Find out what he now has to do to beat Mr. Trump. For his rivals, it’s about delegates.
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After he professed to have good relationships with the party elite, he warned House Speaker Paul Ryan, who declared earlier that “this party does not prey on people’s prejudices”, that if the two do not get along, Mr Ryan is “going to have to pay a big price”. Thank you for joining us.
Clinton’s campaign is confident the former secretary of state will do well in states like Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia, all states she has visited in the last few days.
She also won MA, picking up her first victory in Mr Sanders’ native New England.
Buoyed by his impressive wins in “Super Tuesday” primaries, a confidant Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is a “unifier” and can expand the Republican party if named presidential nominee as the frontrunner tried to make peace with party insiders deeply opposed to his candidature.
Donald Trump offered an olive branch to Republican party leaders who are deeply opposed to his presidential candidacy, making the case he can unify and grow the party. Rubio did get that win in Minnesota, but nowhere else.
Trump did not denounce Duke when asked about Duke’s support by CNN’s Jake Tapper, saying that he did not know much about Duke or white supremacist groups. Trump won 43 percent of the Republican vote in Alabama, double the amount of the second-place finisher, Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
For his part, Trump disputed the notion that he’s a divisive candidate and told supporters during a victory speech that the Republican Party would be more unified with him winning the nomination. Fifteen states in, he’s got 87 delegates by most accounts, while Donald Trump has 285 and Ted Cruz has 161.
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But that doesn’t faze Kasich, who says he will win Ohio’s March 15 primary and the large crowds he’s drawn at campaign events will turn into wins in other spring primaries. “When someone asks you, ‘Will you disavow the Ku Klux Klan?,’ just say yes and start high-fiving your future cabinet”. After a month of a series of primary elections which began with Iowa caucus on February 1, Trump to the surprise of political pundits and to the shock of the established party leadership has emerged as the presidential frontrunner.
