In a speech that served as a thinly-veiled rebuke of Trump’s campaign tactics, Rubio warned that the politics of division will leave America a “fractured nation”. In Florida and North Carolina, about 8 in 10 black voters supported her, and she also won support of about 7 in 10 Hispanic voters in Florida.
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Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic US presidential nomination, with wins on Tuesday in Florida, North Carolina, Illinois and the main prize of Ohio.
Sen. Marco Rubio announced Tuesday night he would suspend his campaign, after he failed to win his home state of Florida.
“I’m hoping Trump, with his big rubber lips, will say ‘Look, there’s a way around this.’ ” Joe Herzog, a 76-year-old retired carpenter from Boonville, Missouri, who hopes Trump will keep the USA out of foreign entanglements. Trump and Cruz were in a close race in North Carolina.
“When we hear a candidate for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrants, banning all Muslims from entering the United States, when he embraces torture, that doesn’t make him strong, it makes him wrong”, she told the crowd. That seemed inconceivable only past year.
A favorite of Republican leaders, Rubio is the latest candidate to fall victim to an unpredictable election cycle and Trump’s unmatched ability to tap into the public’s anger with Washington and frustration with sweeping economic changes. And most voters who feel like they’re getting ahead financially supported Kasich. “The biggest people in the party are calling”.
By capturing Florida, Mr Trump won all 99 of the state’s delegates, giving him a huge lift in his drive to the nomination.
Rubio’s withdrawal leaves Kasich and Cruz as Trump’s last opponents. Cruz has struggled to build support beyond his base of evangelical Christians and Republican Southerners.
Hillary Clinton is declaring that she is moving closer to the Democratic nomination after three early states wins on Tuesday. She already has won Florida at 65 percent, IL at 51 percent, North Carolina at 55 percent and OH at 57 percent.
Before Missouri and IL results had been declared, she had extended her delegate lead to more than 300 delegates, and that is not counting the almost 450-delegate lead she has among “superdelegates”, the party leaders who are not bound by primary results. We have a great opportunity.
Kasich vowed to stay in the race, buoyed by his OH victory. Even though he is far behind in delegates, analysts say that denying Trump a victory in the state raises the likelihood that no candidate would have a majority of delegates by the time of the Republican National Convention in July. Kasich also did well with young voters and retirees.
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Trump won on the Republican side with 41 percent of the vote. Cruz has 370 delegates, and Kasich with 129. Because the Democratic contests are all split proportionately, Clinton’s giant win in Florida essentially guaranteed that she’d end the night with more delegates than Sanders. He has criticized the former secretary of state for her past support for trade deals. Hillary Clinton glided to a double-digit win in the rust-belt state, where Bernie Sanders had pinned his hopes on blue-collar voters after his unexpected victory in MI last week.
