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Trump Shatters Unthinkable Milestone – Unbelievable Turn of Events!!
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They called it Super Tuesday 2; some people called it “3.” For Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton the number didn’t matter. The word “super” was good enough.
Trump continued his streak of success, for the most part, losing only in Ohio to the state’s governor, John Kasich. He won so convincingly in Florida that that the state’s own senator, Marco Rubio, who had once been anointed the future of the Republican Party, ended the night by suspending his campaign.
Rubio, who had more than once guaranteed that he would win Florida, was trounced instead.
“There’s nothing more than you could have done,” he told his supporters.
Rubio ended his speech, the last of a very public campaign, by keeping one gigantic secret: Which of the remaining candidates he would support.
He did have one last message “Do not give into the fear.”
No other candidate has garnered 50% of the national vote….this could be a game-changer!
TRUMP BREAKS 50% NATIONAL SUPPORT
After the dust had largely settled — razor-thin margins in Missouri have left open the possibility of a recount in both parties — delegate counts showed what results did: Clinton and Trump keep extending their leads.
Initial delegate allocation announced by the Missouri GOP gave Trump 37 and Cruz 15.
Trump held 661 pledged delegates at the end of the night, 265 more than his next closest competitor, Ted Cruz, and more than half of the 1,237 needed to win the nomination.
Clinton had 1,132 pledged delegates to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 818 along with a superdelegate lead of 467 to 26.
Speaking at his mansion, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, Donald Trump told supporters: “We have to bring our party together. We have something happening that is actually making the Republican Party the biggest political story in the world.”
It was a surprisingly low-key speech from a man who has made a name by speaking with grandiosity about his own penis and has spent months belittling his opponents.
Trump even praised Rubio, saying he ran a tough race.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton may have struck a mathematical knockout blow against her opponent, Sanders.
For Sanders to get enough delegates for the nomination, he would have to win 72 percent of the remaining delegates. He has better odds of getting taller.
She had decisive victories in Ohio and Florida, and with the delegates from those winner-take-all states, she now has roughly a 300-delegate lead over Sanders.
And that is just pledged delegates. The tally does not count the Super Delegates.
“This may be one of the most consequential campaigns of our lifetime,” said Clinton, speaking to her supporters, in a voice made raspy from campaigning.
She boasted that her campaign had won more votes than any candidate, Republican or Democrat, in the primary season. She cited what she said were three big challenges facing the next President:
“Can you make positive differences in people’s lives? Can you keep people safe? Can you bring our country together again?”
She got her biggest applause with a call for equal pay for equal work for women, and takes a dig at “overpaid corporate executives.”
The night was not a total loss for Sanders. He had a strong showing in Missouri.
And while he still has a tough road ahead, it is one that should be a bit more friendly to him than the South has been.
“The electorate looks different when you leave North Carolina,” says Martin Kifer, assistant professor of political science and director of the school’s Survey Research Center. (Ohio, which Clinton won decisively, looks a lot different, too.)
Jim Moore, from Oregon’s Pacific University, agrees that it will be easier for Sanders, but doesn’t think it will be enough.
For Sanders to get enough delegates for the nomination, he would have to win 72 percent of the remaining delegates. He has better odds of getting taller.
Clinton will just have to win roughly 58 percent of the remaining delegates.
“Bernie’’s in deep trouble,” says Moore. There are few places left where he might do well. The liberal enclaves of the East Coast and West Coast will not be nearly enough.”
11:00pm EST - Clinton holds narrow lead over Sanders in Illinois
Dennis Robaugh, from Patch’s Chicago bureau, reports that turnout was high around Chicago, but not necessarily because of the presidential primaries:
Voter turnout in Chicago was over 50 percent, according to the Chicago Election Board, and 26,000 new voters registered to vote on Primary Day. The surge in voter participation most likely could be attributed to the effort to oust the incumbent Democratic state’s attorney, Anita Alvarez, whose handling of police shooting cases has been criticized by activists and community groups.
Many of those who registered late also were young voters, and possibly could land in the Bernie Sanders column.
kWe’re staying up late; and will update with results as we get them. Currently, with 66% of the vote in, Clinton leads Sanders 51% to 48%.
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10:48pm EST – Ted Cruz pitches Rubio supporters
Ted Cruz, whose name has been mentioned fewer times tonight perhaps than any candidate still in the race, takes the stage before supporters to make a explicit pitch to Rubio supporters.
“For those who supported Marco, for those who worked so hard, we welcome you with open arms,” he said.
“The heart of our economy isn’t in Washington, D.C.,” Cruz said. “The heart of our economy is in small businesses across America.”
Cruz promised to repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, “reign in the E.P.A.,” and to stop amnesty and welfare for “all illegal immigrants.”
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10:32pm EST – Trump takes the stage at his mansion, Mar-a-Lago, after wins in FL, IL and NC
Trump speaks to supporters at his Florida home and touts the endorsements of Ben Carson and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
“We have to bring our party together,” he said. “We have something happening that is actually making the Republican party the biggest political story in the world.”
Trump invoked the Paris attacks as having inspired his campaign. “We need protection in our country, and all of a sudden the poll numbers shot up.”
“This country is going to start winning again,” he said. “We don’t win anymore.”
Trump promised to “knock the hell out of Isis,” and said the United States was “losing” in trade arrangements with countries from Mexico to China.
Trump decried what he said were $40 million of negative ads. “And my numbers went up,” he said.
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9:43pm EST – NBC calls Illinois for Donald Trump, adding to his tally
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9:40pm EST – Making sense of the results so far
Patch’s Colin Miner spoke to Jim Moore, professor of politics and government at Oregon’s Pacific University, for some mid-evening analysis of what the results so far mean for the race ahead.
