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| Primary live: Trump and Clinton win big as Kasich takes Ohio and Rubio quits | Primary live: Trump and Clinton win big as Kasich takes Ohio and Rubio quits |
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| 3.50am GMT | |
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| There’s winning only your home state (Kasich, so far) – and then there’s winning only your home town: | |
| Rubio lost 66 of 67 Florida counties, carrying only Miami-Dade. | |
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| at 3.50am GMT | |
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| Clinton claims 'very strong lead' | |
| Lauren Gambino | |
| After Clinton’s string of victories on Tuesday, her campaign said her lead would be “very hard to overtake” but stopped short of saying it was insurmountable. The campaign also refused to call on Sanders to exit the race, writes the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino: | |
| “It is not up to us when the Democratic primary ends,” Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s communications director, told reporters after Clinton’s speech in Florida. “But we believe that it is a very strong lead, twice the size of any lead Senator Obama had as a candidate over then Senator Clinton.” | |
| Palmieri added: “When she ran against president Obama in 2008 she stayed in until the end. She said that she would never call on someone to drop out.” | |
| But soon after Clinton’s speech ended, Correct the Record, a Super pac backing Clinton’s candidacy, said Tuesday’s victories “effectively ended the Democratic nomination for president” and taunted Sanders for staying in the race. | |
| “If Sanders soldiers on, it will be for the same reason he made a politically calculating decision to run as a Democrat to begin with: to get media coverage for his own personal ambition,” said Brad Woodhouse, the Pac’s president. | |
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| We’re starting to go granular on the Democratic Missouri race – where Bernie Sanders holds a 2.3% edge, with 89.1% reporting (we’re sure by now that you have found our comprehensive results page but just in case for the stragglers, it’s here). | |
| Check out Lewis County, in the far northeast of the state, second one from the top (it’s in gray in the graphic below). With 495 total votes cast and 100% reporting, it’s... tied at 239 votes apiece. | |
| What happened to the other 17 votes? Recount! Or not, if Sanders holds his margin – he leads by about 12,000 votes at the moment. | |
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| Lucia Graves | |
| He may have been winning the GOP primary on Tuesday night, but Donald Trump just hit an all time low. | |
| In his victory speech, as he was flanked by a grinning Corey Lewandowski, his embattled campaign manager who stands accused of assaulting reporter Michelle Fields when she asked Trump a question on his way out of an event. (Last week Fields filed a criminal complaint against Lewandowski; her case is supported by an eyewitness account from Ben Terris of The Washington Post, as well as publicly available audio of the incident.) | |
| Related: Donald Trump's campaign violence is condoned all the way to the top | Lucia Graves | |
| A report from Politico found Lewandowski has a long history of acting inappropriately – and that the reporter, Ben Schreckinger, was denied entry to Trump’s Tuesday night event. | |
| Yet Trump chose to put Lewandowski on center stage at his press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, referring to him as part of his “squad” and singling him out for the highest of high praise with: “Good job Corey.” Lewandowski beamed. | |
| There is a loyalty to your teammates and then there is this – purposefully extending a (scarcely) metaphorical finger to the press corps and to anyone who would question your campaign or go in search of truth. | |
| Trump certainly wasn’t trying to hide his disdain. “Disgusting reporters. Horrible people. Some are nice,” Trump said in his concluding remarks. (That “some are nice” line is a dog whistle for anyone willing to trade their reporting teeth for access or a favorable column.) | |
| Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. This, after all, is what Trump has done his entire campaign: find the ugliest thing supporting him or giving him power, and feed the beast. Punch someone in the face? He’ll pay the legal bills. Assault a woman reporter? He’ll shower praise on you on live TV. | |
| In a way Trump’s entire candidacy has been a more diffuse version of this. He’s determined that some of what is most base in America – our bigotry and racism and fear of outsiders – serves him, and as long as the hellfire helps him, he’ll fan the flames. This is just the clearest example we’ve seen – this week. | |
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| Chicago ambiance. | |
| 3.20am GMT | 3.20am GMT |
| 03:20 | 03:20 |
| Trump agrees with early-March Marco Rubio that the Florida victor will be the Republican nominee: | Trump agrees with early-March Marco Rubio that the Florida victor will be the Republican nominee: |
| Thank you Marco, I agree! pic.twitter.com/PTfFzFno9p | Thank you Marco, I agree! pic.twitter.com/PTfFzFno9p |
| 3.18am GMT | 3.18am GMT |
| 03:18 | 03:18 |
| Hold the phone. This represents people getting really excited about a close race, more than anything. But with some models showing Trump just missing a majority of delegates, and the prospect of a brokered convention (sort of) looming.... Paul Ryan? Why not. | Hold the phone. This represents people getting really excited about a close race, more than anything. But with some models showing Trump just missing a majority of delegates, and the prospect of a brokered convention (sort of) looming.... Paul Ryan? Why not. |
| Interesting news to emerge tonight: "Paul Ryan won't categorically rule out accepting GOP nom" https://t.co/aw5btQbjge | Interesting news to emerge tonight: "Paul Ryan won't categorically rule out accepting GOP nom" https://t.co/aw5btQbjge |
