MI has not been called on the Democratic side.
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Mrs. Clinton came away from the evening with more delegates than Senator Sanders, owing to her blowout victory in the MS primary.
The Democratic Primary is expected to be a blow out in favor of Clinton but the Sanders campaign remains determined. If Trump, 69, could sweep those two states and pile up delegates elsewhere next week, it could knock home-state favorites Rubio and Kasich out of the race and make it tough for Cruz to catch him.
But the big loser of the night was Florida Sen.
While Trump Rubio are calling for party unity on the campaign trail, there was little evidence either had reached out to Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they’d have to work with as president.
The Ohio Legislature’s decision to make this year’s contest a winner-take-all primary could prove critical to keeping Trump from receiving the necessary 1,237 delegates for the GOP nomination, increasing the chances of a contested convention this summer.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says there’s a need for the party to unite around him, but argues that it isn’t yet time for him to dial back his aggressive campaign style. Bernie Sanders in Florida.
“I see a path for Ted Cruz that is not as clear as it would be for Donald Trump”, King said.
The most frustrating element of the battle for Sanders is that even his best night since New Hampshire did not avail him in the delegate tally. Clinton dominated in MS, meanwhile, helped once again by overwhelming support among black voters in the South.
Donald Trump urged Republicans to unite behind his candidacy Wednesday, following a trio of victories on Tuesday night in Mississippi, Michigan and Hawaii.
Navistar’s CEO says they worked with Kasich with grow their business at the company’s plant in Springfield, Ohio. Part of that spending will go into an ad called, “Corrupt Marco”, which criticizes Rubio for loose spending and labels him an “all-talk, no-action politician”.
Trump’s convincing win in MI restored his outsider campaign’s momentum and increased the pressure on the party’s anti-Trump forces to find a way to stop the brash billionaire’s march to the nomination ahead of several key contests next week.
Emerging as Trump’s strongest competitor, Cruz has accumulated the second-most delegates.
The CNN/ORC International poll has Trump at 40 percent in Florida, 16 points ahead of Rubio.
“Even if he’s the underdog, and even if he’s supposed to lose”, Burgin said of Rubio while knocking on doors in a Tampa-area neighborhood on Tuesday, “I will give everything I have”. The Florida poll found Ted Cruz garnering 18 percent support, and Kasich 8 percent.
Trump laid the blame on Rubio’s sometimes racy attacks that he leveled at Trump after the CNN debate in Houston last week.
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Moore, the political analyst, said a Hawaii win for Trump could mean a lot to the candidate. The trouble is that the race still has four candidates, and if it ever comes down to Trump and one other, it will probably be too late. His delegate count is now further behind Cruz than Cruz is behind Trump. “We already have won in the Midwest, New England and the Great Plains and as more people get to know more about who we are and what our views are, we’re going to do very well”. The margin of error was +/- 5.5 percentage points for Republicans and +/- 6 percentage points for Democrats.
