Donald Trump’s multiple wins in hotly contested Super Tuesday presidential primary races dominated media coverage Tuesday evening, overshadowing Hillary Clinton’s equally impressive – and arguably, more significant – performance.
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Trump and Clinton each won seven states on Super Tuesday, when 12 states were voting.
Mr Graham warned that Republicans would “lose to Hillary Clinton” with Mr Trump as their party nomination.
More likely, one candidate will wind up winning states in the latter stages of the election calendar and reap plenty of delegates.
On Tuesday, Cruz muted Trump’s delegate gains by winning delegate-rich Texas, which is Cruz’s home state. These are the first primaries that can award all of a state’s delegates to the victor, and the two big prizes are Florida and Ohio.
Vos said Ben Carson and John Kasich, while good candidates, should drop out and leave a three-person race between Trump, Cruz and Rubio for the nomination.
The Democratic candidate needs 2,382 delegates to win his or her party’s nomination. Sanders will also look to a glut of caucuses – in which he has performed well – at the end of March, especially one in Washington state, where more than 100 delegates are at stake. “Her ability to coalesce a nominating majority of delegates will, I think, be substantially inhibited”. Clinton now has a total of 1,005 delegates, while Sanders has 373.
Lance deHaven-Smith, professor of political science at Florida State University, said Trump’s anti-establishment message of “throw the rascals out” is enough to win the primary because of a radicalized Republican base.
My other takeaway from Super Tuesday is that the Republican Party is now on life support.
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Rubio already is facing that pressure from Trump and Cruz, who wants non-Trump voters to unite behind his campaign, which he claims is the only one that can confront and defeat the billionaire businessman. Rubio is third in the GOP delegate count. Meanwhile, in the Texas primary last night, Clinton beat Sanders among Hispanic voters by 34 points, according to exit polling. Even you will be very proud of me as a president. “Now it might be unusual, as I’ve said before, for a presidential candidate to say this, but I’m going to keep saying it, ‘I believe what we need in America today is more love and kindness”, she said. “Both have U.S. senators standing in their way – Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, Ted Cruz for the Republicans – but their parties” voters now seem increasingly prepared to send them into the fight for the White House.
