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Monday 29 February 2016
With big win, Clinton heads to Super Tuesday with momentum
JULIE PACE with Marco Rubio and Ted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at Meharry Medical College, Sunday,
LISA LERER Cruz, two senators scram- Feb. 28, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.
Associated Press bling to stop the billionaire
COLUMBIA, South Carolina from running away with the (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
(AP) — Hillary Clinton re- Republican nomination.
soundingly reclaimed her On Tuesday, Republicans aged 30 and older, ac- and television networks.. ers. He also carried those
standing as the front-run- will vote in 11 states, with cording to exit polls con- Sanders continued to do who identified themselves
ner for the Democratic 595 delegates at stake. ducted by Edison Research well with young voters, his as independent and most
presidential nomination Cruz acknowledged that for The Associated Press most passionate support- white voters.q
with a lopsided victory over a strong showing by Trump
Bernie Sanders in South on Tuesday could perhaps
Carolina, giving her mo- seal the nomination for the
mentum heading into the real estate magnate. The
Super Tuesday contests in Texas senator told CBS’
multiple states. “Face the Nation” on Sun-
For Sanders, the roughly day that “there is no doubt
50-point defeat crystalized that if Donald steamrolls
his weakness with black through Super Tuesday,
voters, a crucial segment wins everywhere with big
of the Democratic elector- margins, that he may well
ate. If he loses blacks by be unstoppable.”
similar margins in the South- Whatever the polls, Ru-
ern states that vote Tues- bio expressed confidence
day, Clinton would likely that Trump won’t be the
take a delegate lead diffi- Republican presidential
cult for the Vermont sena- nominee. But the Florida
tor to overcome. senator warned Sunday on
Taken together, 865 Dem- CBS’ “Face the Nation that
ocratic delegates to the if Trump does win the nomi-
party’s national nominat- nation “it will split us and
ing convention are up for splinter us in a way that
grabs in the Super Tuesday we may never be able to
contests in 11 states and recover.” The Republican
American Samoa. Sanders candidates fired insults at
aims to stay close to Clin- each other Saturday. Cruz
ton in the South while fo- asked parents if they would
cusing most of his attention be pleased if their children
on states in the Midwest spouted profanities in the
and Northeast, including manner of the brash billion-
his home state of Vermont. aire, while Rubio mocked
As Clinton relished the most Trump as a “con artist”
sweeping victory of her with “the worst spray tan in
political career, her focus America.”
was already on Super Tues- For Clinton, South Carolina
day — and the general was a moment to wipe
election. “Despite what away bitter memories of
you hear, we don’t need her loss to Barack Obama
to make America great there eight years ago. She
again,” Clinton said at a won the support of nearly
rally Saturday night, allud- 9 in 10 black voters, crucial
ing to Republican front-run- Democratic backers who
ner Donald Trump and his had abandoned her for
campaign slogan. “Amer- Obama in 2008.
ica has never stopped Sanders, expecting de-
being great,” Clinton de- feat on Saturday, left the
clared. state before voting finished
Sanders acknowledged and turned his attention
getting “decimated” in to states outside the South
South Carolina, but said that vote in Tuesday’s del-
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet egate-rich contests. He
the Press” that his cam- didn’t mention the results
paign is “looking to the fu- of the South Carolina vote
ture, not looking back” as once in a nearly hour-long
the contests move outside speech in Minnesota late
the South. Saturday night, but in a
Like Clinton, Trump has won statement, vowed to fight
three of the four early vot- on aggressively.
ing contests. He’s cleared Clinton allies quickly touted
the field of nearly all his ri- the breadth of her victory.
vals, but is engaged in an Along with blacks, she won
increasingly bitter contest most women and voters
