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Primary day live: Trump poised for big night as Clinton leaps ahead of Sanders Trump and Clinton win big as Kasich takes Ohio and Rubio drops out – live
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Ted Cruz calls Marco Rubio “a friend and colleague who ran an optimistic campaign”: Trump wraps. No questions tonight.
Cruz statement on Rubio dropping out pic.twitter.com/8PoZjItSyL 2.13am GMT
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01:33 Guardian Washington correspondent David Smith is in the Trump room, which looks like this:
Lucia Graves Trump addressing packed ballroom. pic.twitter.com/FHsioWdH4L
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. 2.12am GMT
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. 02:12
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. Trump has a shout-out for his campaign manager, the target of a criminal battery complaint in North Carolina:
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. Trump tells Corey Lewandowski "good job Corey."
Lewandowski on stage after manhandling a reporter, lying about it, & smearing her. Score another for lowered standards. #goodjobCorey
2.10am GMT
02:10
Trump congratulates Rubio
Trump “I want to congratulate Marco Rubio on running a really tough campaign... he’s got a great future.”
He says he has received more negative advertising than anyone in the history of politics.
“Mostly false. I wouldn’t say 100% but 90%.”
“You explain it to me, because I can’t. My numbers went up. I don’t understand it. Nobody understands it.”
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Cruz camp: 'mathematically impossible' for Kasich Trump is rambling about how nobody expected him to run. “There is great anger, believe me, there is great anger.”
Here’s what Ted Cruz’s chief strategist thinks of Kasichs’ speech: We believe him.
And so Kasich celebrates his win in #OH. Good. Doesn't change fact mathematically impossible for him to win the nomination. #CruzCrew Where are the steaks? Instead of steaks and wine this time we get Corey and Eric.
Kasich would only need something like 85% of all remaining delegates. Uphill climb for sure! “They’re not angry people, but they want to see the country properly run. They want to see borders. They want to see good health care. They want our military rebuilt. And they want the second amendment by the way protected and protected strongly.”
1.31am GMT “Our veterans are treated so badly.”
01:31 “Something happened called Paris... Paris was a disaster. .. and it just goes on and on and on.”
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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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.” Trump says if he’s elected president, Apple won’t make anything in China.
1.27am GMT “I want to pay my respects by the way to Todd Palin... He was in a very bad accident. He’s tough as nails, he’ll be fine. I just want to pay my respects to Todd.
01:27 “Yeah, sit down, everybody, please!”
A few senate races of import sorting out a bit tonight: 2.00am GMT
Democrats chose their nominees in 3 crucial Senate races: —Ted Strickland (OH), a former Governor—Tammy Duckworth (IL)—Deborah Ross (NC) 02:00
1.26am GMT Trump thanks his 9-year-old son for never seeing him:
01:26 “I want to thank Barron for the fact that I never see him anymore. And it’s his birthday on Sunday.”
“I want to remind you tonight that I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land,” Kasich says. 1.59am GMT
Big applause line. 01:59
Man alive, Kasich sounds nothing like any of the other Republicans. Not sure that is a good thing or not. Trump is flanked onstage by campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and son Eric. The Trumps are in pink ties. Lewandowski’s yellow. Very Florida.
Updated Trump thanks his family after some poll talk.
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01:24 Trump: “Northern Marianas Islands have been so incredible. And we picked up nine delegates, that’s a lot.”
Here’s an instant replay of John Kasich winning Ohio. Notice that Trump ran strong in the Appalachia counties, Kasich in the urban centers. 1.58am GMT
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The Guardian’s Megan Carpentier is in the Kasich room and gets a pic of the pro-Trump protester: 01:57
The Trump supporter, red hat and all, who interrupted Kasich's speech. pic.twitter.com/lCHUhiyB3F 1.57am GMT
The protester was saying “he needs to understand that he needs to drop out and make way for the real candidate”, Megan reports. 01:57
1.21am GMT Trump addresses supporters
01:21 Here’s Trump at Mar-a-Largo. Three wins tonight so far, one loss – and the Missouri result to come.
Kasich asks for applause for a “very talented and fine United States senator, Marco Rubio.” There’s applause. 1.56am GMT
Kasich is narrating a trip to a restaurant. People started to cheer. He asked them not to because “you’re gonna make me cry.” 01:56
He thanks Ohioans. “I love ya,” he says. Trump wins Illinois
The crowd likes him a lot. Trump has just been projected the winner of Illinois by AP, his third win of the night. Illinois Republicans will award 69 delegates proportionally.
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Trump projected to win North Carolina
Donald Trump has won the Republican primary in North Carolina, the Associated Press projects.
Note that the state awards its 72 Republican delegates proportionally, and so margin matters – and it appears to have been a close race.
1.51am GMT
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Hugger Man. Definitely.
OK bets for what Trump will call Kasich in this speech. Losin' John? Cryin' Kasich? Hugger Man?
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Mona Chalabi
As we’re waiting for the Missouri results to come in, it’s worth remembering this was tonight’s least predictable primary. Only two Democratic polls have been conducted there this year, and only one poll has asked Republican voters who they prefer – those surveys suggested that Sanders and Clinton would be neck-and-neck and that Trump would be ahead of the Republican field (which so far appears true - but only by a whisker).
With 52 Republican delegates (distributed on a winner takes all basis) and 84 Democratic delegates available in Missouri, this will be an interesting primary.
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Race updates: Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina
What’s happening in Missouri, Illinois, and the North Carolina Republican race?
Our live results page is chugging along here.
With 30% reporting in the Illinois Democrats race, Clinton is up 53-47.
With 30% reporting in the Illinois GOP race, Trump is up 40-26 over Cruz (Kasich is at 23).
With 15% reporting in the Missouri Democrats race, Sanders is up 50-48.
With 15% reporting in the Missouri GOP race, Trump is up 43-41 over Cruz.
With 47% reporting in the North Carolina GOP race, Trump is up 41-36 over Cruz.
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Megan Carpentier
Cheers went up from the crowd gathered for John Kasich’s victory party in the field house at the small liberal arts college Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland), as CNN announced that they were calling the Ohio Republican primary for their candidate.
Beth Ehrbar, a Berea resident who works at the university and used to be a constituent of Kasich’s during his time as a Columbus-area Congressman, declared herself “very excited!”
“I see John Kasich as a compassionate conservative,” she added, “and I’m very drawn to that.”
Compassionate conservativism – once used by George W Bush to describe his mixture of personal empathy and conservative policy prescriptions – has been key to Kasich’s campaign the last few months, as he’s tried to separate himself from the politics represented by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and, more recently, Marco Rubio.
A few feet a way, a group of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity members from Baldwin Wallace were celebrating the win. Patrick Hoang said that he voted for Kasich in Tuesday’s primary because “I believe John Kasich is the best candidate – and I wanted to be part of the effort to stop Donald Trump.”
“I’m really looking forward to a brokered convention,” he added. “I believe neither of them [Cruz or Trump} would be a good fit for the presidency.”
Austin Hermann, said, “I’m from Pennsylvania, so he has my vote there” on 26 April.
Ryan Ginley was even more enthusiastic. “He supports the red, white and blue, the constitution and our country, so I support John Kasich” – who, it should be noted, was himself an Alpha Sigma Phi brother, according to the Baldwin students.