Clinton also won in Florida after having a massive lead over her sole rival Senator Bernie Sanders.
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And that has led some experts to wonder if Trump will fall short of 1,237 delegates he needs to win the GOP nod outright before the party’s convention in Cleveland in four months.
“I think there’s a natural healing process”, Trump told CNN’s Chris Cuomo following his Tuesday wins in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri.
“We are moving closer to securing the democratic party nomination and winning this election in November”, said Mrs Clinton, as she spoke to supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump was projected to capture victory in IL, where he was beating Cruz by 14 points, 40 percent to 26 percent, with 30 percent of precincts reporting.
Donald Trump says Republican senators who are trashing him in public are calling him in private because they want to “become involved” in his presidential campaign, eventually.
With 99 percent of precincts counted in Missouri, she led Sanders by 1,531 votes out of more than 626,000 cast.
Sen. Marco Rubio, who had been third in the delegate count, announced Tuesday he was suspending his campaign after a disappointing loss to Mr. Trump in Florida. However, the lack of a victory in OH, where all 66 delegates will go to Kasich, blocked him from the blowout that would have made him nearly unstoppable. Rubio said he would offer “a prayer” for the eventual GOP nominee, but did not suggest it would be Trump.
Donald Trump is the only candidate with a path to clinching the Republican nomination for president before the party’s national convention in July, according to an analysis of the delegate math.
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The winner-take-all states are Florida and OH, while the other states – Missouri, Ilinois and North Carolina – will divide delegates proportionally. We have to win, and as we win, people will forget, and they will feel better, and that’s the way life is. That leaves Kasich as the last true establishment candidate running against Trump and arch-conservative Texas Sen. But he said the Republicans include some who appear on the morning talk shows saying, “Donald Trump, we have to stop him”. John Kasich won OH – his home state. The self-described democratic socialist has won contests in New Hampshire, Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Kansas, Nebraska, Maine and most recently MI.
