Not a “Super Tuesday”, but very important: primaries in five states on March 15
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US presidential candidates, who are still fighting internally for nominations, are actively preparing for Tuesday's primaries, which will be held in five states at once - Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina. All of these states send large delegations to party conventions, which will determine the main contenders for the presidency.
Prior to this, the most important from the point of view of electoral layouts was the so-called "Super Tuesday"when the voting was carried out immediately 14 states and territories. Exactly then in the status of leaders entrenched Hillary Clinton among Democrats and Donald Trump among Republicans.
On the eve of the current vote, as noted by the Voice of America, Trump’s opponents want prevent receiving an irresistible advantage in the number of delegates. They claim that the candidate is responsible for the frequent scuffles at his election meetings.
However, Trump denies accusations that his election campaign provokes people. Speaking on Sunday in Bloomington, Illinois, Donald Trump said he wants peace, not unrest.
Fights and clashes between Trump supporters and opponents, among other things, occurred in several states where the primaries will be held on Tuesday. Several demonstrators were arrested.
The favorite among Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said the day before that Trump was “trading in hate and fear.” However, she noted that criticizing Trump will lead to nothing if people do not go to the polls on Election Day and vote against him.
Clinton’s only rival for the nomination, Senator from the state of Vermont, Bernie Sanders, expressed the hope that Trump would lower the tone of his campaign and convince his supporters that violence would not be tolerated.
Trump, in turn, accused Sanders of organizing unrest at the billionaire election demonstrations and threatened to send his supporters in response to Sanders rallies.
“Send it,” Sanders said. “They deserve to see what a real, honest politician looks like.”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is now second in the number of Republican delegates, has once again attacked Trump with criticism.
“When you run a campaign that has no respect for voters, a campaign that encourages violence, you create an environment that only encourages these kinds of abominations,” Cruz said on NBC.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, both well behind Trump, describe his campaign as “dangerous” and “toxic.”
Rubio and Kasich are betting on victory in their home states, where Tuesday's vote will be winner-take-all. However, if in Ohio the ratings of Trump and Kasich are close to each other, then in Florida Trump is still leading by a large margin over both Rubio and Cruz.
As a result of the primaries and caucuses, state delegations are formed at the national congresses of the Republican and Democratic parties in July, where the official nomination of presidential candidates will take place.
Democrats don't conduct winner-take-all voting, so Clinton and Sanders will increase their delegate pools proportionally based on the results of each state's primary.
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