Republican Gov. Charlie Baker says he would not vote for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in November.
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Rubio, who scored his first win in a nominating contest on Tuesday with the Minnesota Republican caucuses, dropped 1 point to 10 percent, a record low for him. Trump’s seven victories – which spanned states as diverse as Alabama, Massachusetts, and Virginia – far outpaced any of his competitors. Chances are rising that she really will become the inevitable Democrat nominee. Trump, who had secured the support of Sarah Palin, the state’s former governor, will take home 11. Forget the polls at this moment. There’s a CNN poll showing Trump favored by 49 percent of Republican voters! The Sanders campaign believes it can win three of those states: Kansas, Nebraska and Maine.
While it was not quite a blowout for Clinton, the front-runner won by decisive margins in the three biggest states state by delegate count – Texas, Georgia and Virginia – and cleaned up in the remaining Southern states. Overall, Trump leads with 285 delegates, Cruz has 161, Rubio has 87, Kasich has 25 and Carson has eight. I don’t have much for you, but I have something: Donald Trump seems to be getting slightly less popular lately. Of course, the head-to-head race is months away, and this projection is like all the others, a projection.
Tuesday was a busy night on the campaign trail after voters in twelve states put their support behind their choice for president.
“If the establishment thinks there’s a backlash now, wait until the guy with the most delegates gets to the convention and they decide to take it from him”, said Republican operative Hogan Gidley.
Stroebel said there is a growing urgency because “mathematically, it gets more and more challenging” to beat Trump as he continues to win states.
Cruz won his home state of Texas, neighboring Oklahoma and Alaska.
A Democratic candidate must gain 2,383 out of a total of 4,763 delegates available to clinch the party’s nomination.
On what it means for Rubio: “As long as he has money to do it, I think he keeps going, unless he does some deal with Kasich (Kasich/Rubio ticket?)”. Trump, a political newcomer, pulled in two-thirds of voters looking to install an outsider in the White House, while Republican voters seeking an experienced candidate were split between Rubio and Cruz, both first-term senators.
While a Republican split widened between Trump supporters and the party’s more establishment mainstream, Democrats showed increasing cohesion as Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, won seven states on the way to regaining her status as the inevitable nominee.
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After Sanders took four states on Tuesday night, he said any talk of Clinton locking up the nomination is premature.
