That margin may narrow in today’s contest, but because Clinton has fared well in states with racially diverse populations, and has campaigned vigorously in the state, her victory is all but assured. He is now within 84 delegates of frontrunner Donald Trump.
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“Ted should do well in ME, because it’s very close to Canada”, Trump said, jabbing at Cruz’s birthplace he has argued disqualifies him for the White House. Clinton needs to show that her winning coalition of voters extends beyond the South and into the Rust Belt.
The question? If Sanders loses MI with its 147 delegates, what is his logic in going forward?
Republicans were also holding a caucus Tuesday in Hawaii.
Tuesday’s contests marked another lost opportunity for rivals desperate to stop his march to the nomination.
“First, Donald Trump gave big bucks to Charlie Crist in 2010 and now he’s recycling the same false and negative attacks about Marco”, said Rubio spokesman Joe Pounder.
The delegates will be awarded proportionately, meaning a candidate can still pick up delegates if they finish in second or even third place, as long as they meet certain thresholds.
Ted Cruz’s victory in the smaller state of Idaho was not enough to blunt the Trump juggernaut, but keeps the USA senator for Texas as the prime alternative to the brash billionaire.
The robo-calls indeed are more about Trump than Rubio.
Beating a presidential candidate in his home state is a tall order.
Bernie Sanders, who took heat for saying white people don’t know what it’s like to be poor, did damage control. If Trump cleans up in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday, it could signal his populist message is catching on in the Rust Belt, setting him up well for neighboring Ohio. “Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich in any way he can”, the spokesperson told CNN.
The economy ranked high on the list of concerns for voters in MI and Mississippi. He said the move strikes him as “profoundly wrong” and is something “kings and queens demand” of their subjects.
That’s according to preliminary results of exit polls conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.
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Before major primaries in Florida and four other states March 15, MI looms as the next major battleground for both parties in contests scheduled March 8. But they’re quickly running out of options – and candidates -to prevent one of the men from becoming the Republican standard-bearer. It takes a majority of the delegates to win the nomination. Sanders sees the manufacturing states of the Midwest as a staging ground for a prolonged fight in which he hopes to regain momentum and erode the delegate lead Clinton has amassed.
