Democrat Bernie Sanders picked up his home state of Vermont, as well as Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota, but failed to broaden his appeal with minority voters who are crucial to the party in presidential elections.
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Trump campaigned earlier in the day in Kasich’s home state of OH and in Kentucky, both with contests in the next few weeks.
After the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in a dozen states, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had tightened their grasp on their party’s presidential nominations.
Sen. Marco Rubio looked strong in Minnesota, where he was leading at the time Cruz gave his speech. Votes are still being counted for the Alaska caucuses. The end result is that Clinton has a clear path to winning the nomination, and Sanders’s only hope to derail her is for something very unusual to happen.
The disarray among Republicans comes as Clinton appears to be tightening her grip on the Democratic field.
“Trump then promised to “create jobs” and “lower taxes…for the middle class. “The middle class has been forgotten in our country”, he said, “…so we are going to lower taxes”. America never stopped being great. She wants to “make America whole again” and I’m trying to figure out what is that all about.
An Associated Press survey of GOP senators and governors across the country showed just under half of respondents would not commit to backing Trump if he’s the nominee. Trump said he had not understood the interviewer who first raised the question about Duke, and he did later repudiate him.
Here are four lessons learned from the events of “Super Tuesday”.
When it comes to second choices, more Cruz supporters say they would switch to Trump over Rubio (30 percent to 21 percent), according to an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll.
The road ahead will only get tougher for Cruz and Rubio, and easier for Trump. “If Republicans go after him, they’re destroying their own nomination”, strategist Frank Luntz told CBS.
“I tell you, really frankly, if Trump runs I’m not voting”. “We have seen that our campaign is the only campaign that has beaten, can beat, and that will beat Donald Trump”.
The 45-year-old said: “For any candidate that wakes up tomorrow morning who hasn’t won any states…”
Elsewhere, Marco Rubio had to be sweating so much that Donald Trump will be making jokes about it again tomorrow.
“This campaign is not just about electing a president. What that revolution is about is bringing millions and millions of people into the political process”. Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who had backed Christie, also shifted his support to Trump.
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For Rubio, Super Tuesday turned into a bitter disappointment. He argued that the upcoming primary schedule, which will feature his home state of Florida, would serve as a boon for his campaign.
