Cruz posted impressive margins in both Kansas and ME, and he beat Trump in the closed caucuses, where only registered Republicans could vote.
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If Trump emerges as the GOP nominee, 3-in-4 Florida Republicans (75%) say they would get behind him in a general election against Hillary Clinton.
In the Democratic race, 55 percent of Michigan’s Democratic primary voters said they support Clinton while 42 percent said they back Sanders.
“I think we will have a manifest uprising”, he said on a political chat show.
To win the Republican nomination outright, a candidate must win 1,237 delegates. It takes 2,383 delegates to win.
The Texas senator defeated Trump easily in Kansas and ME, and Trump rolled to victory in Louisiana, underscoring that his appeal knows no geographic limitation.
Cruz also criticized mud-slinging and the use of profanity during the Republican campaign, singling out Trump and Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Rubio voters move to Kasich 75/16 over Trump, Cruz voters do so 69/25, and undecideds would pick him 54/11 if Kasich and Trump ended up being the two candidates they chose between. Ohio Governor John Kasich trails with 35 delegates.
Polls in MI are all over the place, but most give Trump a lead in a state that will award 59 convention delegates on a proportional basis.
In three-quarters of U.S. states, the delegates who travel to the Republican convention to represent, say, Trump are picked among party activists without input from the candidate. Trump has a significant 44% to 22% advantage in Florida’s central region.
“I think it’s time that he dropped out of the race”, Trump said of Rubio after the contests. Cruz, cementing his claim to be the Trump alternative, captured Kansas and Maine.
“But Donald Trump is not Republican in any sense of the word”.
“I would like to take on Ted one on one”, he said, ticking off a list of big states where he said Mr Cruz had no chance.
Trump has been a lightning rod in the GOP race, spawning resistance from many evangelical Christians and other conservatives, including the use of the hashtag #NeverTrump on Twitter. According to the AP, Clinton will walk away with 55 pledged delegates, while Sanders nets 47. The formality is due to the use of superdelegates, who can support any delegate whereas pledged delegates support the victor of a state’s primary.
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Idaho Democrats are not using the March 8 presidential primary to choose their nominee. Recent media reports have questioned Rubio’s campaign strategy in Florida and elsewhere. “We are doing better and better with younger people whether they’re black, Latino, or white”, Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union” show.
