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Marco Rubio, John Kasich fight to keep their hopes alive
Five states – Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and OH – host both Republican and Democratic nominating contests.
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Polls show Trump beating Rubio by double digits in Florida, but oh is expected to be a closer race.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate who has delivered a furious attack on Trump, campaigned for Kasich in North Canton, Ohio, on Monday but refrained from criticizing Trump by name or explicitly endorsing Kasich.
Donald Trump has hit out at OH governor John Kasich a day before the state’s Republican presidential primary.
CBS News’ Battleground Tracker poll shows a tie between Kasich and Trump going into Tuesday’s primary. Marco Rubio, since the Republican candidates will have little rationale to press on with their campaigns if they can not deliver their home states. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a campaign rally at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla., Monday, March 14, 2016.
Trump enters the evening with about 40 per cent of the delegates awarded so far; if the polls are correct, he’ll win enough states tonight to push that into the mid-40s. If Trump prevails, he’ll be awarded the state’s 66 delegates, effectively putting an end to Kasich’s somewhat-quixotic presidential bid.
The Vermont Senator is making a run for Missouri, Ohio and Illinois- where he’s campaigned heavily in Chicago.
With more delegates up for grabs than nearly any other day in the primary calendar, Tuesday’s contests afford Trump and Clinton the chance to put their parties’ nominations out of sight for their competitors. That gave him 469 to 370 for Cruz, 163 for Rubio and 63 for Kasich. As Cruz has barnstormed each state, Trump has also rolled through, with two rallies in Missouri and one in IL, with another in Chicago canceled over protests. So too John Kasich, if he fails to beat Trump in Ohio. “I’m exhausted of the party saying there’s going to do this for us and that for us and they don’t do it”, said Sharon McGinnis, an OH voter.
Even if Sanders pulls off an upset in OH or IL – where Clinton was born and raised – her status as the race’s frontrunner would remain unchanged, given her lead of more than 200 pledged delegates.
Even before Tuesday’s results, however, a group of conservatives was planning a meeting to discuss options for stopping Trump, including at a contested convention or by rallying around a third-party candidate.
If Trump sweeps Tuesday’s contests, he’d still have to keep winning in order to clinch the nomination.
“I am so anxious about our country and what could happen if we don’t band together to elect a president that can represent all of America”, she said Monday. Rubio and Kasich have suggested they might not be able to support Trump if he’s the nominee, an extraordinary stance for intraparty rivals.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders provide far more muted Twitter offerings. “I know that we’ve reached the point where people in American politics have decided that if they don’t agree with you, they can get angry at you, that you’re a bad and evil person, that they can say anything they want about you”.
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Their only real hope for stopping Trump is to deny him the 1,237 delegates needed for the nomination and extend the battle to the party’s nominating convention in July in Cleveland.