Rubio flew from Minnesota to his home in Miami to await the results of voting in the 11 states awarding delegates in the Super Tuesday primaries.
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It’s looking increasingly like a 2016 matchup between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton.
Sanders said he would continue his fight to rest of the states. Neither candidate won the presidential election. “This campaign is not just about electing a president”, he said at a rally on Tuesday night in Vermont.
(AP Photo/Alan Diaz). Republican presidential candidate, Sen.
THE B-WORD: Trump’s strong showing could generate fresh talk about the possibility of a so-called “brokered convention” from Republicans who just can’t get on board with the idea of Trump as the eventual GOP nominee.
Although Clinton didn’t campaign in American Samoa in person, an aid told Politico that she phoned the only caucus site in the territory and promised to represent the community as president.
More important, she won the backing of almost 90 percent of black voters, signaling a refortification of a once-reliable voting block which will have huge sway in numerous Super Tuesday voting states.
Sanders won his home state of Vermont as well as Oklahoma and pledged to stay in the race.
Rubio, who is favourite of the Republican establishment, was projected the victor in Minnesota in his first victory.
“Stressing on issues like economic turnaround, illegal immigration, building the wall on Mexico border, improving the military might and others, Trump said he is “a unifier” who would like to see the Republican Party and everybody unify”. Trump’s lead was larger among voters without a college degree and those earning less than $50,000 a year. Trump, who dubs his surging campaign the “Trump Train”, has derailed those plans.
Trump won at least 203 delegates Tuesday. Cruz collected at least 89 and Rubio picked up at least 51.
A total of 1,237 delegates are required to win the Republican nomination. Both are seeking to break out as Trump’s main rival.
Like Cruz, Vermont Sen. But he suffered a crushing symbolic loss in MA, which neighbors his home state of Vermont, and Clinton walked out of the night with a huge delegate lead. “You know, we want to win in every part of the country, that goes without saying, but it does say something and means so much to me that the people who know me best, the people who knew me as mayor, knew me as congressman and know me as senator, have voted so strongly to put us in the White House, thank you so much!”
Tuesday’s results left little doubt as to the front-runners in the race.
“What a Super Tuesday”, Clinton said at a Tuesday night rally after victories in the South demonstrated her strength among African-American voters that could make it extremely hard for Sanders to win the nomination. Sanders will receive at least 124. Overall, Clinton now has at least 1,005 delegates.
The survey was conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research as voters left their polling places at 30 randomly selected sites in Alabama.
Speaking from his gold-flecked Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump asserted that his candidacy is a “movement” and that he is expanding the Republican Party even as many of its leaders have distanced themselves from him. Trump said that if the two don’t get along, “he’s going to have to pay a big price”.
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One way Trump claimed he would unify the party was by training his fire on Clinton.
