Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of big primary wins on Tuesday, as the two presidential front-runners looked to take command of their party nominating battles on the 2016 campaign’s biggest night of voting.
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An apparent favorite of Republican leadership, Rubio has yet to turn endorsements and big donations into outright state victories – although he had won 16 delegates going into Super Tuesday, compared to Cruz’s 17.
Just as easily as Trump won the Republican nomination here, so did Hillary Clinton, who took a decisive 55 percent of the vote, leaving Bernie Sanders with 43 percent. The Associated Press says he won Alabama, Massachusetts, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee.
Super Tuesday was the biggest single day of state-by-state contests to select party nominees for the November 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.
Here’s a list of states voting in Super Tuesday.
Colvin reported from Palm Beach, Florida. Colorado, Minnesota and Alaska Republicans were holding contests with results expected later.
Striking a noticeable contrast with Trump, her possible general election rival, she smiled as she argued “I believe what we need in America today is more love and kindness”.
Super Tuesday will have a large impact on the GOP presidential nomination process.
“This country belongs to all of us, not just those at the top”, she said, adding – in an apparent swipe against Trump – that the goal was not to “make America great again” but to “make America whole again”. “JFK told us not to ask what our country could do for us but to ask what we could do for our country”, he said.
“She has been the one who has stepped out to at least try to identify with most of the minorities, whether they’re women, black, Asian, Hispanic”, said Lewis, a 31-year-old receptionist at her mother’s dental office. Dr. Ben Carson follows with 10 percent supporter, trailed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 6 percent.
Although going into Super Tuesday Cruz’s campaign was ready to go either way, after coming in strong seconds all night, his campaign seems to have caught a second wind. Neither has yet won an early state.
Last month, Trump won the Republican primary in neighboring New Hampshire by a massive 19-point margin.
“So long as the field remains divided Donald Trump path to the nomination remains more likely”, Cruz said at his rally.
Cruz told his supporters that Trump was a “Washington dealmaker, profane and vulgar, who has a lifelong pattern of using government power for personal gain”, and argued that he was the only Republican able to beat him.
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Obviously, losing to Donald Trump is bad news for every other Republican candidate.
