Texas Senator Ted Cruz can claim momentum heading into next week’s big primaries in Florida and elsewhere after an nearly clean sweep in Wyoming’s county conventions yesterday.
Advertisement
Others, including 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, had suggested that Trump could still lose the nomination even if he entered the convention with a plurality of delegates pledged to him.
Rubio picked up 10 delegates with his Saturday caucus win in the nation’s capital. With these results, Cruz wins nine delegates, while Rubio and Trump scored one delegate each, with another delegate uncommitted. One delegate was uncommitted.
None of the other candidates in the race won enough votes to earn any delegates. Friday, Rubio, a Florida senator, said his supporters in OH should vote for Kasich, who is the states governor, as a way to stop Trump – a strategy that could help deny Trump an outright majority. Cruz won 9 of the 12 delegates at stake, while Donald Trump and Sen.
Another 14 of the state’s delegates will be awarded at the party’s convention on April 16.
Trump leads the overall race for delegates with 460.
To get nomination, a Republican candidate needs 1,237 delegates.
Cruz crushed Trump by winning 66.3 per cent of the ballots, far ahead of Rubio, his nearest rival, who earned 19.5 per cent of the vote.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reaches for a smartphone for a selfie with a supporter after a campaign rally, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in Waterloo, Iowa.
On the Democratic side, Former Secretary of State and front-runner Hillary Clinton won in the first ever Democratic Party caucus on the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. possession deep in the Pacific Ocean.
Cruz had scoffed as recently as March 6 at the thought of “a bunch of Washington deal-makers and lobbyists who want to parachute in their preferred candidate because they don’t like what the voters are doing”.
Advertisement
The string of low-key contests are unfolding in the shadow of Tuesday, when many more delegates are up for grabs as part of the winner-take-all primaries in Florida and Ohio.
