Trump won the critical state of Florida, forcing the state’s US senator, Marco Rubio, out of the race.
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Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton too scored major wins in Florida and North Carolina and in a crucial victory, she stopped self-styled Democratic Socialist rival Bernie Sanders in his tracks in the industrial Midwest by taking Ohio.
After Tuesday’s vote in five states, the race for the president is coming into clearer focus.
Clinton’s team is attempting to tamp down expectations for Tuesday night, stressing that the race remains close in the Midwest, despite public polling showing her with a sizable lead.
He said he ran “a campaign to be a president that loves all the American people, even the ones who don’t love you back. Also, a Trump victory in both states would add to his delegate majority and he could become the presumptive nominee. Sen.
Kasich won his home-state of OH, getting all 66 delegates.
With Marco Rubio out and Donald Trump still winning big, there’s only one real way the GOP will keep the nomination from Trump. He is followed by Cruz (396), Rubio (168) and Kasich (138).
” It is unlikely that anybody is going to achieve enough delegates to avoid a convention”, Kasich said. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and lost millennials in OH to incumbent Gov. John Kasich (R).
Donald Trump had a prediction Wednesday for what would happen if he makes it to the Republican National Convention in July just a few votes shy of winning the party’s presidential nomination outright and ends up losing a contested convention.
But Trump doesn’t expect it to get that far.
Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton takes selfies with supporters before speaking during a rally at Cuyahoga Community College Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Cleveland. He steamrolled through Florida, North Carolina, and IL, according to the Associated Press.
With Tuesday’s primary win the number of Clinton’s delegates rose to 1,561 (467 of them super delegates), versus Sanders’ 800 (26 of them super delegates). The win – gives Kasich momentum.
Donald Trump will win the Illinois Republican primary, CNN projects. Kasich, it suggested, “is the best of the remaining three candidates, but has little to no chance of pulling past either of the other two in the delegate count”.
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