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Data review: Trump v Clinton looks even more likely
6.09pm GMT
What does the 2012 Republican nominee have to say? He’s spent the last week slamming Trump on Twitter. Now the Romney shop has e-blasted reporters to announce the speech.
NEW: @MittRomney will deliver speech on "state of the 2016 presidential race" tomorrow morning in Utah... #decision2016
A disqualifying & disgusting response by @realDonaldTrump to the KKK. His coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America.
6.06pm GMT
Once again, underdog Bernie Sanders has far outrun Hillary Clinton in fundraising. Sanders raised a smashing $42m in February, his campaign said earlier this week.
The Clinton camp has just released its February number and it’s just over 70% of the Sanders figure:
The Latest: Clinton camp says it raised $30 million in Feb., less than Sanders: https://t.co/TXlfD0ZcAO
5.58pm GMT
Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican whose approval rating has variously been described as “amazing” and “transcendent,” has declared that he will never vote for Donald Trump.
Massachusetts GOP Gov Baker on Trump: “I’m not going to vote for him in November.”
5.40pm GMT
Senator Marco Rubio has voted early in Florida:
This morning Jeanette & I early voted in West Miami. Find your early voting location here: https://t.co/x1msozQa8F pic.twitter.com/TiqZPFtvxz
Rubio cast his ballot for Florida primary at West Miami City Hall, where his career in elected office began as city commissioner.
5.07pm GMT
What’s buzzing in the comments? Here’s what:
The images of the black lady being manhandled by Trump fans are very disturbing to say the least.
One would have wished that images such as these - so common in a different era - now had been consigned to the past.
Truly horrible, and given the kind of energy that Trump's shenanigans have released—energy that the GOP has been tapping into with dog-whistles for years—I fear we can expect to see more of this kind of thing.
That energy has gone from covert to overt, and Trump is the one who uncorked that bottle. There's no getting it back it, either.
Awful.
Hillary supporters sorely underestimate the animosity toward her on a gut level, never mind the fact that the masses are demanding regime change.
Wake UP!! Get on the Sanders train before it's too late!...
Looking at the polls, Trump has it in the bag.
But Sanders has more than a fighting chance. His weak spot is behind him. He's still standing, with a huge pile of money, favorable demographics and polls.
Trump is the liberal savior!
Single-handedly ripping the GOP into pieces while killing its chances at the White House as well as wrecking it's votes for the house and senate.This could mark an unprecedented 16 year run of Dem terms (2 Obama, 2 Clinton).
4.55pm GMT
In need of some comic relief? The folks at Bad Lip Reading have taken on Ted Cruz. “This whole nation’s like a pork pie. Juicy America.”
4.37pm GMT
“Donald Trump’s oldest son gave a 20-minute interview last weekend to a radio host who thinks that slavery is the best thing to ever happen to African Americans,” Politico reports:
James Edwards — who is the host of a radio show called “Political Cesspool” that has hosted leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis—spoke with Donald Trump Jr. and will air the show on Saturday according to a blog post released Tuesday.
Edwards once wrote that that slavery was great for African Americans but bad for whites.
I'm old enough to remember when dog whistles weren't so loud https://t.co/muSMtpFXxW
It's possible Trump himself is not a virulent racist. But there is no question he relies upon racism to drive up his vote totals.
Can someone redo this with the Trump logo? pic.twitter.com/lnK8Pyf1DI
4.26pm GMT
A candidate who has described Mexicans as rapists and criminals and whose core immigration plan is to make Mexico pay for a giant wall ought not to prosper on the southern border, writes the Guardian’s Tom Dart:
Yet Donald Trump was embraced on Tuesday by voters in America’s most Hispanic city.
Related: Trump dominates in Texas border town where proposed wall would be built
Not that it takes a lot of GOP votes to win here – only 4,089 were cast in the race, compared with nearly 26,000 among Democrats. Laredo is 96% Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2010 census, and it is hugely Democratic: Barack Obama won 77% of the vote in the county in 2012. In an unusual spurt of eloquence, twice-failed GOP presidential hopeful and former Texas governor Rick Perry once called the border the blueberry in the tomato soup: a speck of nutrition for Democrats in a Republican-dominated state.
