Donald Trump won three of five Republicans primaries on Tuesday, including the key state of Florida, knocking out the party leadership’ s front man, Marco Rubio, in the process. Hillary Clinton won four of the Democratic party’ s primaries, severely damaging her only rival Bernie Sanders’ s long-shot campaign, and boosting her chances of winning the nomination.
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Donald Trump won three of five Republicans primaries on Tuesday, including the key state of Florida, knocking out the party leadership’ s front man, Marco Rubio, in the process. Hillary Clinton won four of the Democratic party’ s primaries, severely damaging her only rival Bernie Sanders’ s long-shot campaign, and boosting her chances of winning the nomination.
Trump’ s decisive win in Florida was taken as a sign of his complete domination of the Republican race and the decimation of his party leaders’ increasingly desperate attempts to stop him. Trump won Florida, North Carolina and Illinois; and John Kasich won Ohio, his home state, registering his first victory in the 2016 presidential election cycle.
Missouri, the fifth primary for both parties, was in a virtual tie till late— between Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side, and Clinton and Sanders on the other.
Rubio, who had come to embody party leaders’ hopes of stopping Trump, ended his campaign, leaving only three in the Republican race— down from the starting line- of 17. Trump is clearly in the lead in terms of delegates, states won and polls. He leads Ted Cruz, who has been in the second slot for a while, by a wide margin and Kasich, the new No 3.
It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. Trump is at 619, with Missouri still counting votes. A win in Ohio would have sealed it for him.
The Democratic race, on the other hand, appears headed for a straight convention with a clear winner, with Clinton amassing primary wins and delegates rapidly.
The frontrunner picked up Florida and Ohio, both the big states, and North Carolina and Illinois. She was locked in a virtual tie with Sanders in Missouri.
With Tuesday’ s results, Clinton has now won in 15 states to Sanders’ s nine. And her numbers are even more impressive in the count of delegates for the Democratic convention.
Clinton has 1,561 delegates, including the“ superdelegates” who are elected officials and party leaders, to Sanders’ s 800. The democratic nomination comes at 2,383.
Super Tuesday Showdowns
US Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Wednesday warned of riots if he is denied the party’ s presidential nomination after a string of primary election victories, raising the temperature even more in a heated White House race.
In an interview with CNN, Trump said the party could not deny him the nomination should he fail to win enough delegates.“ I don’ t think you can say that we don’ t get it automatically. I think you’ d have riots. I think you’ d have riots. I’ m representing many, many millions of people.”
Trump might fall short of the majority required, enabling the party’ s establishment to put forward another name at the July convention in Cleveland.
All five Republican primaries on Tuesday follow the winner-takes-all format, and are crucial for that reason, too— with the potential to bolster a cam-
“ I think you’ d have riots. I think you’ d have riots. I’ m representing many, many millions of people”
paign with just one win or two, or wreck it. Allan Lichtman, a professor at DC’ s American University and a political commentator, said this about the Tuesday primaries:“ The most likely outcome is Donald Trump will pad his delegate lead going into the next round of primaries, Rubio will be out of the running, Kasich will either be out of the running if he loses Ohio or dangling on life support, since he really doesn’ t have much beyond Ohio.
“ Ohio would be his only win, and that would essentially leave the Republican contest down to a battle between Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, with Trump having a big advantage.”
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Donald Trump now says Indians studying in the US are smart, and a try should be made to have them stay on after they graduate and not“ kick them out”.
Trump has been re-calibrating his position on the hiring of foreign workers. He has both opposed and supported H-1B visas, which allow US companies to hire highly skilled workers either from abroad or from among foreign students in universities here.
He called for the program to be ended as recently as the Republican debate on March 10, when Indian companies came in for specific mention. Asked to clarify by a Fox News interviewer on Sunday, he said,“ They go to Harvard, they are first in their class and they’ re from India. They go back to India and they set up companies and they make a fortune and they employ lots of people and all of that.“ Many people want to stay in this country and then want to do that. I think somebody that goes through years of college in this country, we shouldn’ t kick them out the day they graduate, which we do.”
The suggestion to encourage foreign students to stay on is not new. Many experts and lawmakers have been supporting it for a long time, especially for those graduating from STEM— science, technology, engineering and maths— courses. In a 2013 legislation, a bipartisan group of senators proposed hiking the annual cap on H-1B visas from the current 65,000 to 110,000 and going up to 180,000. The cap on foreign students, who Trump was talking about in the Fox News interview, was proposed to go up from 20,000 to 25,000.
On his campaign website, he has opposed H- 1B expansion, as proposed in the Senate legislation, arguing it would“ decimate” American jobs, especially for women and minorities. But when asked about it at the party’ s March 3 debate, Trump said:“ I’ m changing.” He added,“ We need highly skilled people in this country. If we can’ t do it, we will get them in.”