Ted Cruz, who has predicted he’d win all the needed delegates, is running second in the overall delegate count. US Republican front-runner Donald Trump warned today of riots if he is denied the party’s presidential nomination after a string of primary election victories.
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Sanders is unlikely to overtake Clinton in the delegate count, but his victory last week in MI underscored the unease that many Democratic voters have about her candidacy.
But, he said in a subsequent interview on MSNBC: “We don’t want to lose the edge”. He said he’s hopeful there is still time to prevent Trump from getting the Republican nomination, which he hopes will go to Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Trump led the way through his win in Florida, North Carolina and Illinois, Philly Voice reported.
Trump’s landslide victory in Florida knocked rival Marco Rubio, a US Senator from that state and a foreign policy hawk, out of the White House race.
Trump’s latest wins come amid growing concern within the Republican Party about his incendiary rhetoric. Affable and seemingly relaxed on the campaign trail, he has largely refrained from attacking his opponents, projecting a relentlessly positive image that set him apart from his combative rivals.
Florida and OH are particularly important in the race for the Republican nomination because the winning candidate gets all of the delegates on offer – 99 in Florida and 66 in Ohio. I’m still not convinced Trump will win.
The Associated Press said it was not declaring a victor there for now because it was so close.
Kasich has won no other states and lags far behind Trump and Cruz in delegates.
Announcing he was suspending his campaign, he said the USA was in the middle of a “political storm”, and voters were angry and frustrated. “We’ll see. Who knows?”
After the most divisive United States campaign in almost half a century, one that has shattered all rules of decorum and aroused an angry electorate, it remains unclear whether Trump can unite his party in time for the Republican convention in Cleveland in July.
Cruz is in better position than Kasich, but he too faces a daunting mathematical challenge after losing four of five contests Tuesday.
The other important storyline was whether Bernie Sanders could pull off another upset victory in OH like he did in MI, both states where manufacturing jobs are vanishing and his message condemning US foreign trade deals has gone over well. Sanders has at least 800.
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“We are moving closer to securing the Democratic Party nomination and winning this election in November”, she said in a speech in West Palm Beach, Fla. Cruz has 406 and Kasich 142.
