For that, I suspect, is what Donald Trump has now: “momentum”, in quotes.
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Mr Trump won Florida 46 percent, IL 39 percent, North Carolina 41 percent and was ahead in Missouri with 99 percent of the vote counted at 41 percent.
Mr Trump is well on his way to winning the Republican presidential nomination, having scored 621 of the 1,237 delegates needed. Ted Cruz. It would be a clash of potential alternatives as each man maneuvers to claim the mantle of credible alternative to the brash billionaire who has controlled the race for months.
Mr Kasich, who has tried to emphasise the positive in a Republican race dominated by the pugnacious Mr Trump, said his campaign was “about holding us together, not pulling us apart”.
Her campaign had anxious recently that she would lose IL to Sanders on Tuesday, along with Missouri and Ohio.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally during a campaign event on Super Tuesday in Miami on March 1, 2016.
During the second vote, delegates are generally freed up to vote for whomever they want. I think you’d have riots. I think bad things would happen. I know he will continue to be a champion for limitless opportunity in America, and I wish Marco, Jeanette, and their four kids the very best.
“Tonight I am suspending my campaign”, Jeb Bush said in February after the SC primary.
The idea that Republican delegates could end up deciding their presidential nominee when they meet at their convention in July seemed to gain new credence Tuesday night as Gov. John Kasich fended off Republican frontrunner Donald Trump to win his home-state of Ohio. “And if you can’t win OH, you can’t be president”.
Kasich won on the Republican side with 47 percent of the vote.
“Trump has said he thinks riots would break out if he didn’t have the nomination after a contested convention”. Per the Post-Dispatch, Missouri law allows candidates to seek a recount if the vote comes in at less than one-half of one percent.
It was a tough night for Bernie Sanders supporters, who really felt the burn as Clinton steamrolled her path to victory. Mr Trump was also expected to win in North Carolina and IL, and Mrs Clinton in North Carolina and Ohio.
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The next multi-state primary voting will take place next Tuesday, with Arizona and Utah casting ballots for both parties and Idaho to hold a caucus to determine between the Democrat contenders.
