In the democratic race, the Jewish senator Vermont, Bernie Sanders, beat, as expected, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the votes in Kansas and Nebraska.
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“It looks like Louisiana will follow the trends with the previous results from Super Tuesday, whereby Clinton will win by a significant margin”, Lee said. While Trump may have been the Republican who won the most, as polling and statistics analysis site FiveThirtyEight explained, Trump’s performance was not particularly spectacular, and mostly aligned with previous predictions of his showing on Super Tuesday; Marco Rubio’s poor showing was a big blow to his candidacy, while Ted Cruz’s surprising 3-state win ensured his campaign would live to see another day.
Trump almost doubles Texas Sen. Reporter: Republican leaders I have spoken to believe last night’s results are a sign that Donald Trump is losing momentum.
Trump’s decision to skip an appearance yesterday at a conference sponsored by the American Conservative Union in the Washington area to get in one last Kansas rally rankled members of the group, who tweeted that it “sends a clear message to conservatives”.
“Everyone’s trying to figure out how to stop Trump”, the billionaire marveled at an afternoon rally that was interrupted frequently by protesters. As for Trump, Berry said, “he is a little too narcissistic”. He also suggested that Romney may continue to have 2016 ambitions of his own, but had “chickened out” earlier. They’ve got to be very careful.
It was anger that propelled many of his voters to the polls. Although that history may have favored Cruz, Trump proved again he could win in a Southern state with evangelical voters.
She hammered him for reversing a plank of his immigration plan during Thursday’s debate to say he now supports an increase in visas for highly skilled foreign workers. In Louisiana’s primary, there is no threshold to earn a portion of the delegates.
I think we may have passed peak Trump, as it will be known. Challenger and Texas Senator Ted Cruz also was visiting and Florida Senator Marco Rubio had three campaign events Friday. And 367 delegates at stake on March 15th, with the biggest prizes, the winner-take-all states of Florida and John kasich’s Ohio.
Tonight’s Republican primaries in four states did not decid who will be the presidential candidate because the number of delegates that were up for graps is rather insignificant, but they were important for another reason: They were the first since the Republican establishment launched an attack against Trump, calling not to vote for him. It takes 2,383 delegates to win the nomination.
There is more than a fair bit of fight left in the US presidential race, with Republican and Democratic front-runners facing significant competition from their fellow candidates on Saturday. “And I think it’s time that he drops out”, he said of Rubio.
A crucial component of Trump’s strength has been his ability to expand the Republican electorate – shattering turnout records in states like Virginia and bringing into the fold “Reagan Democrats” in northern states. But he wasn’t biting.
But we now set – his speech sets up a very interesting phenomenon.
Rubio, for his part, has had no qualms denouncing Trump as a fraud and a “con artist”.
“Sixty-one million people voted for me”, Romney replied. If Cruz won a race or two, would it be because of those state’s unique constituencies – Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum also won their races in 2008 and 2012, respectively, even as a dominant frontrunner emerged – or because of his genuine strength relative to Trump? Cruz had 231, Rubio 110 and Kasich 25. 150 delegates up for grabs this Tuesday, with MI the one to watch there. Then, on March 15, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and OH hold their primaries. We’re going to win Florida.
Kasich, looking for political survival with victories in the Midwest, said OH would be “the crown jewel” for him.
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Clinton hoped that strong support among African-Americans in Louisiana would propel her to victory.
