Overall though, it still ended up being a very good night for Trump, as he picked up wins in North Carolina and IL that could still give him plenty of delegates to make up for the OH loss. “It’s an incredible thing”, Trump said.
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On her side, Clinton built on her already significant delegate lead, even more lopsided when the party insiders known as superdelegates are added to the equation.
A win in the statewide vote nets Clinton an additional two delegates. Where we are at this moment, however, Mr. Trump is the only candidate who would be eligible, since he so far is the only one who has won a majority of delegates from at least eight states.
An apparent Donald Trump supporter interrupted the beginning of GOP presidential candidate John Kasich’s victory speech in Ohio.
Mr. Rubio was trounced-trounced!-in his home state of Florida, losing to business mogul Donald Trump by almost 20 points and 440,000 votes.
“I’m not going to be anybody’s vice president”.
Marco Rubio came in last in every state but his own on Super Tuesday 3, despite spending about twice as much on TV advertising as all of his Republican rivals combined.
Even House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., did not rule out the idea of being drafted by the party at the convention.
“We have to bring our party together”, he said. “We are seeing in America these bad rallies occurring where the people are becoming violent”.
Cruz insisted that if Kasich stays in the race he will only help Trump. Clinton also defeated Bernie Sanders by less than one-half of 1 percent, or 1,531 votes, the office reported.
Cruz, who remains the second-biggest Republican delegate holder, all but ignored Kasich and framed the contest as a two-man race based on ideology and electability.
“These are people who haven’t voted, because they didn’t believe in the system, or didn’t like candidates”. That means Clinton and Sanders are likely to fairly evenly split the total.
In fact, a snapshot survey from Morning Consult found that Cruz should benefit most from Rubio’s exit.
An ebullient Kasich held up his victory in OH as the last chance for a GOP establishment that has been torn asunder to marshal its forces behind a candidate, as he put, that can “make you proud”. “I don’t know what you do at the convention with 150 delegates”. “We are going to go all the way to Cleveland and secure the Republican nomination”.
“He worked hard, he fought hard, and I think he resigned with grace, and I think we’ll still see him in the future”. He spent heavily trying to win OH, as well as contests in IL and Missouri, but he came away with his presidential bid looking increasingly hopeless, since Mrs Clinton is far ahead in amassing delegates needed to win the nomination.
A burst of confetti then rained down on him, presenting the not-so-subtle image of a presidential nominee accepting his party’s nomination.
Her win in North Carolina completed her sweep of Southern states where she has enjoyed strong support from African-American voters. Delegates who could be free to cast votes elsewhere after a first ballot may be intimidated into sticking with Trump.
Clinton kept up her large margins with black voters, a crucial group for Democrats in the general election.
Clinton is pointing to the general election, telling reporters in Raleigh, North Carolina, that she thinks it’s important that she focuses on “the really unsafe path that Donald Trump has laid out”.
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He said that his support of the Senate’s 2013 comprehensive overhaul of immigration and border laws was clearly unpopular with some voters, but was not decisive in knocking him from the field given that a dozen other candidates with more conservative positions on the issue dropped out before him.
