GENERALLY SPEAKING: Watch front-runners Clinton and Trump spar from afar in an anticipated general election matchup. Cruz won Texas and neighboring Oklahoma, giving him more wins than anyone else in the race except Trump. As we get closer to victor take all states it is vital this becomes a two-person race.
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Including super delegates at this point is not only misleading, but downright dishonest because super delegates won’t vote until the Democratic National Convention.
“The stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric we’re hearing on the other side has never been lower”, Clinton told supporters in Miami.
“Instead of building walls, we’re going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every American can live up to his or her potential”, Clinton said, in an implicit attack on Trump’s calls to build a wall on the southern border of the USA to combat illegal immigration. “We’re going to go to Florida, we’re going to spend so much time in Florida”. Trump’s dominance has rattled Republican leaders, who fear he’s unelectable against Clinton in November.
“If I don’t, he’s going to have to pay a big price”. Marco Rubio had about 19 percent, Texas Sen.
For Mr Rubio, Super Tuesday turned into a bitter disappointment.
In an unusual move that reflected his booming confidence, Trump held a rally in OH, a state that is not taking part in Super Tuesday but holds a crucial winner-take-all primary in two weeks. The Florida senator had hit Trump hard this week but ended up with little to show for it on Super Tuesday until he finally won in Minnesota late on Tuesday. Overall, Trump leads the Republican field with 221 delegates.
Marco Rubio has won at least 25 delegates and John Kasich has won at least 13.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump notched big wins across the South on Super Tuesday as they extended their leads for their party’s nomination.
A new CNN/ORC poll found that both Mrs Clinton and Senator Sanders would easily defeat Mr Trump if the general election were held now.
The retired neurosurgeon picked up only three of the 595 delegates up for grabs Tuesday.
Tuesday’s votes in a dozen USA states have cleared the air in some respects, and muddied the waters in others. Clinton will take Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas while Trump will win Georgia, Alabama, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Virginia.
After winning Texas and Oklahoma on Super Tuesday, Cruz repeatedly suggested to supporters in a speech that he was the only one who could take Donald Trump down.
Trump’s Virginia win is especially disappointing to Rubio, who had hoped a win there would kick-start his effort to challenge the real estate mogul. But he failed elsewhere in the South, which was considered prime territory for him, watching as Mr Trump displayed surprising strength with evangelical Christians and social conservatives.
In Augusta, Ken Nesbitt, who voted for Clinton at Vineyard Church, said he believed the candidate had a “very good” chance of winning Georgia following South Carolina’s primary, adding many voters that he has talked to have expressed support for her.
In six of the states on Tuesday, large majorities of Republican voters said they supported a proposal to temporarily ban all non-citizen Muslims from entering the United States, an idea championed by Mr Trump.
Nine in 10 of Trump’s voters are looking for an outsider. The Vermont senator did carry his home state decisively, and told the crowd at a raucous victory party that he was “so proud to bring Vermont values all across this country”.
Mr Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who has galvanised young voters by calling for a political revolution, vowed to keep fighting.
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Continuing his dream run, Trump, who joined politics only eight months ago, registered impressive wins in the states of Georgia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Alabama.