“Bernie’s in deep trouble,” said Moore. “There are few places left where he might do well. Maybe on the left coast and maybe on the East Coast in some of those states.”
Moore says Sanders might have a chance in Oregon.
“California also,” he adds before changing his mind. “But there are a lot of unions there that really like Clinton and a lot of minorities.
“The liberal enclaves of the East Coast and West Coast all not be nearly enough.”
As for Kasich, Moore says Ohio is a good win but enough.
“He won but not by a tremendous amount,” Moore said. “And after winning his own state by not that much, where is Kasich?
“On the outside still looking in.”
The real winner on the Republican side, Moore says, may not be Trump but Cruz.
“This is beginning to look like ted Cruz firmly establishing himself as the alternative to Trump,” says Moore. “If he does well in the proportional states, he will have put himself in pretty good position.
“The question now is where do Rubio’s supporters go: Trump or Cruz? I don’t think they will go to Kasich without their candidate endorsing him.”
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9:22pm EST – Gov. John Kasich speaks to supporters in Ohio
Gov. John Kasich takes the stage before supporters in Ohio who helped deliver his home state. After a brief interruption from a heckler, the governor spoke:
Kasich campaigned on his record as governor, which in reality has not been as positive as he’s portrayed but has also been nowhere near as dismal as claimed by Trump, who told campaign rallies in Ohio that their state was a “disaster” an “embarrassment” and “dead.”
Kasich highlighted the 400,000 Ohio jobs created under his watch while state income taxes were cut, though wages and income have not kept pace with the nation’s, and the reduced state tax burdens were mostly shifted to localities.
Nevertheless, in a state seeing any rebound after decades of losses, mostly in the manufacturing sector, Kasich has been an enormously popular governor.
“To have people believe in you,” he told a crowd in Cleveland, pausing to compose himself, “I have to thank the people of the great state of Ohio. I love you.”
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9:20pm EST – Kasich strategist assesses the win in Ohio
Patch’s Tony Schinella spoke to John Weaver, the chief strategist for the Kasich effort.
He said the win in the Republican governor’s home state of Ohio created a “whole new ballgame” which had reset the race.
“Gov. Kasich positive message and proven record can overcome the Donald Trump insult machine,” he said. “With the electoral map shifting significantly in our favor, Gov. Kasich is positioned to accumulate a large share of the almost 1,000 remaining delegates and enter Cleveland in strong position to become the nominee.”
Weaver said the campaign’s internal data was showing Rubio’s voters moving to Kaisch by a three-to-one margin. The Florida Senator’s decision to end his campaign created a three-person race with no candidate winning the 1,237 delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot – but Kasich accumulating the largest share of the remaining delegates.
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9:01pm – Hillary Clinton takes the stage in West Palm Beach, FL on victorious night
Clinton, her voice raspy from campaigning, takes the podium just after 9pm EST, telling a frenzied crowd:
“This may be one of the most consequential campaigns of our lifetime.” She boasted that her campaign had won more votes than any candidate, Republican or Democrat, in the primary season.
She cited what she said were three big challenges facing the next President:
“Can you make positive differences in people’s lives? Can you keep people safe? Can you bring our country together again?”
She gets her biggest applause with a call for equal pay for equal work for women, and takes a dig at “overpaid corporate executives.”
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8:51pm EST – Kasich Wins his home state of Ohio
Multiple outlets are now calling Ohio for Gov. John Kasich, a result that buoys Sen. Ted Cruz by preventing a sweep for Donald Trump. Ohio stands behind the establishment candidates. Could this mark the high water mark of the populist surge in the 2016 campaign?
Patch’s Carly Baldwin asked Kelly Dittmar, an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University-Camden and also at Rutgers’ Eagleton Center for American Women and Politics, for an analysis.
“Kasich won Ohio because he’s been very popular both as a member of Congress and governor there. He invested a lot of money in Ohio , whereas Rubio did not invest enough in his home state of Florida,” she said. “His overall favorability in Ohio was higher than Rubio’s was statewide in Florida. He staked his candidacy on winning there today.”
“It’s not enough for him to win,” Dittmar said. “Numerically, Kasich still can’t win the nomination, he won’t have enough delegate votes. The only way he’s a threat is if he becomes a spoiler — that is, he prevents Trump from getting enough votes. This does not make Kasich a threat to Trump, it makes him a hurdle.”
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8:38pm EST – AP, NBC Call Ohio for Hillary Clinton
The Associated Press and NBC have gone with an early call of Ohio for Hillary Clinton. If the call holds, the victory would mean a historic and dominating day for Clinton. Secretary Clinton is expected to appear at the podium shortly.
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8:36pm EST – NBC calls North Carolina for Hillary Clinton
Patch’s Greg Hambrick has the results from North Carolina, where Hillary Clinton wins, as expected.
Sanders won among white voters, according to CNN, with 51 percent of the vote. But Clinton had far more support among African-Americans (81 percent), continuing a trend in the South. But a better demographic map awaits Sanders as the race moves West. “The electorate looks different when you leave North Carolina,” says Martin Kifer, assistant professor of political science and director of the school’s Survey Research Center.
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8:28pm EST – Meanwhile, Donald Trump Takes to Twitter
While Sen. Marco Rubio was speaking passionately to supporters about freedom, God and optimism, Donald Trump took to his favorite medium, the Twitter Box, to insult Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, with whom he has been fixated for months. Trump, rising to the occasion, (though we do agree with his fondness of local news…)
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TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeap!
If this is what the msm is reporting, I wonder if it is actually higher than that. To even question his eligibility as a nominee for president is actually quite insane. If anything is going to go down or get knocked out, I hope it will be Hilary. Unite America.