He ordered several to be removed and asked one, who interrupted his remarks on immigration: “Are you from Mexico?”
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“Listen I am confident we are going to have a very good day in Texas tomorrow”.
Greta Lewis voted with her mother at the Central Christian Church in Memphis. Black voters powered Clinton to victory in SC last weekend and were expected to give her a huge advantage throughout the South.
Clinton offered a direct critique of Donald Trump’s slogan: “Make America great again”. She is casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults and bullying that have consumed the Republican race. “It really undermines our fabric as a nation”.
“What the political revolution is about is bringing our people together: black and white, latino, Asian-American, gay and straight, people born in America, people who have immigrated to America”, Sanders continued, urging voters to “not allow the Donald Trumps of the world to divide us up”.
In previous years, it’s done just that: the victor of the most delegates on Super Tuesday has nearly always gone on to clinch their party’s presidential nomination (an exception was John McCain in 2008).
A win in Texas, which has the largest number of delegates – 155 – of all the Super Tuesday states and doles them out at the congressional level, would prompt Cruz to say that he is the only GOP candidate who can truly compete with Trump for the nomination.
States holding voting contests in both parties on Tuesday are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. Republicans also vote in Alaska and Democrats in Colorado.
Trump was seeking to sweep the South, which would be a massive blow for Cruz.
But Republican voters were more divided on another major immigration issue, whether to deport immigrants already in the country illegally or allow them to stay.
She won 73% of 223 votes cast to earn four of the six delegates at stake, while Mr Sanders picked up two delegates. For Trump it’s a chance to knock out one or more of his rivals on his way to become the Republican nominee.
Trump’s closest rival, Marco Rubio, was the favorite of voters who said the most important consideration is choosing a nominee who can win in November.
“I’m afraid that everybody is going to vote for Trump”, voter Kelly Lyles said.
For his part, Rubio expresses certainty that he can get enough delegates to mount a challenge to Trump. Their reluctance foreshadowed a potentially extraordinary split in the party this fall.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is showing weariness with repeated questions about when – and whether – he has disavowed any connection with David Duke, a onetime Ku Klux Klan leader.
