Florida and OH, both big delegate states, will both be awarding all of their delegates to the overall victor in those states.
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Trump, who has so far won primaries and caucuses in 14 states is said to be the favourite in Florida, North Carolina, Illinois and Missouri, while in OH he is locked in a neck-and-neck fight with Kasich. Ted Cruz is also ahead of Rubio by a few percentage points. Marco Rubio are both well behind.
Conservative Solutions, a pro-Rubio group, has spent more than $1 million opposing Kasich in Florida.
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During an event Monday in Tampa, Mr Trump was interrupted intermittently by protesters, some of whom were forcibly removed. The front-runner is also under scrutiny for appearing to encourage his supporters to physically confront those protesters, deepening divisions within the Republican Party.
“I think the candidates need to take responsibility for the environment at their events”, Ryan said during an interview Monday with WRJN, a radio station in Racine, Wisconsin.
“There is never an excuse for condoning violence, or even a culture that presupposes it”, Ryan told WRJN, a radio station in Racine, Wisconsin. In short, it could be the day Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton widen their leads. Unfortunately for him, right now it’s all but mathematically impossible for him to become the Republican nominee by getting to 50 percent of the delegates in primaries – but that’s true no matter what happens in Ohio.
PredictWise, which analyzes prediction markets, puts the OH governor’s chances of winning his home state’s GOP contest at 63%, well above rival Donald Trump’s 34%.
The former GOP Speaker of the Michigan House raised some eyebrows when he was the first notable Republican in the state to endorse Donald Trump. In an all-out effort to stop a Trump nomination, Rubio has told his OH supporters to cast their votes for Kasich.
Romney has said he expects to endorse a candidate later this month, if a clear alternative candidate to Trump emerges. If Rubio and Kasich each carry their home states, and Cruz cuts into Trump’s lead or overtakes him in IL and Missouri, he can maintain or close the gap between him and the frontrunner.
The day is finally here: today is the presidential primary election in the state of Ohio. Say, sir, one difference between this and a Donald Trump rally is I’m not asking anyone to punch you in the face.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also still hopes to blunt Trump’s momentum. That speaks to the strength of Trump’s support: Kasich is very popular as governor in OH, where his approval rating is 66 percent.
His comment was a reference to a previous statement by Trump that he could shoot someone on the famous Manhattan street and not lose support.
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Among the Democrats, Hillary Clinton carries an edge of more than 200 pledged delegates into Tuesday’s contests and could effectively block rival Bernie Sanders’ path to victory with a sweep of the large states on Tuesday.
