The front-runners appeared ever more likely to end up in a general election showdown. Cruz won at least 99 delegates in the state and Trump got at least 33, with 20 left to be awarded.
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Sanders’ chances remain slim, especially in light of Clinton’s Tuesday wins, but the “democratic socialist” outsider has said he will remain in the fight until the last nominating contests.
The night belonged to Trump and Clinton, who turned the busiest day of the 2016 primaries into a showcase of their strength with a wide swath of American voters.
KEITH: Well, they say that they believe he can make up the delegates by June just sort of chipping away at Hillary Clinton’s delegate lead.
“Everything definitely changes after Super Tuesday”, she said. “If she hasn’t straightened it out by now, she’s not going to straighten it out in the next four years”.
Fox News Channel is staying put in Detroit. “And when you’re only winning 71 percent of the vote – that’s your worst – you’re doing fairly well”. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. The delegate math illustrates the importance of the March 15 primaries in Florida and OH in which the statewide victor gets all the delegates.
“I don’t think he really reflects conservative values”, said Hall.
Sanders carried the western part of the state, many rural areas, the Cape and the Islands, but Clinton beat him in the cities, including Boston and most of its suburbs.
Clinton now has a major lead in delegates, having picked up 597 on Tuesday to Sanders’ 406.
Clinton is projected to win the Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia Democratic primaries. On the Republican side, it takes 1,237 delegates to win.
Republicans spent months largely letting Trump go unchallenged, wrongly assuming that his populist appeal with voters would fizzle.
With votes from 12 states still being counted, Democrat Establishment favourite Ms Clinton and Republican rabble-rouser Mr Trump were ahead of the field.
Clinton had aimed for a sweep of Southern states in the delegate-heavy series of primaries and caucuses Tuesday before losing Oklahoma.
In Portland, Maine on Wednesday, Sanders lashed out at his opponent, saying there is one candidate who takes millions of dollars from big banks, the fossil fuel industry “and perhaps weirdo billionaires”.
Black voters gave Clinton a huge advantage throughout the South.
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Galvin said Bill Clinton also created a traffic jam outside a New Bedford polling location later in the day when he addressed voters on the street – but voters still were able to cast ballots. Two-thirds of GOP voters in Texas, Virginia and Georgia, 7 in 10 in Tennessee, and almost 8 in 10 in Alabama supported the proposal, according to the early exit polls.
