He faces a strong test in OH and Florida, where John Kasich and Marco Rubio are making something of a last stand to stop Trump.
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On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton holds a wide delegate lead over Bernie Sanders.
This is swing-state OH, after all, and another big cache of delegates who all go to the victor.
Both parties held contests in Ohio, Florida, Missouri, Illinois and North Carolina; the Ohio and Florida primaries were especially crucial for Republicans because all GOP delegates in those big states go to the victor. The latest Quinnipiac survey found that Rubio lagged behind Trump by 24 points in Florida. A polling average from Real Clear Politics has Trump at 42.9 percent and Rubio at 23.8 percent. Indeed, Clinton has a sizable lead in general, but she is still working to seal the deal on the path to the nomination. For Republicans, it’s the first state to award all its delegates to the primary victor and not proportionally, meaning Trump will take all 99 delegates. Kasich badly trails in the delegate race and his path to the nomination, absent a protracted fight into the convention, remains improbable if not impossible. Trump stepped up his attacks on Kasich, the state’s governor, accusing him of being weak on illegal immigration and of holding responsibility for the loss of manufacturing jobs to Mexico. Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, delivered a scathing speech about Trump March 3 and called Trump “a fraud”.
Cruz isn’t expected to win any states, though he could pull off an upset in North Carolina or possibly in his campaign manager’s home state of Missouri, as polls have shown single-digit races in both places.
Not to be overlooked, Trump began the big day of voting with a win in the US commonwealth’s GOP caucuses. “She barely won”, Brady conceded.
Results are not fully yet in for IL and Missouri. Even if Sanders does not win Florida, a close race there could rock Clinton’s campaign, according to Adam Seth Levine, a political scientist at Cornell University. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., before he arrives at a campaign stop at the Maple Street Biscuit Company in Jac… By winning OH, he actually did Mr. Trump a favor by keeping it a three man race, thereby assuring Trump’s continued success. Clinton’s Twitter feed chimed in with “FL, IL, MO, NC, and OH: Hillary’s counting on you to vote today”. – Sharon Schaffer, 65, in South Side Chicago, voted for Clinton, hoping she’s the Democrat who can defeat Trump. He took 73 percent of the vote (343 votes out of just 471 cast), which will give Trump all nine available delegates.
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Given his election rhetoric which has rattled the Republican establishment and the Opposition Democratic presidential aspirants, Mr Trump could make it one of the most polarised elections in American history. Cruz was second with 113 votes, while Kasich got 10 votes and Rubio got just five votes.
