On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can put some distance between herself and rival Bernie Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, in Tuesday’s voting. In fact, Ohio’s 66 delegates will more than double Kasich’s holdings going into the primary contest.
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By capturing Florida, Trump won all 99 of the state’s delegates, giving him a huge lift in his drive to the nomination. But in specific rust belt states Sanders’ odds have increased. “When we started I was one of 17 people”.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio made many mistakes during his presidential campaign, which will nearly certainly end if he can’t win his home state’s Republican primary.
U.S. networks said the races in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri were still too close to call, with polls now closed in all five states.
Just before his announcement, CBS News projected that Trump had won Florida – a victory predicted by several recent polls. While Trump has amassed the most delegates going into today, he’s won fewer than 50 per cent of them.
And so, even as Trump took another large step toward securing the Republican nomination, the Buckeye state may play a crucial role in ensuring that he can’t win it outright.
“Obviously the difference is we’ll either be in Utah with a lot of momentum with the wind at our back or we’ll be in Utah after a disappointing night but we’ll be there nonetheless”, Rubio said.
The Florida senator dropped out of the presidential race after a brutal several weeks, lagging behind both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in delegate counts and in numerous polls. Earlier this week, Rubio said that the victor of the Sunshine State’s primary would be the eventual GOP nominee. Trump and Cruz were in a close race in North Carolina.
At a victory rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, Ms Clinton moved quickly to the November election by assailing Mr Trump’s hardline immigration positions and support for torture. Trump, Clinton, Sanders, Cruz, Kasich and a big day. If Kasich continues to run, the chances of a contested Republican National Convention in July could increase.
Nearly 2 in 10 of the voters said this was the first time they had voted in a Republican presidential primary, with the group nearly evenly divided between Kasich and Trump.
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“I took the opportunity to recommend to him that no matter who may be triggering these violent expressions or conflicts that we have been seeing at some of these rallies, it might be a good idea to condemn that and discourage it no matter what the source of it is”, McConnell said.