| I'm old enough to remember when Paul Ryan refused the possibility of becoming Speaker of the House. https://t.co/GJs9TpQHfh | I'm old enough to remember when Paul Ryan refused the possibility of becoming Speaker of the House. https://t.co/GJs9TpQHfh |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 3.24am GMT | at 3.24am GMT |
| 3.14am GMT | 3.14am GMT |
| 03:14 | 03:14 |
| Sanders does not mention results | Sanders does not mention results |
| Dan Roberts | Dan Roberts |
| Bernie Sanders did not mention the night’s dismal results during a rally for 7,200 supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, writes Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts: | Bernie Sanders did not mention the night’s dismal results during a rally for 7,200 supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, writes Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts: |
| It felt like a surreal end to a surreal few months for a campaign that has gone further than any expected – yet may finally have run out of road. | It felt like a surreal end to a surreal few months for a campaign that has gone further than any expected – yet may finally have run out of road. |
| “Don’t let people tell you that you can’t think big,” the Vermont senator told the crowd in what proved to be a standard rendition of his stump speech. | “Don’t let people tell you that you can’t think big,” the Vermont senator told the crowd in what proved to be a standard rendition of his stump speech. |
| The only difference was far fewer mentions of Hillary Clinton than usual – a figure Sanders mainly referred to as “his opponent” – rather than the more direct attacks of recent days. | The only difference was far fewer mentions of Hillary Clinton than usual – a figure Sanders mainly referred to as “his opponent” – rather than the more direct attacks of recent days. |
| Shortly after bad news from the east started flooding in, the campaign showed its determination to keep running by announcing a new rally on Friday in Idaho, another small state (delegates-wise) that has a primary election next week. | Shortly after bad news from the east started flooding in, the campaign showed its determination to keep running by announcing a new rally on Friday in Idaho, another small state (delegates-wise) that has a primary election next week. |
| In the meantime, the senator and his exhausted team is planning a couple of days of recuperation in Sedona – a resort town in the desert north of Phoenix famous as a New Age hang out. | In the meantime, the senator and his exhausted team is planning a couple of days of recuperation in Sedona – a resort town in the desert north of Phoenix famous as a New Age hang out. |
| There is likely to be much reflection on why the momentum this campaign felt after Michigan failed to translate into success in Ohio or Illinois. | There is likely to be much reflection on why the momentum this campaign felt after Michigan failed to translate into success in Ohio or Illinois. |
| A win in Missouri would buoy some spirits, but there is no doubt that the campaign is moving slowly to the next phase: finding ways to capture the undoubted energy and passion of its supporters into something longer lasting rather than the in the increasingly thankless job of counting delegates. | A win in Missouri would buoy some spirits, but there is no doubt that the campaign is moving slowly to the next phase: finding ways to capture the undoubted energy and passion of its supporters into something longer lasting rather than the in the increasingly thankless job of counting delegates. |
| 3.10am GMT | 3.10am GMT |
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| Delegates snapshot | Delegates snapshot |
| How is the delegates dust settling? Be advised that Missouri is still unresolved – and that’s important on the Republican side especially, since Trump looks like he may turn a narrow victory or even loss into a delegates win, thanks to strong leads in most congressional districts. | How is the delegates dust settling? Be advised that Missouri is still unresolved – and that’s important on the Republican side especially, since Trump looks like he may turn a narrow victory or even loss into a delegates win, thanks to strong leads in most congressional districts. |
| But here’s a snapshot of both races: | But here’s a snapshot of both races: |
| 3.01am GMT | 3.01am GMT |
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| Many members of the media noticed Trump’s awarding pride of place tonight to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, following a week in which past alleged abusive behavior by Lewandowski surfaced and in which he was the object of a criminal battery complaint in Florida for allegedly bruising a reporter. | Many members of the media noticed Trump’s awarding pride of place tonight to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, following a week in which past alleged abusive behavior by Lewandowski surfaced and in which he was the object of a criminal battery complaint in Florida for allegedly bruising a reporter. |
| It appears that reporting on Lewandowski’s past does not win friends with the Trump camp: | It appears that reporting on Lewandowski’s past does not win friends with the Trump camp: |
| The reporter who dug into Trump's campaign manager's iffy background was denied access to Trump's event tonight. https://t.co/62UHvuViYu | The reporter who dug into Trump's campaign manager's iffy background was denied access to Trump's event tonight. https://t.co/62UHvuViYu |
| 2.59am GMT | 2.59am GMT |
| 02:59 | 02:59 |
| Cruz wraps his speech. He’s angling to make the race a one-on-one contest with Trump. | Cruz wraps his speech. He’s angling to make the race a one-on-one contest with Trump. |
| It would help if Cruz can get past Trump in Missouri, but so far – not. | It would help if Cruz can get past Trump in Missouri, but so far – not. |
| 2.58am GMT | 2.58am GMT |
| 02:58 | 02:58 |
| This is a serious squeaker on the Republican side in Missouri, where the statewide winner gets 12 delegates all his own. | This is a serious squeaker on the Republican side in Missouri, where the statewide winner gets 12 delegates all his own. |
| Our comprehensive results page is here. Only 305 votes separate Trump and Cruz, with 70.8% reporting. | Our comprehensive results page is here. Only 305 votes separate Trump and Cruz, with 70.8% reporting. |