News projected Senator Ted Cruz as the victor of the Kansas caucus, and will walk away with most of the states delegates.
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“It is Bernie or nothing”, said McKinsey Wohler, a 31-year-old towing-service dispatcher from Wichita.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is putting in a plug for his candidate, Donald Trump, at the state’s GOP presidential caucuses. But after enduring sustained attacks from his rivals over the past week, Trump may now be showing some damage. Rubio had one win in Minnesota.
The senator also introduced his older brother, a Vietnam veteran who lives in the area.
Cruz, a first-term USA senator from Texas who has promoted himself as more of a true conservative than Trump, also won a non-binding “straw poll” of activists earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C.
Campaigning in his home state of Florida, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is reminding voters in Jacksonville that they’ve helped him as an underdog candidate before.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won the big prize of the night: Louisiana. At a later rally in Jacksonville, Florida, he pleaded for support from the same city “that believed in me” in his successful Senate bid six years ago. “Trump has not actually told what he plans on doing” as president.
Cheers erupted from the capacity-crowd inside the University of Central Florida campus arena.
“If the big, fat GOP don’t like him, they don’t like me”, she said, adding that if the party kicks him out at the last minute she is going to write his name in on the ballot. But no recent individual poll showed Trump leading by more than five points.
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. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off in Nebraska, Kansas and Louisiana.
Trump has a substantial lead in the delegates needed to secure the nomination at the Republican National Convention, but since winning seven of the 11 contests on Super Tuesday he has come under withering fire from a Republican establishment anxious he will lead the party to defeat in November’s election.
In early returns, Texas Sen. Trump told thousands of supporters in Wichita that he had been scheduled to attend an annual gathering of national conservative leaders Saturday but backed out to attend the Kansas rally.
Maine Republicans have given U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz talk over each other in the Republican presidential debate on February 25, 2016 in Houston, Texas.
Those records would shed additional light on Kasich’s charitable contributions, for example.
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“We’re going to get rid of our debt, we’re going to balance our budgets and we’re going to have a country again”, Trump told raucous Kansas caucus-goers.
After Super Tuesday and Super Saturday were not so super for either John Kasich or Marco Rubio, there are only two plausible paths forward: 1) “Trump against the field”, where Kasich, Rubio, and Cruz all stay in and divide the map to play to their strengths (Kasich for Ohio, Rubio for Florida, Cruz everywhere else) and deny Trump delegates, and 2) “Cruz or lose”, where Rubio and Kasich bow out soon and Cruz goes head-to-head with Trump.
Belton says she “adores Trump”. Turnout in Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas exceeded the party’s most optimistic predictions. They waved signs saying, “Trump Makes America Hate Again” and “A Bridge Not a Wall”.
Turnout was heavy at many sites for the Kansas Democratic caucuses Saturday.
“I don’t feel comfortable with Trump”, Register said. Supporters praise Kasich’s authenticity and maturity.
Susan Mendenhall is 62 and describes herself as a “one-woman media campaign” who posts information about the OH governor on social media.
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Louisville resident Chris Michals said she supports Trump because he’s an outsider who can bring a new perspective to the Washington political scene.
