Sanders senior adviser Tad Devine acknowledged Wednesday that Super Tuesday was the best day on the primary calendar for the former secretary of state and that Clinton has a “substantial advantage” in pledged delegates.
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Targeting Trump for deviations from GOP orthodoxy, Trump mentioned the real estate billionaire’s insistence that he would remain neutral in brokering Israeli-Palestinian peace. After Super Tuesday, Trump has 319 delegates with him, as against his rivals: Tea Party favourite Ted Cruz (226), and Marco Rubio (110) who is an establishment favourite. She also won a territory, American Samoa. Bernie Sanders won his home state of Vermont as well as Minnesota, Oklahoma and Colorado.
The roller-coaster victories coupled with lead in national polls have unnerved the Republican establishment. Then he goes into Cleveland with a plurality but not enough and then you have to do some kind of coalition where the other candidates pool their delegates, win the nomination and decide among themselves who gets it. There is one caveat. The Republican contest, said Clinton, has “turned into a kind of one-upsmanship on insulting”.
Sanders promised to take his fight all the way to the summer nominating convention. Sanders has focused in particular on the ME caucuses this Saturday, as well as the MI primary on March 8.
But it was Cruz who used his wins in Texas and Oklahoma to frame the contest as a two-man race, calling for the other candidates to drop out.
WATCH: Marco Rubio called on supporters at a Miami election night rally to help him stop Donald Trump. Cruz had been counting on more appeal in the Southern states and among evangelical Christian voters. Dr. Ben Carson follows with 10 percent supporter, trailed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 6 percent. She said she isn’t bothered by his incendiary comments and believed he could win in the fall if he’s nominated.
The retired neurosurgeon picked up only three of the 595 delegates up for grabs Tuesday. The only Republican with higher unfavorability ratings than Hillary Clinton is Donald Trump (58%).
Texas was the biggest prize on Tuesday, with 155 delegates at stake. Sanders gains at least 286. Meanwhile, in the Texas primary last night, Clinton beat Sanders among Hispanic voters by 34 points, according to exit polling.
Both candidates are looking ahead after sweeping Super Tuesday. “Make America migrate”, read the headline, a play on his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again'”.
And she already has Trump firmly in her sights.
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“She’s been there for so long”. “If she hasn’t straightened it out by now, she’s not going to straighten it out in the next four years”.