4.01pm GMT
White men roughed up a young black woman – reportedly a protester – who attended a vicious Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday night. Local news video (skip to 1:24) of the rally captures Trump urging supporters to “go get ’em” – apparently a reference to the protesters – as a crowd of white people shoves around a few black protesters, with at least one in the mob smiling and filming on his camera.
Local WLKY news reports:
Many times the crowd cheered Trump, but he was also interrupted by protesters several times. Those protesters were led out of the convention center.
At one point, a woman could be seen being pushed by people in the crowd until she left.
Trump. 2016. America. Watch. pic.twitter.com/pZe51tQDqR
Trump was interrupted more than half a dozen times by protesters raising signs and shouting.
“Get ‘em the hell out of here. Get out. Get out,” Trump yelled into the microphone as his security team and police officers led people away and the crowd cheered loudly.
One man wearing a makeshift hood was led out by police.
See, there are tons of "quietly" racist folks who now have a way to push their views -- by voting for Trump.
3.45pm GMT
How strong was Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday? He did not put the race away – his delegate gains on the field weren’t as impressive as the list of seven states he won, and he is only 27% of the way to the winning mark of 1,237 delegates.
If the current dynamics of the race hold – and with Rubio and Cruz (and Kasich) sticking in, what changes them? – Trump marches to the nomination. He’s just a long way from being there now.
So the provisional share of all delegates each candidate has won so far is:
Trump 46%, Cruz 32%, Rubio 16%, Kasich 4%, Carson 1%, other 1%
Good news for Trump's rivals: Math is there to stop Trump
Bad news: Field isn't winnowing and clock is ticking https://t.co/pQA3InQsuR
Here's a rough breakdown of where we are in the delegate race (w/ the caveat that ST delegates aren't set in stone). pic.twitter.com/UeIFK3FYdG
So Trump got over 40% in two states? Lost 4 states. Nearly lost 3 more. Yes, folks it's clear this is over. Oh wait.
So if my math is correct, Trump won 34.4 percent of the total vote tonight. Doing an average of his vote across states, he won 34.5 percent.
And hilariously enough, Trump's avg vote in the first four contests was? 34.5%. So his average state tonight matched his avg in 1st four.
Plan A: Sit tight, wait for Trump to collapse. Plan B: Clear field so Marco can beat Trump 1-on-1. Plan C: Keep field big, deny Trump 1,237.
3.30pm GMT
A hometown hero, but not just in Vermont – Sanders also won Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota, and he came very close in Massachusetts. With all states awarding Democratic delegates proportionately, Sanders stays in the race – without really showing signs of being able to expand his appeal in a way that could spell national success. Not yet at least.
Per our math, Sanders would need to win 59% of remaining delegates to catch Clinton -- under a proportional system https://t.co/pQA3Io83Tr
Local coverage of "Hometown Hero" Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/1M59PA8ooq
Share of popular vote within their party thus far:
Bernie Sanders: ~38%
Donald Trump: ~35%
3.18pm GMT
[Yes pedants, he means Frankenstein’s monster.]
Here’s quite a scene on the Senate floor. Minority leader Harry Reid says Republicans spent “eight years laying the ground work for the rise of Donald Trump. The reality is that Republican leaders are reaping what they’ve sown.”
.@senatorreid on @realdonaldtrump: "It's time for Republicans to stop the Frankenstein they created." https://t.co/wtwILEbe9a
"The Republican Party condemns racism in all its forms"
"Will you guys restore the Voting Rights Act?"
"Hang on my earpiece is broken"
3.05pm GMT
Hillary Clinton lost Oklahoma to Bernie Sanders by 10 points last night – and fell even further short of the share of the vote she got in the state back in 2008, during her losing race against Barack Obama.
But in the southern states of Virginia and Alabama, Clinton improved enormously on her 2008 performance, pointing up the power of the African American vote for her this time around and the power of the same support for Obama last time.
1.58pm GMT
Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. With Super Tuesday behind us, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton appear to be extremely strong contenders for their parties’ respective nominations – but the race isn’t over yet.
Trump has amassed 285 delegates, Ted Cruz 161, and Marco Rubio, 87. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the GOP nomination.
On the Democratic side, Clinton had at least 1,005 delegates, Sanders 373. It takes 2,383 Democratic delegates to win.
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Trump Your Enthusiasm pic.twitter.com/cPeweKwgVD
Can Chris Christie hold up a copy of a newspaper so that we know the hostage video was taken recently?
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