Those voters helped Clinton win the South Carolina Democratic primary handily with 8 in 10 voting for her, and are expected to make a difference for Clinton throughout the South.
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“There is no doubt that if Donald steam rolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable”, Cruz said Sunday on CBS. Mr Rubio would gain 50 per cent of the votes versus Ms Clinton’s 47 per cent – unchanged since January. “On Super Tuesday we are running neck-and-neck with Donald in Super Tuesday states”.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are positioned to solidify their status as presidential front-runners in Virginia when Republicans and Democrats cast ballots in the state’s primary on Tuesday.
Caucuses are local meetings of registered party members organized by the state party. Clinton has the advantage in six states, all with a higher percentage of nonwhite voters, which account for nearly all the remaining delegates at stake: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Menendez defeated Martinez Fischer in a special runoff election in February 2015 by 4,256 votes. Carson, whose polling numbers have faded in recent months, continued to fend off questions about when he will drop out. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to carry the state in a presidential race (and Al Gore’s inability to carry his home state in 2000 cost him the election). Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Tex.
Independent voter Tyler Murphy, a 26-year-old Boston resident who works as a project manager for a construction company, said he voted for Trump. “The tenor of the Republican campaign has been completely different from what we’ve seen in prior Republican presidential campaigns”.
“What we can’t let happen is the scapegoating, the flaming, the finger pointing that is going on the Republican side”, she told voters in Springfield, Massachusetts.
He took to Reddit this week to encourage voters to go the polls in a bid to swing the results on 1 March, telling social media users: “You have always supported me since this campaign first began, and for that, I thank you”. Watch the more moderate, highly educated D.C. suburbs and exurbs for hints on who might emerge as the victor.
Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are clinging to the hope that they could win their own states on March 15, when contests start to become victor take-all affairs, and eventually overhaul Trump’s delegate total. Democrats in Colorado and American Samoa will hold their contests as well, and Republicans in Alaska will host their caucuses. But New York congressman Peter King excoriated him over how he responded to receiving the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
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Sanders has a significant deficit in support from superdelegates, the 712 elected officials and party leaders who are unpledged and can support the candidate they wish. The crossfire between Trump and establishment Republicans threatens to rip the party apart at a time when it will need to generate momentum behind a prospective nominee, a prospect that concerns some Republican strategists looking ahead to the nominating convention in July.
