Super Tuesday 2016: Marco Rubio says attacks on Donald Trump are working

Mar 02, 2016, 10:03

Clinton's victories in the South are further evidence of her strength among African-American voters, which could make it extremely hard for Sanders to win the nomination.

Hillary Clinton had won five of the Super Tuesday's Democratic nominating contests and Donald Trump piked up four on the Republicans side since late evening. But as of this writing, Sanders has won not only Vermont but also Oklahoma and is leading in both Minnesota and Colorado caucuses.

Clinton and Trump were pressing for sweeping victories that could distance them from their party rivals and move them closer to a November presidential election showdown.

On Tuesday night, Mr. Trump spoke from a small stage on which piano recitals and other forms of entertainment were performed in the glamorous days of Mrs. Post, once the wealthiest woman in the United States. Trump won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia, while Clinton won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

However, Rubio was expected to face quick calls from Trump to drop out of the race if he failed to pick up any wins.

"America never stopped being great".

Republican officials, fearing a Trump sweep, have been lashing out at his temperament and command of the issues in the hours before voting began. Marco Rubio was "a total lightweight" while he called Texas Sen.

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Terry McAuliffe is a long-time ally of the Clintons, and Robby Mook, her campaign manager, also ran his successful campaign here. On the Democratic side, Clinton thunders into Super Tuesday coming off a momentous win in SC fueled African-American support.

Clinton was steadying herself after an unexpectedly strong challenge from Bernie Sanders.

Trump has already won in the Midwest, in Iowa, the Northeast in New Hampshire, and in the Rocky Mountain West, in Nevada.

The candidates are vying to win delegates who will vote for them at their parties' conventions in July. Ted Cruz in the much-needed delegates needed to win his party's nomination. Forty-eight remain to be allocated in those three states.

On the Republican side, Ted Cruz won his home state of Texas, the night's single biggest prize, as well as neighboring Oklahoma.

The crossfire between Trump and establishment Republicans threatened to rip the party apart at a time when it will need to generate momentum behind a prospective nominee.

Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Virginia were among the states where both triumphed.

Cruz told supporters at his victory party in Texas that Trump was a "Washington dealmaker, profane and vulgar, who has a lifelong pattern of using government power for personal gain".

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Rubio's goal was even more modest.

The Florida senator's long-shot White House hopes now rest with his home state, which votes on March 15.

"He has to get out", he told Fox News.

The other Republican candidates, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had poor showings, which continued a trend in their nebulous campaigns.

Republicans spent months largely letting Trump go unchallenged, wrongly assuming that his populist appeal with voters would fizzle.

Trump, 69, has anxious many in the Republican establishment with proposals such as building a wall along the USA southern border with Mexico, deporting 11 million illegal immigrants and slapping a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.

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