More than 130,000 Alaska residents were registered as Republicans last week, and the state GOP leaders said they were printing more ballots this year because of an expected large turnout.
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The roller-coaster victories coupled with lead in national polls have unnerved the Republican establishment.
But Ted Cruz ended Mr Trump’s winning streak with victories in his home state of Texas and neighbouring Oklahoma. Florida Senator Marco Rubio, the establishment’s favorite, won only in Minnesota and lost to Trump by a narrow margin in Virginia.
Analysts say after his big wins on Super Tuesday, Trump has the inside track to the Republican presidential nomination – a fact with which Graham and others in the party are still struggling.
Trump at a news conference celebrating his victory again disavowed Duke.
Trump and Clinton turned their sights on each other after their Super Tuesday wins, with Trump promising to “go after” Clinton and the former secretary of state decrying what she called Trump’s divisive rhetoric.
The candidates face a series of caucuses this weekend, and primaries in MI and MS on Tuesday. “If I’m going to win all of these states with tremendous numbers, and if I’m going to come in the worst is second in the two or three that I might not win, we’re a democracy”. Cruz collected at least 144 delegates and Rubio picked up at least 71. The newest CNN/ORC polls gives Clinton a 55 percent to 38 percent lead over Sanders nationally. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the GOP nomination…. “I ask you to prayerfully consider our coming together, united”, he said. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took enough states on Tuesday night to stay competitive in their respective races.
“[Voters] see Trump as the anti-Obama”, Graham said.
“I like John Kasich, but no one is doing more to elect Donald Trump than Kasich is right now”, said Curt Anderson, who previously ran Bobby Jindal’s campaign. With strong support from low-income white voters, especially those without college degrees, he dominated in moderate, secular-leaning MA just as easily as he did in the conservative and heavily evangelical Deep South.
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Rubio’s disappointing defeat in states like Virginia, however, did little to stop his campaign’s momentum. “We have to make America whole”, Clinton, who has built up a delegate cushion over her insurgent rival Bernie Sanders, said.
