Despite defeats to Ted Cruz in Kansas and Maine, Republican Mr Trump won in Louisiana and Kentucky.
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Cruz’s victory in the Kansas caucuses became the fifth for him as he previously dominated in Iowa, Oklahoma, Alaska and his native state of Texas.
In very early returns, Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz took advantage of the holiday spirit to post a satirical story-time skit that has netted his official YouTube page 1.9 million views. “This is more fun”, he tells a crowd in Wichita, Kansas, before the start of the state’s Republican presidential caucuses.
“Everyone’s trying to figure out how to stop Trump”, the billionaire said at an afternoon rally in Orlando, Florida that reporters say was interrupted frequently by protesters.
“It’s sort of exciting, isn’t it?”
Republican presidential hopeful look to cement his gains. “They don’t get it… they don’t understand what’s happening”.
The Republican race has been marked by a growing wave of attacks on Trump from the Republican establishment, which has blanched at his calls to build a wall on the border with Mexico, round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the United States. Republicans and Democrats also were voting in Louisiana on Saturday.
She adds, “The reason I want Trump so bad is that I feel he has a vision, he knows the country”.
As Trump would note, both men were defeated by President Obama.
Establishment favourite Rubio, who has won only one state so far, put on a courageous face, saying that the states being contested on Super Saturday favoured other candidates, but predicted that his fortunes would soon change.
Heading into Saturday’s contests – in Kansas, Louisiana, and Nebraska – Sanders faced delegate math that experts say will be hard to overcome.
But their hopes were restrained by victories for Trump in Louisiana and Kentucky, and for Clinton in Louisiana – and by the proportional allocation of delegates that makes it hard for anyone lagging in the race to make up much ground.
Between March 1-3, the poll surveyed 546 likely Democratic primary voters for a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points and 482 likely Republican voters for a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. The three states have a total of 109 delegates at stake.
Cruz got another morale boost Saturday from the gathering of activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he won the annual straw poll ahead of Marco Rubio and Trump, the latter of whom made a decision to snub the event at the last minute to campaign in Kansas on Saturday.
“Trump. I’ll vote for him all the time“, Benitez said. But he wasn’t biting.
Rubio, for his part, has had no qualms denouncing Trump as a fraud and a “con artist”.
With a little more than 60 percent of the vote counted, he now has more than 51 percent of the vote so far, with his nearest competitor, Donald Trump, trailing far behind with just 24 percent of the vote.
Going into Saturday’s voting, Trump led with 329 delegates. John Kasich came in third with approximately 12 percent of the vote and Florida Sen.
In all, 155 GOP delegates were at stake in Saturday’s races. He’s banking on a similar victory in the winner-take-all OH primary.
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Clinton met with about 20 African-American ministers in Detroit and said “the future” of the Supreme Court was on the ballot in November’s general election.
