Sen. Ted Cruz banked a Texas-sized win in his home state and was on track to win more votes than Trump and Sen. When counting superdelegates supporting Clinton, she is not even halfway to the number she needs to secure the nomination. Marco Rubio combined in the Lone Star State. Baker, who has led MA as a moderate Republican, said on Tuesday that he did not vote for Trump, but declined to identify who he supported.
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Everyone had a little something to smile about on Super Tuesday. That’s a rock and a hard place choice for establishment Republicans who fear Trump and hate Cruz.
In one night, the former Secretary of State almost quadrupled her delegate tally, to 544, while her opponent trailed with 349-and those totals don’t include the party’s “superdelegates”, the overwhelming majority of whom are backing Clinton. But Kasich, the OH governor, has suggested he plans to stay in until at least his state’s primary on March 15.
For Rubio, Super Tuesday turned into a bitter disappointment. In an interview Tuesday with CBS’s Charlie Rose, Graham said: “Ted Cruz is not my favorite by any means, but… we may be in a position where we have to rally around Ted Cruz as the only way to stop Donald Trump”.
But Tapper reminded Rubio that Trump continued to dominate the primary with several big wins on Super Tuesday.
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Crucially, the results translated into a huge delegate haul for Clinton, pulling her a tiny bit closer to the 2,383 delegates needed to win the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Cruz had indeed hoped to pick up Southern states with high numbers of evangelical voters, but that plan began falling apart when he was bested by Trump in SC.
Trump could take a major step forward in upcoming winner-take-all elections in the middle of the month, however, and all of his rivals are doing considerably worse than the NY real estate mogul. Sanders has 418 delegates so far in the race, CNN reported.
Coming within striking distance of becoming the Republican nominee, Trump, who has faced intense attack from other contenders for his radical views, notched up victories in seven states – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. The Vermont senator did carry his home state decisively, and told the crowd at a raucous victory party that he was “so proud to bring Vermont values all across this country”.
Tonight, it failed him as Alabama and Georgia went to his biggest rival.
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More than 90 percent of Clinton’s voters wanted an insider, according to exit polls, and almost half said experience was the top quality they were looking for in a candidate.
