Posted on 03/13/2016 5:45:58 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
After canceling a Friday rally in Chicago due to potential violence, Donald Trump lost out on two major primary contests on Saturday, giving a much-needed boost to his competitors Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
On Saturday, Rubio – who is currently in third place in the GOP race – was declared the winner of the Washington D.C. caucus, nabbing the district's 10 delegates all for himself. Meanwhile, Cruz won nine on Wyoming's 11 delegates, with Trump and Rubio each earning one delegate each. The state's 14 other delegates will be elected at the April 16 state convention. While Trump is still clearly the frontrunner with 460 delegates, Cruz is quickly catching up with a total of 369 delegates.
Rubio, meanwhile, follows with 163 while John Kasich has nabbed 63. The Republican candidates need 1,237 total delegates to win the nomination. Cruz and Rubio will have big chances to catch up to Trump on Tuesday, when several major Republican primaries are set to take place. The biggest prize is Florida with its 99 delegates, which also happens to be Rubio's home state. Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and the North Mariana Islands will also hold voting on Tuesday, with a total number of 367 delegates for the taking. Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton nabbed a victory on Saturday when she won the contest in the Northern Mariana Islands – and their 4 delegates. She is still in the lead against Sen. Bernie Sanders with 766 total delegates to his 551. The Democratic candidates need 2,383 delegates to secure their nomination. Trump, meanwhile, has been soldiering on in his campaign despite recent headline-making chaos surrounding his events.
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First of all, these were both caucus events and not primaries.
Second of all, they have nothing to do with the Trump rally violence in Chicago.
Rubio, as the clear preference of the GOPe, was long expected to win the DC caucus as the home base of the GOPe.
Trump has really not done well in the Rocky Mountain states. So the Ted Cruz win in Wyoming was hardly unexpected, any more than his solid primary win in Idaho.
Yahoo is flat out Propagandist level.
“Donald Trump lost out on two major primary contests on Saturday”
And Yahoo readers will believe it.
“Major”.....yeah right, real major ones. Freakin’ idiots.
I believe Trump will win AZ.
We’ll see what they are saying after Tuesday.
“... Donald Trump lost out on two major primary contests on Saturday...”
First off they were caucuses, not primaries...
Secondly, Wyoming and Washington DC are “major”?????
ROFL!!!!!
Thos is so dishonest, WY 1,600 votes cast by party officers in a caucus.
DC only had votig for 2 hours at one location.....
It's like the 'Kasich catching Trump' in Ohio.
The writer is a cholita
What else can we expect....besides her bias
It was more likely than Idaho. I read that Wyoming is party functionaries voting, not regular people. Cruz is the GOPe guy now.
Excellent shredding of this bs!
This is it! Trump’s poll numbers will tank now, I tell ya!
In journalism, that lead paragraph has fundamental problems. They are stretching. Florida will show if the Trump Chaos rallies have and effect or not—not earlier.
Unfortunately, it's probably the main source of political information for Millenials and Libturds.
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