Donald Trump, the populist, so-called “outsider” candidate, roared closer to the Republican nomination with seven big wins on Super Tuesday-and now has the momentum to lock up the nomination.
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Trump won seven states, including Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia, on Tuesday.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on Super Tuesday primary election night at the White and Gold Ballroom at The Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 1, 2016, as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens.
Their wins make them runaway favourites to take their respective party nominations. “He’s the presumptive nominee and you have two guys who are now long shots, who have to reel him in”, says Jilson.
Rigell said he would write in a Republican candidate come Election Day if Trump wins the GOP nomination.
The Florida Senator accused Republican front-runner Donald Trump of pulling an “elaborate con job” on voters. “He’s got precisely that and it’s going nowhere for the time being”, said Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter published by the University of Virginia.
He will be in Mandeville, Louisiana Friday night while Trump will be in nearby New Orleans that same night. “I think we’ll be more inclusive and more unified”.
“I don’t think people in Loudoun want a European-style nationalist as their president”, Meyer, a Rubio supporter, said when asked why Loudoun didn’t go for Trump.
“Paul Ryan, I don’t know him well, but I’m sure I’m going to get along with him, and if I don’t, he’s going to have to pay a big price, okay?”
“On the other hand”, said Mr. Ellis, “if his three major opponents strategically form an alliance, and allow Rubio to challenge Trump virtually one-on-one in Florida, and allow Kasich to have an unencumbered chance in OH, and give Cruz the same in North Carolina (also on March 15), and they successfully top the leader in all of those places, the brokered convention becomes a clear reality”.
“I just had a very, very nice conversation with Dr. Ben Carson who announced today that he’s suspending his campaign”, Kasich said. Once a contender, Carson has faded into irrelevance.
I’ve been looking at Trump’s overall vote percentages to see if he was picking up support as the Republican field narrowed or if he would have trouble increasing his vote totals. In her victory speech, Hillary Clinton signaled she is now turning her attention to a general election face-off with Trump.
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Ted Cruz won Iowa and comes in second with 17 delegates.
