GOP front-runner Donald Trump, fresh off big wins in Louisiana and Kentucky, says he wants to take on Ted Cruz one-on-one for the remainder of Republican presidential race – and is calling on Marco Rubio to drop out of the contest.
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won the Kansas GOP caucus, notching a decisive victory over Donald Trump. Rubio, who is from Florida, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have said they’ll stay in the race at least through that days’ votes.
Clinton took Louisiana Saturday, where 51 delegates are up for grabs, while there are only 58 delegates at stake total between Nebraska and Kansas, where the Vermont senator won.
Trump’s struggles in the two caucus states will likely raise new questions about whether more conservatives are rejecting the billionaire as establishment Republicans unload scathing new attacks on him.
Clinton, in particular, was on track to win a majority of Democratic delegates from the Saturday races despite losing two out of three to Sanders.
Trump, at a post-election news conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, declared himself primed for a head-on contest between himself and Cruz, and called for Rubio to drop out.
Trump, however, was projected by a number of news networks to win in Louisiana, although Cruz was narrowing that lead as returns were coming in, perhaps an indication that Cruz was winning late deciders.
Campaigning in Detroit, Clinton said she was thrilled to add to her delegate count, “but now all eyes turn to MI”.
She said: “No matter who wins this Democratic nomination, I have not the slightest doubt that on our worst day we will be infinitely better than the Republicans on their best day”.
When you include superdelgates – party insiders who can choose any candidate – Clinton now has at least 1,121 delegates, compared with at least 481 for Sanders.
While ruling out putting his name into the mix, Romney has suggested a primary strategy that could lead to a brokered convention – calling on Republican primary voters opposed to Trump to vote for the non-Trump candidate with the best chance of winning in their state.
After getting crushed in the state of Kansas by Ted Cruz, Donald Trump was defeated by Cruz in Maine.
Rubio finished third or fourth in each Saturday contest.
Maine Democrats and Puerto Rico Republicans hold their nominating contests. But as the results of the Kansas caucus began to roll in, Trump held a rally in Orlando, Fla. that was punctuated by protest, and the apparent debut of a “protestor cam” by the Trump campaign to show the action.
Trump’s victory in the Louisiana primary was a close call: 41.6 for the tycoon and 37.9 for the Texas Senator.
“You see a similar race developing in the District that we’ve witnessed in virtually all the states so far”, Cunningham said in referring to the D.C. GOP’s March 12 presidential preference vote.
Sanders also won Nebraska by about 13 points. Primaries are official state elections, and they tend to carry more of an official air than party-run caucuses, which can offer shorting voting windows, lower participation and confusing processes.
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There are 1,762 more delegates available for the Republican candidates, who need 1,237 to secure the nomination.
