Hillary Clinton enters a series of Super Tuesday contests poised to extend her lead over Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, who risks a major setback for his insurgent campaign with a poor showing in primaries and caucuses across the nation.
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According to polls, Trump led in most states going into Super Tuesday and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to be in good shape against Bernie Sanders. At rallies in Minnesota and MA on Monday, Sanders vowed to fight on until the party’s convention in July and his advisers pointed to a calendar that would be more accommodating later this month.
During church visits in Memphis on Sunday, Clinton shed any references to her Democratic opponent, focusing her fire on Republican front-runner Donald Trump. “Maybe his tax returns will show that those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported”. “I don’t know what our founders, some of those early patriots, would think about what we’re up against today”.
But Clinton’s dominant performance on Saturday among black voters means the best case for the Vermont senator may not just be to win in those states. And if Trump wins convincingly there, it’ll be much harder for Rubio or Cruz to catch him.
“Really sad.@realDonaldTrump you’re better than this”, Cruz tweeted.
“I watched this lightweight Rubio, total lightweight, little mouth on him, “bing, bing, bing” … and his new attack is he calls me a con artist”, Trump said.
He adds, “that never happened in terms of Mitt trying to tell me, you know, what I need to do with my career”. “I disavow”, he said, without elaborating.
A series of winner-take-all Republican primaries is coming, none bigger than Florida on March 15, where a cache of 99 delegates is at stake and Rubio will be bidding furiously for a home-state victory against Trump, a part-time resident who got a head start on organizing there. Each scenario predicts that while Trump may be the favorite in some states, Cruz and Rubio could pull away from his delegate count, taking away some votes that would put him at an advantage over others. Cruz will be the first to face that test, as Florida and OH vote later.
What is Super Tuesday and how does it work? Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson also have rather inexplicably stayed in, which only helps Trump.
Marco Rubio is picking up Monday where he left off, dogging Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump for not disavowing Sunday a white supremacist and the Ku Klux Klan.
If vote margins aren’t too tight, expect rolling waves of race calls as polls close in various states: Georgia, Virginia and Vermont at 7 p.m. EST; Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma and MA at 8 p.m.; Arkansas at 8:30 p.m.; Texas, Minnesota and Colorado at 9 p.m.; Alaska at midnight.
As for the Democrats, Sanders is looking to rebound after a deeply lopsided loss to Hillary Clinton in the SC primary, where more than half the voters were African-American, it said.
That second scenario would give Clinton a 151-delegate win. In South Carolina, the only Southern state to have voted so far, 96 percent of the GOP primary electorate was white, while 6 in 10 voters in the Democratic race were black.
As an example, the top four candidates in the 2012 GOP primary collected just 25 votes among them in Lee County.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that anyone who wants to be the Republican presidential nominee must reject any racist group or individual.
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“We should be having a serious debate about the policies needed to restore the American idea”.
