That also goes for Oklahoma, which is another victory-state for him. I watched, tweeted and jotted down some of the best and worst of the night that was.
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With the help of black voters, she won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Including superdelegates, Clinton had at least 1,005 delegates.
However, Sanders tempered the jubilation by contextualizing election results in other states, where his opponent Hillary Clinton is expected to win. The only question is how and when she and her team negotiate a peace with Sanders.
Dena Cottle of Virginia Beach, left, Gary C. Byler, center, and Maria Williams, 74, celebrate as GOP Donald Trump is announced as the winter in Virginia at Pembroke Pizza in Virginia Beach, Va., on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Expect lots more of that.
And given the fact that Cruz, who is widely disliked among his peers in Washington, and Trump have won all but one of the contests so far, it is clear the establishment is even farther away from providing a credible challenger for the nomination.
Republican Trump was projected to win Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia, and Democrat Clinton to gain Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Clinton, in turn, criticized what she called the angry, divisive rhetoric from the Republican front-runner, though she did not name him.
Trump won seven of the 11 states in which Republicans voted. “I will get in my pickup truck and drive around this country if I have to before I allow the party of Lincoln and Reagan to fall into the hands of a con man”, Rubio said, referring to Trump.
Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, scored two primary wins on Super Tuesday – in his home state and in Oklahoma.
A quarter of Americans get their say in the presidential nominating races on Super Tuesday, sounding off with a giant megaphone. Rubio won at least 25 delegates and John Kasich has won at least 13. He said Trump supporters feel like nothing has been accomplished since the GOP took over the House of Representatives in 2010 and took majority control of the Senate in 2014.
With a Southern sweep – or even close to one – Clinton would make a Sanders nomination even more unlikely.
“After tonight, we have seen that our campaign is the only campaign that has beaten, that can beat and that will beat Donald Trump”, he said. Hard to argue with that. Sanders may have lost on Tuesday night but the re-claiming of the word “liberal” for Democrats is a testament to his influence on this race.
For Republicans, 595 delegates were at stake, almost half of the 1,237 needed for the nomination. That means an open convention, a fantasy that most political junkies thought would never come to pass, might, well, come to pass.
Rubio, along with Texas Sen. Yes, that’s an obvious point. Rubio, who won Minnesota on Tuesday, is still betting his more aggressive approach to Trump will pay off. You can try to spin that if you are for Rubio but the numbers are the numbers.
Yet Cruz seized on Rubio’s struggles, calling on the GOP to unify behind his candidacy, “the only campaign that has beaten, that can beat and that will beat Donald Trump”. Alabama is rich in all three, so if Cruz was going to win anywhere, it would be here. The Texas senator notched up wins both in the Lone Star State, in neighboring Oklahoma and far-flung Alaska. “We are going to send a message that the party of Lincoln and Reagan and the presidency of the United States will never be held by a con artist”.
Democratic voters across each of the nine primary states had very different priorities as they chose between Clinton and Sanders.
“We are so excited about what lies ahead for our campaign”, Rubio said at his Tuesday night rally in Miami, his hometown.
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Sanders also is vowing to stay in the campaign – and with his lucrative army of small donors and grass-roots appeal, he has no reason to leave.
