Super Tuesday: Trump And Clinton Eye Big Wins

Rubio saw increased support among Republican voters after a strong debate performance last week during which he took off the gloves against Trump.

Democrats were voting in 11 states and American Samoa; Republicans were voting in 11 states.

On Tuesday evening, Cruz will address his supporters at the colorfully named Redneck Country Club in Sugar Land, Texas when the results of the so called SEC primary become clear.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could make huge strides toward their party’s nominations Tuesday as a dozen states vote in primaries and caucuses on the most consequential day yet in the presidential race.

“By the end of tonight, we are going to win many hundreds of delegates”, he told a roaring, adoring crowd in his home state.

His campaign strategy focuses on winning delegates district by district, rather than a statewide win.

The billionaire even claimed he could win NY, the traditionally Democratic state that Mrs Clinton represented as a USA senator. Her victory there was due to overwhelming support from black voters, putting her in position for a strong showing in several Southern states with large African-American electorates that vote Tuesday. In each of those states, about a third of Democratic voters or less want a switch to more liberal policies.

His main rivals, Florida Sen. Now the Cruz campaign’s future hinges on a victory in his home state of Texas, the biggest prize up for grabs. MA has 91 delegates, Oklahoma 38 and Sanders’ home state of Vermont has only 16.

“Our country is so unbelievably divided”, Trump told a rally in a Columbus plane hangar. “It is about transforming America”.

The early wins – in addition to the ones expected later in the night – put the businessman well on his way to collecting the number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination (1,237).

Clinton’s 47 percentage-point win over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders helped calm doubts about her candidacy after close contests in early voting states. Bernie Sanders in SC on Saturday.

Rubio, who describes Trump as a “con artist” and has said he will not abandon his bid, acknowledged on Twitter that “the stakes couldn’t be higher”.

Cruz, speaking to reporters before casting his ballot in Houston, did not wait for the results to roll in before signaling that he will try to nudge Rubio and Kasich out of the race.

“What Donald is benefiting from is a fractured opposition”, he said, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Trump’s top-broadcast ad in the past 10 days also is on air in Texas, along with Arkansas, Virginia and Tennessee. “I was a Democrat in the state Legislature for 20 years”.

“I intend to be in this race as long as it takes to prevent someone like Donald Trump who is not a conservative and is a con man from taking over the conservative movement and the party of Reagan”, Rubio told Fox News on Monday. Half of Vermont Democrats said they want the next president’s policies to be more liberal than Barack Obama’s – far more than in any other state voting Tuesday.

The Appellate Division on Tuesday unanimously rejected Trump’s request to dismiss the 2013 suit.

Sanders is making clear that despite the size of his defeat in SC – equal to almost 50% of the vote – he is nowhere near giving up his campaign, though the candidate himself appears to have rock-bottom expectations in the South.

The former reality television star who has turned American politics upside down with his outsider campaign, nationwide media blitz and crusade against political correctness, is going into Super Tuesday with his polling hitting new peaks.

“Tomorrow there will be 700 delegates up for deciding”.

“Right now we are in a very risky place”, said former Minnesota Sen.

The ad goes on to highlight Trump comments on abortion, Planned Parenthood and Hillary Clinton that Republican voters might not like.

“If this were a primary, I’d be very confident she’d be victorious decisively”.