Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in IL on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, an outcome that up seemed obvious until a week ago but became uncertain in the days leading up to the race after her rival Sen.
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Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has won the crucial Republican primary contest in Florida but lost OH to Governor John Kasich in a mixed result that sets the stage for a long, bitter nominating fight.
On the Democratic side, Clinton won the Florida and OH primaries and with a win in North Carolina completed her sweep of Southern states where she has enjoyed strong support from African-American voters.
“We can’t lose what made America great in the first place, and this isn’t just about Donald Trump”, Clinton told supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The New York Times said Rubio’s exit had “spoiled the Republican buffet ” “.
Hillary Clinton took a monumental step toward clinching the Democratic party’s White House nomination, while Donald Trump’s seemingly unstoppable rush to victory hit a bump in Ohio. It’s worth noting, for example, that although she took 64 percent of the primary vote in Florida to Mr. Trump’s 46 percent, they got nearly the exact same number of votes.
Initial reports suggested that Clinton and Trump had leads in North Carolina where 72 delegates are at stake for the GOP.
Trump said on CNN that he thinks “you’d have riots” if he leads in pledged delegates heading into the convention, but the party denies him the nomination.
Two weeks ago, the U.S. had Super Tuesday, when around a dozen states had their primary votes to choose their party’s presidential nominee.
Trump said on Tuesday that his momentum was already drawing in establishment Republicans who had previously balked at his candidacy but now see him as the likely nominee. The Democrat seems to have accepted that Trump will be her opponent in the fall if she stays on course to win. He also picked up wins in North Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri.
‘Neither Cruz nor Trump can win the general election, ‘ he said this morning on Today. Trump garnered the majority of the votes, despite the severe protesting that occurred last weekend at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavillion.
Kasich drew cheers by predicting that Villanova could win the NCAA tournament, before launching into a folksy, student-focused speech that drew on his upbringing in McKee’s Rocks, Allegheny County and time as an undergraduate at Ohio State, before launching into a defense of small-government politics.
The main casualty on the night was Senator Marco Rubio whose poor showing in his home state of Florida has forced him to quit.
Kasich said, ‘He lived in OH, he came in here, he trashed me’.
It was a night which had some supporters on edge as they waited inside the campaign’s watch party at Baldwin-Wallace University’s Lou Higgins Rec Center.
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There are still 107 delegates left to be allocated.
