Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are aiming to widen their advantage in the Republican and Democratic presidential races in five states on a “Super Saturday” of primaries and caucuses. “That would be so much fun”. Marco Rubio of Florida at 14.8 percent, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich following with 8.7 percent.
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Clinton went into the caucuses with the endorsement of one of the state’s four party-leader superdelegates, who can back whomever they choose.
On Friday, Ben Carson, who was at one point a Republican front-runner, dropped out of the race.
The Maine Republican Party says Texas Sen. In past GOP nominating contests, the state has gone with the evangelical favorite-former Pennsylvania Sen.
“If Trump wins those states, not only will he have a lot of delegates, he’ll have broken any momentum those two candidates have”, he said.
Clinton, meanwhile, is looking to further cement her lead over her challenger Bernie Sanders, though the Vermont senator will be encouraged by the fact that the contests in Kansas and Nebraska are caucuses, a format in which he has tended to perform better than primaries during the 2016 campaign.
“All the evidence is pretty clear that the Republican establishment is unhappy he’s the front-runner, unhappy he’s doing so well and unhappy that he’s probably going to win the nomination unless they take action to stop that”, Mason told CBC’s Michael Serapio in a television interview. She says, “There are lots of Flints out there”.
First up: His home state of Florida, where he again guaranteed victory – despite preference polls showing him trailing GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Cruz was expected to do well in the South going into Super Tuesday.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, called Trump a phony and a fraud who was playing American voters for suckers, and 2008 nominee John McCain, a USA senator from Arizona, said Trump’s foreign policy views were uninformed and risky. That is a problem for Sanders because the nomination could be decided by the large numbers of minority voters in the Democratic electorate, to which Clinton has demonstrated she has more appeal.
Clinton and Sanders both campaigned in MI, a sign of the importance both attach to the state’s primary on Tuesday.
Sanders, in an interview with The Associated Press, pointed to his wide margins of victory and called it evidence that his political revolution is coming to pass.
Wichita’s Barb Berry was among those who propelled Cruz to victory in Kansas, where GOP officials reported extremely high turnout.
“I believe that he is a true fighter for conservatives”, said Berry, a 67-year-old retired AT&T manager.
On Sunday, March 6 Maine Democrats will caucus to allocate delegates to the state convention.
It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.
Hillary Clinton earns her first win of the day at the Louisiana Democratic primary. “They’ve got to be very careful”, Trump said in Wichita before the vote.
The brash real estate mogul Trump is ahead in the all-important delegate count for the Republicans, having won 10 of the 17 states that have now voted in the process that determines the nominees for both parties.
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On Super Saturday, Republicans battled for 155 delegates in Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and ME while Democrats are voting in Kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska with 109 pledged delegates up for grabs.
