The votes are in
Super Tuesday 2016
Loading ...Super Tuesday 2016 was a decisive day for many of the 2016 Presidential candidates. Sucurrent Republican delegate counts are Donald Trump with 316, Ted Cruz with 226, Marco Rubio with 106, John Kasich with 25 and Ben Carson with eight. The Republican race has been a crowded one since the race began last year, and it looks like it will still have multiple people running for the near future.
The results for the Democrat party on Super Tuesday were not surprising. Hillary Clinton won 486 democratic delegates and seven states. Bernie Sanders won 321 democratic delegates and four states. The current Democratic delegate counts are 1,052 for Hillary Clinton and 427 for Bernie Sanders. With many more states primaries coming up soon, it looks like both Sanders and Clinton will remain in the contest until the end.
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Current delegate counts for both parties can be found at http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/delegate-count-tracker.
States won by Republican candidates on Super Tuesday
The Republican race has had a big shake up in the past week. With Trump’s three state win streak coming into Super Tuesday, many thought that he would dominate the primaries on Tuesday. That was not the case though. Trump did not dominate Super Tuesday as much as was expected. Ted Cruz came in as a very close second with only 25 less delegates than Trump. Texas was a decisive victory for Cruz. His 99 delegates from Texas helped keep him close to Donald Trump in delegate totals. Rubio’s strong showing in the southern states and Minnesota show that he is capable of getting votes. He is expected to stay in the race until after his home state of Florida. The Republican nomination will remain unclear until more candidates drop out, which probably will not happen until late March or early April. Many Republicans support Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio because of their “traditional” Republican values. However, as the nation has seen, Donald Trump also has a lot of support.
States won by Democratic candidates on Super Tuesday
Going into Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton had multiple leads and won most of the states that she was ahead in. Clinton won by large margins in the southern states and with minorities. In some states, she got 80% of the minority vote. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders got most of his votes from younger people that have been large contributors to his campaign. Whichever Democrat wins the nomination, they must be able to get both the votes of young people and the minorities to win the general election. The question for both parties, as always, is whether they can get behind a single candidate and keep their party from splitting up.
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