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What Happened To The Republicans and Democrats on Super Tuesday?
This is Ray Mossholder
The very liberal New York Times’ headline says it well this morning: Trump Overwhelms GOP Rivals on Super Tuesday. And underneath that line was this one: Minority Voters Push Clinton to Victories Across the South.
Voters must have thought Super Tuesday was Black Friday because they came out in each state in numbers that were HUGE! If we follow that analogy, Donald Trump got the vacuum cleaner and swept up first place in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Ted Cruz got the lawnmower and mowed down Trump in the Lone Star State of Texas, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plane, and Alaska (in spite of Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump). … And Marco Rubio won a state, his first, from leftist Minnesota. Rubio needed that in order to still be considered for the three-man race that will be run in Florida two weeks from now. Donald Trump leads Marco by double digits in Florida today. Watch for Rubio to try to erase those digits with the Republican Karl Rove-ites getting in all the help that they can give him in the next two weeks. Trump is way ahead in the Sunshine state but it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Even before the Florida vote on March 15th, nine more states beyond last night will have already voted. Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine will vote just two days from now on March 5th. Then three days later, on March 8th, Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan and Mississippi, will cast their votes. Then four days after that on March 12th, Washington DC will get into the act. Just to round this out, when Florida does vote three days after that, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and Governor John Kasich’s Ohio, will be voting too. By that time, the Republican Party should know who their presidential candidate will be. Many in the media are already declaring it will be Donald Trump. But their predictions go further. They are reporting that there easily could be a brokered convention that would replace votes by those who favor the Donald with an altogether delegates switching their votes. If that happens, how will you react?
The Afro-American vote, plus the Latino vote, gave Hillary Clinton victories in Texas, Virginia, and all across the South – Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Bernie Sanders won in Vermont, the state he has been representing as an Independent Senator until turning Democrat to run in this election last year. He also won in Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plane, Colorado and Minnesota.
Right now the appearance is that the final race for the White House will be between Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. Who would’ve thought it? And by the way, when CNN tells you that either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would beat Donald Trump if the presidential election was held today, please take that with a HUGE dose of salt. Realize ALL stops are now being pulled to cause Donald Trump to lose. That will continue until someone is nominated by the Republicans. Trumped up scandals, bare-faced lies, and spinning the truth on it’s ear, will come from newspeople that you generally trust, the lamestream media, and from some of the Republican elite who would tie themselves to train tracks if it would be sure Trump won’t be nominated. Some have already sworn to vote for Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump becomes their final presidential candidate because they know they all may be evicted if there is a President Trump. Everything you hear from now until the election about Donald Trump should be listened to or seen with a warning that forever is fixed in your mind “The story they are telling you has an extremely good chance of NOT being true.”
Hillary sounded ecstatic tonight as she said at her victory rally “What a Super Tuesday!” At another part of her speech, Mrs. Clinton said “It is clear that the stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric we’re hearing on the other side has never been lower. Trying to divide America between us and them is wrong, and we’re not going to let it work. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in this together, my friends, and we all have to do our part.” Hillary beat Bernie last night in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Bernie won in Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Vermont. Bernie has sworn he will stay in the race all the way to the Democrat convention. But as of tonight, remembering that it requires 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has 1,001 delegates pledged to her, while Bernie Sanders has 371 in spite of how states have voted so far.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump held a press conference rather than a rally and changed his tone to one that was very presidential, answering the medias questions as best he could. There were no verbal attacks by the Donald. Instead, he congratulated Ted Cruz for his victories tonight. Surprising to some is the fact that Ted Cruz did not win the evangelical vote. That went to Trump. And the pundits favoring Cruz’ had predicted that many of the Southern states would have chosen Cruz at the end of the evening. But again they went strongly to Trump.
Now that Super Tuesday’s votes have been counted, remembering that it takes 1,237 delegates to elect a Republican as their official presidential candidate, there is still a long way to go. Right now Donald Trump has 285, Ted Cruz has 161, Marco Rubio has 87, John Kasich has 25, and Doctor Ben Carson has 8. What it means is that Donald Trump still needs almost 1,000 delegate votes to win. So though many political pundits are saying that Donald Trump has the Republican nomination all sewed up, that seems an exaggeration with so many states yet to vote and so many delegates still needed by him.
Another note: In spite of all the states Donald Trump won this Super Tuesday, he didn’t do as well as most polls predicted. And John Kasich gave Trump a real run for his money in Vermont where the two placed first and second. Is there a chink in Donald Trump’s armor? Time will tell. By the end of this month, whatever happens and if all is done fairly, we should know who the two are that will be running for president against each other.
And finally, on a totally different subject:
If you think you can trust a self–driving car to keep you accident free, well, think again my friend. You may not have heard about this, but the invincible Google and their invincible self driving car were partially to blame for an accident on Valentine’s Day – an accident not with another car, or even a truck, but with a city bus! Google now admits their cars have been involved in 17 minor accidents, but claimed none of them were their car’s fault. The city bus was in Mountain View, California, the home sweet home of Google.
The Valentine accident happened when their test driver, who was going about 2 miles an hour, thought the bus was going to yield and the car guessed wrong (can cars really guess?) Google reported that their car sustained minor injuries to its left side. The bus was going about 15 miles an hour and Google didn’t report how much damage was done do it. The accident is being listed as a fender–bender.
Google said its driverless cars have driven more than 1 million miles. They call it “autonomous driving”. After this accident, a spokesman reported “Since February 14th we have made changes in our software to avoid future accidents like this in the future. From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses and other large vehicles are less likely to yield to them than to other types of vehicles. ”
This is Ray Mossholder and I’ve got to tell you, cars that can guess and can understand, give me the willies.
From the news desk of Reach More Now in Fort Worth, Texas, I’ll be back with more reports from Campaign 2016 very soon.
What Happened To The Republicans and Democrats on Super Tuesday?
What Happened To The Republicans and Democrats on Super Tuesday?