– Offering anything but clarity, Republicans delivered a split verdict between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in the latest round of presidential voting, offering fresh evidence of the turmoil still roiling the GOP after 19 states have had their say. “So his delegate lead is going down and Cruz’s delegate percentage is going up, which means to win the nomination Trump needs about 53 percent of the delegates that have yet to be picked, and Cruz needs about 63 percent”.
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Rubio said the upcoming schedule of primaries is “better for us”, and renewed his vow to win his home state of Florida, claiming all 99 delegates there on March 15.
Republican presidential candidates (Lto R) Sen. But the state would be only his second win from 20 contested so far, and not mark a significant change in his prospects.
“God bless Kansas. And God bless Maine”, Cruz said, and argued that his performance on Saturday represented an important pivot point in the GOP race. The Democratic Party is the oldest party in the word. But she lost to Senator Sanders in Kansas and Nebraska. In order to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, a candidate must win 1,237 delegates at the party’s national convention.
“I have been in competition all of my life”.
Mr Trump, at a post-election news conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, declared himself primed for a head-on contest with Mr Cruz, and called for Marco Rubio to drop out.
“Oh, do I want to run against Ted”, said Trump, ticking off a list of large states where he said Cruz had no chance. Romney, who denounced Trump in a scathing speech on Thursday that highlighted Trump’s racist remarks and his incitement of violence at campaign rallies, made clear on the cable news channel that he “can’t imagine” ever endorsing the former reality-TV star’s campaign. After Saturday’s election results, Trump called for Rubio to end his campaign for the presidency.
In Maine, Cruz won by a comfortable margin over Trump.
Boasting of his “breadth of support”, Mr Cruz suggested that it was time for Mr Rubio and Mr Kasich to consider dropping out of the race.
“The scream you hear, the howl that comes from Washington D C, is utter terror at what we the people are doing together”. Reporter: Super Saturday was Cruz’s biggest night yet.
Senator Rubio, however, campaigning in Puerto Rico, is far from ready to throw in the towel.
“Here’s the bottom line”.
“There will be more delegates awarded in Florida than basically any other state that voted tonight combined”, Rubio said. Kasich has said any candidate who can not carry his home state should leave the race.
Overall, Clinton had 1,104 delegates to Sanders’ 446, including superdelegates – members of Congress, governors and party officials who can support the candidate of their choice.
“We have allowed our politics to be hijacked by extreme ideologues”. He visited a predominantly African-American church in Cleveland on Saturday and acknowledged this was more generational than racial.
Sanders said the win in Nebraska coupled with a double- digit victory in Kansas put him on a path toward victory. “This map only gets better for us”. I think a lot of people were surprised by how well Ted Cruz did.
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On Tuesday, voters in Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi and MI, where 59 delegates are on the line, will head to the polls.
