Democrats are more apt than Republicans to say they would support either of the remaining top candidates should they become the nominee.
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Because of the large number of contests, whoever performs well on Super Tuesday generally goes on to secure the nomination for each party.
Republican 2012 flagbearer Mitt Romney joined the chorus of outrage, tweeting that Trump’s “coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America”.
How confident is Trump that he’ll be able to pull it off?
Trump has won three of four early primary contests, roiling a party that had assumed his populist appeal with voters would fizzle.
Even before the results started flowing in, Trump was calling for Florida Sen. With no wins so far, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were fighting to emerge as the leading Trump alternative. She has double-digit leads in polls in states like Virginia, Arkansas (where Bill Clinton was governor) and Texas.
Cruz desperately needed his win in Texas in order to stay in the race.
Voters from Vermont to Colorado, Alaska to American Samoa and a host of states in between were heading to polling places and caucus sites on the busiest day of the 2016 primaries.
The GOP establishment’s moves to unite behind Rubio have hurt Cruz’s ability to appear viable on a national level, despite his still-healthy war chest. Rubio has come after Trump in the last few weeks, attacking his ideas, character, and consistency.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich hopes simply to survive Super Tuesday.
Hot off a blowout win Saturday in the SC primary, it will be the former secretary of state’s first public event in MA since her November rally at Faneuil Hall, where she was officially endorsed by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. “We can win in Minnesota if we have the turnout”.
By late tonight, Donald Trump could have more than one-third of the delegates he’ll need to win the U.S. Republican nomination, leaving his rivals precious little time to elbow him off-course before he reaches the finish line. But he’s expected to capture dozens of delegates because those states award them on a proportional basis.
Sanders has stepped up efforts to distinguish himself from Clinton, who has positioned herself as the realist in the race and has said she doesn’t want to make promises she can’t keep.
“She’s been there for so long”, Trump said at his swanky Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The Vermont senator did carry his home state decisively, and told the crowd at a raucous victory party that he was “so proud to bring Vermont values all across this country”. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic nomination race by 20 points in the swing state.
States holding voting contests in both parties are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia.
The calendar will get better for Sanders in later March, as states such as Nebraska, Kansas and ME take their turns.
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Bernie Sanders may have the odds stacked heavily against him in most of the 11 states voting in Super Tuesday today while the Donald Trump steamroller might fancy its chances of sweeping the board everywhere with big margins but there is one voting pocket located much deeper South than any of today’s precincts which begs to differ on both counts- namely the Herald’s straw poll.
