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Clinton wins three states as Trump knocks Rubio out in Florida – live
Primary day live: Trump poised for big night as Clinton leaps ahead of Sanders
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The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino is in the hall with Clinton:
Ted Cruz calls Marco Rubio “a friend and colleague who ran an optimistic campaign”:
.@HillaryClinton says she will bring her delegate lead to more than 300 by the end of the nigh #supertuesday
Cruz statement on Rubio dropping out pic.twitter.com/8PoZjItSyL
.@HillaryClinton compliments @berniesanders on a "vigorous" campaign.
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Clinton’s voice is hoarse. She says that more people have voted for her so far this cycle than any other candidate.
Here’s the reception at the Kasich party:
And the whole crowd boos Hillary's Ohio win, so they turn off CNN and turn up Don't Stop Believing... And then turn up the news again.
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Clinton: 'We are moving closer to securing the Democratic party nomination'
Clinton addresses supporters and says ‘our delegate lead [was stretched] roughly 300”:
We are moving closer to securing the Democratic party nomination and winning this election in November,” she says.
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The Guardian’s Megan Carpentier is at Kasich’s party:
Shouts and cheers as CNN calls it for Kasich. pic.twitter.com/fO4vXQjbRN
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Kasich wins Ohio
Ohio governor John Kasich has prevailed in his home state, the AP projects.
It’s Kasich’s first win of the race – it allows him to stay in – and in a fell swoop he more than doubles his delegate total. He had only 63 delegates going into the night. In Ohio he picked up 66.
With Kasich winning Ohio, this is now the song of the night and of the month of July https://t.co/rVOUj0QuhE
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Lucia Graves
Lucia Graves
In one of the most consequential moves of the night, Ohio has been called for Hillary Clinton. It’s a huge win for the Clinton camp that could put this race out of reach for Bernie Sanders.
Hillary Clinton is campaigning in the general election again. After Bernie Sanders gave her a surprise scare with his big win in Michigan last week, Clinton was forced back into the ring with Sanders. But as she took the stage Tuesday night after decisive wins in Florida, North Carolina and the all-important Ohio, she was cheerful and chatty and talking largely past Sanders.
After Sanders grabbed a surprise victory in Michigan last week, Berners were hoping his messaging on trade in particular would help him pull another victory in the slightly whiter but still manufacturing-heavy state of Ohio, where many jobs have been automated or sent overseas.
Instead, most of her barbs were aimed straight for the likely Republican nominee, and particularly his propensity to propel forward bigotry and hate. Not that she was above mocking Donald Trump: America’s commander in chief, she said, “needs to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it”. She also touched on the violence that’s featured so prominently in his recent rallies.
Now the verdict is in: no dice.
Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, has already turned his attention elsewhere – he’s in Arizona, which votes next week. Those plans were laid before the results came in. And after a bad night for him in Ohio and beyond, the message is clear: they’re going to continue on regardless.
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For some time, Sanders has been promising to take his campaign all the way to the convention. And even after the setbacks of tonight – which the campaign is hopeful will be softened as results keep coming in – he appears poised to soldier on. Next stop? Idaho, according to a campaign update sent 40 minutes after the last polls closed.
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Ohio governor John Kasich is talking to CNN on the phone on the strength of the network having called the state for him.
CNN is ahead of the wave on Ohio, with neither the Associated Press nor other outlets having declared a Kasich win. The Guardian is not yet declaring a Kasich win in Ohio.
But there’s Kasich, talking on the phone about Pennsylvania tomorrow, and Colorado, and Maryland, and California...
“This is the little engine that can,” Kasich said. “For those people who like the underdog... it’s pretty cool.”
Stay tuned.
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Cruz camp sees favorable winds coming
Ben Jacobs
In an interview with reporters before Marco Rubio dropped out, Ted Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe weighed in on the race in an interview with Guardian political reporter Ben Jacobs:
Roe thought Cruz would be in good shape if Trump’s delegate lead was kept to around 275 after tonight, with his win in Florida.
The astute operative said Kasich’s continued presence in the race was “a jumpball” as far as they were concerned. On one hand, it meant the Ohio governor had kept Donald Trump from earning 66 delegates in Ohio. On the other, it mean that the anti-Trump vote in the party would continue to be divided.
