Hillary Clinton’s best day on the primary calendar is now behind her, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders said the day after he lost seven of 11 Super Tuesday states to the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Like Trump, Clinton won seven states, picking up victories in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, Massachusetts.
Records were also likely to be set in Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and MA.
On the Republican side, Ted Cruz claimed Super Tuesday’s biggest prize – Texas – along with Oklahoma and Marco Rubio landed his first win of the 2016 campaign in Minnesota while on the Democrat side Clinton’s main rival Bernie Sanders registered victories in four states.
“He made a decision to become Don Rickles”, Trump said, referring to the legendary comedian whose insults everyone.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who endorsed Trump during the Super Tuesday campaign, said the businessman has shown broad political support.
With 95 percent of precincts reporting, unofficial totals had Trump with about 49 percent of votes compared to 18 percent for Kasich, who was edging Rubio, also with about 18 percent.
“And after tonight, we have seen that our campaign is the only campaign that has beaten, that can beat and that will beat Donald Trump”, he argued. Clinton now has at least 969 delegates overall, while Sanders has at least 319.
Clinton visited Minnesota before heading to Miami, foreshadowing the importance of Florida for the general election.
But at least until then, Trump and Cruz are working to sideline him.
Trump led among early deciders, while late deciders were split among Trump, Cruz, and Marco Rubio. Sanders has won only in relatively small states where black voters make up less than 10 percent of the population.
Donald Trump’s victories and march toward the nomination was the night’s biggest headline.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Wednesday morning that Trump’s remaining rivals – Cruz, Rubio, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Ben Carson – are looking at their own chances and the possibility of a so-called brokered convention and “figure that they’ll hang in there as long as they can”.
In the latest Florida poll (Feb. 26) Trump was leading Rubio in his home state of Florida by 20 percentage points.
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And Rubio and Cruz are nearly tied for second place in numerous upcoming states, which doesn’t exactly pick a clear candidate to drop out. “I can tell you the one person Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to run against is me”. Sanders has at least 319. Now, it might be unusual, as I’ve said before, for a presidential candidate to say this, but I’m going to keep saying it: I believe what we need in America today is more love and kindness. There were still 40 delegates left to be allocated Wednesday morning.
