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Rivals have just two weeks to stop Trump
Donald Trump had a good (though not great)
night. Ted Cruz survived (and won a few more states than we thought he
would). And Marco Rubio struggled (finishing third in delegates). That's
your summary of last night's Republican SuperTuesday contests. As a
result, Trump's rivals now have just two weeks to stop him -- in the
winner-take-all races of Florida and Ohio onMarch 15. The good news for
them: The combined delegate haul from Florida and Ohio (165) is bigger
than Trump's overall delegate lead over his closest competition, Cruz
(104 delegates). The bad news: None of them has much of an incentive to
exit the Republican race, which means that the same five GOP candidates
-- Trump, Cruz, Rubio, John Kasich, and Ben Carson -- will continue to
split up the vote. And that gives Trump an easier path to victory in
Florida and Ohio. If any other Republican had won 10 out of the first 15
contests like Trump has, and if any other Republican was mainly
responsible for driving the turnout we've seen so far, we'd say that
person was lock to be the GOP nominee. Trump isn't a lock. But he could
be therein 13 days.
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Source: NBC News
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