Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump were solidly on course yesterday for their party’s presidential nomination for the November general election after convincing wins in the latest batch of United States primary elections.
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Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich pumps his fist before speaking at his presidential primary election night rally in Berea, Ohio, on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swiped the Sunshine State from Sen.
John Kasich was the only other Republican candidate to claim a win his home state of OH, with 47 percent.
Sanders, who was counting on his strong arguments against free trade, failed to make an impact on the industrial Midwest.
Senator Rubio, however, did not, and suspended his campaign shortly Florida was called for Donald Trump, who also won in Illinois, North Carolina, and is leading in Missouri despite the race there having yet to be called.
Tuesday night’s primary races in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Missouri and OH are expected to most consequential yet of the primary calendar and determine whether the race for the White House is going to be a long slog for both parties.
A Trump nomination would be “so disastrous” for the U.S., Cruz said, adding that voters frustrated with corruption should not vote for the billionaire because Trump was “enmeshed in corruption for four decades, supporting liberal democratic politicians”.
Trump also won in IL, but it is not yet clear how the state’s delegates will be split, as the count is carried out at the congressional district level.
“There’s going to be a tremendous problem” if the Republican establishment tries to outmanoeuvr him at the convention, Trump said.
Marco Rubio is a friend and a colleague who ran an optimistic campaign focused on the future of our party, conservative principles, and uplifting the American people. Democratic candidates need 2,383 delegates to win their nomination.
Trump now has 621 delegates. And she’s widened her delegate lead over Bernie Sanders.
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The campaign next shifts to the West, where Sanders’ advisers have suggested he could rattle off a win streak and enter April with the chance to put a dent in Clinton’s delegate lead. “And these people are going to be negotiating our deals and they’re they best in the world”, he said.
