Democrats with pledged superdelegates: Clinton, 1,630; Sanders, 870.
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Even Trump, for all of his supreme confidence and frequent flights of hyperbole, is raising questions now about whether he can clinch the Republican nomination before the July convention.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton register net negative ratings in double digits, indicating the front-runners for each party’s presidential nominations are viewed negatively at historic levels, according to a new CBS/New York Times poll.
The Democratic presidential candidate is condemning the attacks in Brussels.
While there may not be as many delegates at stake on Tuesday as the original Super Tuesday or the redux last week, there are important races on both the Democratic and Republican sides on March 22 as Bernie Sanders tries to climb back into the race and Donald Trump looks to shut the door on any hopes his competitors have of a comeback.
She spoke with Wisconsin reporters as the Sanders team opens a few campaign offices in the state.
Why the disparity between party results in Utah results? In addition to Henry Silver and Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight, the experts included Steve Hayward’s friend Henry Olsen, Patrick Ruffini, a star of the Bush-Cheney reelection effort in 2004, David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, Adam Geller, Chris Christie’s lead pollster, and two others with whom I am not familiar. Both models project that Trump will earn less than 15 percent of the vote. But the survey conducted March 7-11 by longtime Arizona pollster Bruce Merrill showed almost a third of voters remained undecided.
Only registered Republicans, Democrats and Green Party members can vote in the primary.
To that end, Cruz is pulling out all the stops.
Graham, who dropped his own bid for the White House before the Iowa caucus and previously supported former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s candidacy, is now backing Cruz over Donald Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
On the Democratic side, Sen.
While it is confident it can win Utah, Cruz’s campaign is less certain of its chances in Arizona, where early voting has been going on since February 24.
More states are voting today, a.k.a. Western Tuesday, in presidential primaries and caucuses – find out how to watch live results online as they come in tonight. But Trump could walk away from Utah with no delegates, putting the GOP nod farther out of his reach. Large states tend to have bigger black and Latino populations.
It’s a critical hedge against Arizona, a state where the victor takes all 58 delegates – no matter the final percentages – and where polls have shown Trump running stronger.
“Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is likely to do well in Utah, a conservative state that prizes civility and religiosity”.
The key for Cruz on Tuesday was winning at least 50% of the vote, which would entitle him to all of Utah’s delegates.
For voters who are supporting a candidate but have “reservations”, Cruz leads the pack: An average of 33 percent said they support Cruz “with reservations”, while another 32 percent said they supported Trump but also had reservations.
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Pre-election polls show the former first lady with a double-digit lead in Arizona going into Tuesday’s voting, boosted by Hispanic support and a closed primary system that may not favor Sanders and his independent supporters.
