Ted Cruz have each added a delegate at the GOP caucus in American Samoa.
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Pre-election polls show Clinton with a double-digit lead in Arizona, boosted by Hispanic support and a closed primary system that may not favor Sanders and his independent supporters. Ted Cruz is now the least liked candidate in the race, according to the new poll.
In Utah, Cruz is hoping to reach a magic number: 50%.
The Republican candidates being totally easygoing following a debate sponsored by Fox News on March 3, 2016 in Detroit, Michigan.
On the Democratic side, Arizona’s delegates are awarded proportionally, giving Clinton most of the state’s delegates. The problem, as Kasich’s team later acknowledged, is that the 15 percent threshold isn’t in effect if only two candidates are at or above 15 percent.
Should the poll numbers prove accurate and Cruz receives the majority of the votes, he will be awarded with all of Utah’s 40 delegates. Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, supported Kasich there.
Kasich is in the midst of a challenging stretch of the campaign. Overall, Trump has accumulated 739 delegates, Cruz has 425 and Kasich 143. In this scenario, the tycoon might be hard pressed to get to 1,237 given what is likely to be strong resistance to his candidacy.
The voting gives the candidates another opportunity to pile up delegates on the way to the Republican and Democratic conventions, but is not expected to alter the basic outlines of the race.
“We must utterly reject the use of deadly acts of terror”, Kasich said in a statement.
Trump spent Monday in Washington on a goodwill tour of sorts.
“This is war”, Cruz told journalists at a press conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
But foremost is still the mater of winning the 1,237 delegates.
Trump’s bombast makes him far less popular in Utah where a polite, pragmatic culture rooted in the Mormon faith holds sway.
“If it was at 1,190, so I am a little bit off…”
Meanwhile, the crew at FiveThirtyEight surveyed political experts on the question of how many delegates they expect Trump to win going forward.
The Cruz campaign said the attacks in Brussels could give its candidate an opening to distinguish himself from other candidates, including Trump.
Democrats were also voting on Tuesday, in Arizona, Utah and Idaho, with front-runner Hillary Clinton aiming to pile up more delegates in her race against challenger Bernie Sanders.
On the Democratic side, Clinton’s advantage is even greater. Clinton and Sanders are divvying up 75 delegates.
And he’s arguing that Republican-leaning Western states are the place to do it. “We’re having a problem with Muslims coming into the country”, Trump said on CNN. Sanders has done better than Clinton in caucuses this cycle, and Idaho is a state she lost handily to President Obama in 2008.
It’s more than an effort to get a head start on defining a general-election foe. Sanders is expected to win in largely white Utah. Clinton’s response on CNN was the first step in shutting down Donald Trump’s circus of lies.
The site includes information such as the addresses for the 90 physical Democratic caucus locations in the state, as well as guidance on what documents to bring and who is eligible to vote.
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Hillary Clinton was the grown up, who refused to acknowledge the taunts of the man-child who is leading the Republican presidential primary.
