Ted Cruz of Texas as the once-unwieldy nominating contest narrowed to a three-person brawl with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who won his home state’s primary.
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Donald Trump says Republican senators who are trashing him in public are calling him in private because they want to “become involved” in his presidential campaign, eventually.
“Good-paying jobs are the ticket to the middle class, and we are going to stand up for the American middle class again”, Clinton vowed.
Five states held primaries on Tuesday night. For the first time, two states – OH and Florida – had winner-take-all contests.
“With more than half the delegates yet to be chosen and a calendar that favors us in the weeks and months to come, we remain confident that our campaign is on a path to win the nomination”, it read, according to The Post. He told a victory rally in Florida: “This was an incredible night”. Clinton now has at least 1,561 delegates, almost two-thirds of the total needed to win the Democratic nomination.
The Democratic party favorite was also projected to win North Carolina while votes were still being counted in IL and Missouri.
Republicans can either throw their weight behind a candidate who rejects their policy goals or go on trying to stop him in the hope that he falls short of the majority required, enabling them to put forward another candidate at the July convention in Cleveland to formally pick their candidate for the Nov 8 election. In an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood, the former vice presidential candidate and current speaker of the House refused to rule out accepting the nomination at a contested Republican convention.
This was the first victory for Mr Kasich, whose upbeat message and long record of government service has had little resonance as his rivals seized on voter anxiety and disdain for Washington. While he could benefit from Rubio dropping out, he remains an extreme longshot for the nomination, though he could help keep Trump below the 50 percent threshold. Trump began to take notice, and attacked him as an “absentee” governor who got lucky with his state’s energy boom.
“We are moving closer to securing the Democratic Party nomination and winning this election in November”, Clinton told her supporters in Florida on Tuesday evening.
Ted Cruz has 396 delegates – but could reach 407 – Kasich has 138 and Rubio left the race with 168.
Trump also won in IL, but it is not yet clear how the state’s delegates will be split, as the count is carried out at the congressional district level.
Hillary Clinton has won the North Carolina Democratic primary, her second win of the night, according to a CNN projection.
Clinching Florida gives him all 99 delegates in the state’s winner-takes all system and consolidates his lead. Bernie Sanders in delegate-heavy Florida and Ohio.
That’s a scenario that hasn’t played out in any meaningful form since 1952, when it took Democrats no fewer than three ballots to finally settle on their nominee – Adlai Stevenson of IL.
The bad news: There may not be enough delegates for him to pull this thing off. In Missouri, Cruz is close enough to Trump to call for a recount.
Rubio said during the beginning of 2007-2008 when the country faced a major economic crisis, voters repeatedly showed their complete disregard for politicians, beginning even before the 2010 tea-party wave that got Rubio elected.
The tone and tenor of the campaign will eventually shift away from divisiveness, Trump suggested Wednesday. He has encouraged supporters to confront protesters at his events and is now facing accusations of encouraging violence after skirmishes at a rally last week in Chicago that he ended up cancelling. “Don’t tell me that we have to have the highest rate of child poverty in the industrial world when we have a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires”, he said. “I’m representing many, many millions of people”.
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The Florida senator acknowledged that “America’s in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami”, but maintained the optimism that was the cornerstone of his campaign over the anger embraced by a plurality of Republican voters.
