The Republican front-runner spent more time here on Sunday attacking the OH governor than any other of his presidential rivals.
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Donald Trump leads the Republican presidential field in the March 15 primary states of Florida and IL, while John Kasich holds the edge in his home state of OH, according to three new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
Each state is allocated a certain number of delegates for the Democratic and Republican primaries by its respective national parties.
On the Democrat side, the strategy is pretty simple: win the elections.
Clinton had been campaigning hard in the state, after losing the MI primary to Sanders among a similar electorate. That still leaves Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, with 193 delegates in total. “Super Tuesday” will have a limited impact on the Democratic race, where Hillary Clinton has streaked ahead in the delegate account and is already firm favorite to secure the 2,383 needed for the party nomination. “I’m not into a stop-Trump as much as I am be-for-Kasich movement”.
Clinton won OH in 2008 and won in Athens by a thin margin. He would not only lose his home state, but also could well be blamed for putting IL into Trump’s column by siphoning off votes from Sen. Trump has been accusing Sanders of sending protesters to disrupt Trump’s rallies, which the Vermont Senator denies.
Clinton and Sanders each hold leads over the top two Republican candidates, real estate developer and reality television star Donald Trump and U.S. Sen.
In Illinois, Trump gets the support of 34 percent of likely GOP primary voters, Cruz gets 25 percent, Kasich gets 21 percent and Rubio gets 16 percent.
The poll found Clinton led on that question with 25 percent of all voters polled.
“Just to see Americans slugging each other at a political rally disturbs me, ” Kasich said. We have millions of supporters, and people do what they do, and people have the right to protest.
Bernie earned about $381,000 in OH, and about $5,000 in Athens.
In Ohio, its popular governor Kasich is in a tight race with Trump, latest opinion polls said yesterday.
Insisting “it’s too close to call” despite polls showing Trump in the lead, Rubio maintained that his ground game made the Sunshine State competitive. It takes a majority, which raises the possibility of a contested convention with an uncertain outcome. “Trump and Gov. John Kasich are in a dead heat for the Buckeye State’s GOP delegates”.
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OH is a winner-take-all state for Republicans, which means the candidate who receives the most votes in the state receives all 66 of its delegates. Yet he seemed to soften ahead of Tuesday’s five nominating contests in which, for the first time, all delegates in a given state will pledge to support that state’s victor rather than splitting up to reflect vote share.
