A voting bloc of prison inmates could play a role in deciding who gets 20 Republican convention delegates from Puerto Rico. Ted Cruz claimed caucus wins in Kansas and Maine.
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The party’s latest presidential debate is Sunday night at 9 p.m.in Flint, Michigan, and it runs two hours.
No candidate has had a major presence in Puerto Rico this campaign, though Rubio visited the island Saturday for the second time in seven months.
“Either way, it’ll be interesting”, he said. He also won in Minnesota in a race that has been dominated by Cruz and Trump. Marco Rubio has 123 delegates and John Kasich has 34. Rubio was followed by businessman Donald Trump, Texas Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
He also said the states that have yet to vote will be more favorable for him going forward.
Saturday’s races saw high voter turnout in several states.
Puerto Rico was the first of the five territories to make known its choice for the Republican nomination.
State GOP Executive Director Clay Barker said at least 73,000 people cast ballots in Saturday’s caucuses. The only other people allowed to submit absentee ballots in the territory are members of the military but party officials said they did not yet know how many of those had been cast.
On the Democratic side, there was another divided verdict from voters.
Iin the Democratic caucuses in ME, polls suggest that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will secure an easy win, possibly securing three states in total this weekend compared to only one for Clinton. Republican hopefuls need the votes of 1,237 delegates to get the nod for the presidential race proper.
Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the delegate count, Sanders vowed to keep fighting until the Democratic convention in Philadelphia this summer. After Saturday’s primaries, where Rubio missed the delegate threshold in two states, Trump argued it was time for the senator to drop out of the race.
Party leaders – including 2012 nominee Mitt Romney and 2008 nominee Sen.
There was no serious erosion in the delegate lead for either Trump or Clinton.
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“Everyone’s trying to figure out how to stop Trump”, Trump marveled about himself at an afternoon rally in Orlando, Fla.
