recent polls showed him leading Trump by double digits. Democrats also had a contest in American Samoa and for Democrats overseas.
Sanders, who has energized young voters with his call for a political revolution, was seeking to stay close to Clinton in the South and pick up victories in states including Minnesota and his home state of Vermont.
“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.
The state offered up 93 delegates for Democrats on Tuesday, while Republicans competed over 38 delegates there.
With 91 delegates at stake in MA, the two candidates were on track to split the spoils fairly evenly.
Berman helped Obama beat Clinton with delegate math in the 2008 race. Sanders has received at least 211. Her wins in Georgia and Virginia were the first of what her campaign hoped would be a sweep of the South, a region where large segments of the Democratic electorate are black.
Trump won in Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Georgia.
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With 32 percent of Republican precincts reporting, Trump had 152,502 votes, or 42 percent of the vote, compared with 23 percent for Texas Sen.