Roe added that with most of the coming contests being closed primaries, which only allow Republicans to participate, his candidate would be in strong shape in even nominally liberal states on the east coast like Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
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Lucia Graves
Marco Rubio is just 44 years old and, if he sounded like he was paving the the way for future ambitions as he eloquently announced the suspension of his presidential campaign, perhaps he was.
Rubio has reportedly been laying the groundwork to end his campaign with grace for some time, increasingly using his time in the spotlight to highlight not his own candidacy but offer to offer a sophisticated critique of America in the age of Trump. And as he announced the suspension of his presidential campaign Tuesday night, that continued.
The country is “in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami,” he told supporters. But he wasn’t blaming voters or even the media – rather, it fell almost entirely on the political establishment, which he said “for far too long has taken the votes of political conservatives for granted”. No longer: these are Trumpian times.
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Here’s an instant replay of Clinton winning Ohio:
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Sanders: onwards to ... Idaho
Cruz camp: 'mathematically impossible' for Kasich
Dan Roberts
Here’s what Ted Cruz’s chief strategist thinks of Kasichs’ speech:
With Bernie Sanders getting crushed not just in Florida and North Carolina, but possibly too in Ohio, his ever-upbeat team just issued a press release announcing a new rally in... Idaho, writes Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts:
And so Kasich celebrates his win in #OH. Good. Doesn't change fact mathematically impossible for him to win the nomination. #CruzCrew
The state, which votes on March 22, only has 27 delegates. But it’s a brave display of determination by a campaign that insists it will keep campaigning all the way to the Democratic nomination.
Kasich would only need something like 85% of all remaining delegates. Uphill climb for sure!
Tonight, they are in Phoenix, Arizona, another state that votes next week, but if Sanders loses two, or even three of the Midwest battlegrounds he was contesting tonight, it will be hard to keep arguing that the map will eventually turn in their favour.
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Instead, the strategy of heading west looks more and more like the behaviour of a political movement than a political campaign.
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Kasich: 'all the way to Cleveland'
Kasich does not appear to have much of a nailed-down travel schedule, judging from his own description. “Tomorrow I’m going to Philadelphia. And then I’m going, I don’t know, all over the country!” he says.
“This is all I got, OK? This is all I got,” Kasich says, grabbing his jacket. Then he comes up with an applause line:
We are gonna go all the way to Cleveland and secure the Republican nomination.
Kasich declares that he is going to go all the way to Cleveland. He is currently in a Cleveland suburb
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A Kasich strategist tips his hat to the Rubio campaign:
Kasich is paying tribute to people who make sacrifices for other people. Nurses who work an extra 15 minutes when they’re dead on their feet. Teachers who take less pay to change lives. And people who take widows out to dinner: “She’ll put on that dress she hasn’t worn for six months.”
@marcorubio ran an aspirational, uplifting campaign. America needs his optimism and his voice will be heard again.
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A few senate races of import sorting out a bit tonight:
Clinton wins Ohio
Democrats chose their nominees in 3 crucial Senate races: —Ted Strickland (OH), a former Governor—Tammy Duckworth (IL)—Deborah Ross (NC)
Hillary Clinton is the projected winner of Ohio – she’s three for three so far, and the Ohio result is a big one, against concerns that Sanders’ Michigan upset last week would expand south.
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“I want to remind you tonight that I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land,” Kasich says.
Big applause line.
Man alive, Kasich sounds nothing like any of the other Republicans. Not sure that is a good thing or not.
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Here’s an instant replay of John Kasich winning Ohio. Notice that Trump ran strong in the Appalachia counties, Kasich in the urban centers.
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The Guardian’s Megan Carpentier is in the Kasich room and gets a pic of the pro-Trump protester:
The Trump supporter, red hat and all, who interrupted Kasich's speech. pic.twitter.com/lCHUhiyB3F
The protester was saying “he needs to understand that he needs to drop out and make way for the real candidate”, Megan reports.
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Kasich asks for applause for a “very talented and fine United States senator, Marco Rubio.” There’s applause.
Kasich is narrating a trip to a restaurant. People started to cheer. He asked them not to because “you’re gonna make me cry.”
