Mr Cruz desperately needed the Texas win in order to stay in the race. Trump needs to win a majority of the delegates to take the nomination.
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Fox News has called Georgia for Trump. His long-shot hopes now rest with his home state, Florida, which votes on March 15, but polls show him trailing Trump there. The race in Alaska has not been called. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., arrives at a campaign rally, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Miami, on Super Tuesday. He has seized on the anxieties of voters angry at Washington and anxious about terrorism, immigration and an uncertain economy.
“Instead of building walls, we’re going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment”, Clinton said.
We won’t know the full results from Tuesday’s votes until Wednesday morning, but it’s clear Trump is the night’s big victor.
Trump’s victories were widespread, from Alabama and Georgia in the deep south, to MA in the northeast, to the vital battleground state of Virginia. His weakness with black voters, a core part of the Democratic constituency, was underscored anew.
The “Super Tuesday” contests showed Clinton reclaiming her mojo against Bernie Sanders.
Trump dinged his Republican opponents, but took particular aim at Sen. “For those who have supported other candidates, we welcome you on our team standing as one”.
Signaling her growing confidence, Clinton has increasingly turned her attention to Trump in recent days, casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults and bullying that have consumed the Republican race.
He criticized Clinton’s track record said she “isn’t going to straight it out” over the next four years if elected president.
It is a pivotal day because it allocates almost a quarter of the 2,472 Republican delegates and some 20% of all delegates for the Democrats. A 12th state, Colorado, held a caucus – won by Mr Sanders – but does not actually select its delegates until April.
Almost half of Sanders’ voters said honesty was the most important quality and about a third said they were looking for someone who cares.
With an increasing delegate margin over her only rival, Clinton appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomination- solidifying her place in history as the first female presidential nominee for a major American political party. Cruz collected at least 132 and Rubio picked up at least 66.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich almost pulled off an upset over Trump in Vermont, but would finish the night with no actual victories. If Trump (or someone else) wins with 50% in any district he gets all the delegates in that district.
Republicans spent months largely letting Trump go unchallenged, wrongly assuming his populist appeal would fizzle. Many of those states fell in Trump’s column. He joked, “After a lot of deliberation, I know that Bernie Sanders, here in Vermont, got at least one vote”.
“Let’s see what voters decide in all these states that are lined up today and then we’ll take stock after it’s over”, Clinton said in Minneapolis Tuesday. The exit polls were carried out by Edison Research for the Associated Press and television networks.
Super Tuesday was the biggest single day of state-by-state contests to select party nominees for the November 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama. Mr Trump later said he had not understood the TV interviewer and he did repudiate Duke.
Clinton has also won the Democratic presidential primary in American Samoa and Arkansas, where she once served as the state’s first lady.
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CNNJake Tapper and Marco RubioCNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio if he was in “denial” about his chances against Donald Trump, the party’s frontrunner, who was on track to dominate the Super Tuesday contests.
