Donald Trump was the big winner in today's primary elections. He scored the biggest state at stake by winning Florida by a wide margin, capturing all of the state's 99 delegates and forcing Sen. Marco Rubio out of the race. Trump captured 46% of the vote in Florida compared to Rubio's 27% share of the vote. Trump won every single county in the Sunshine State except for Rubio's home county of Miami-Dade. Ted Cruz and John Kasich trailed far behind with 17% and 8% of the vote, respectively.
Trump also scored a big win in Illinois where 69 delegates were at stake. Trump captured about 40% of the vote but will take the lion's share of the delegates because he is winning almost every single congressional district in the state, which each receive three delegates. He also captured 15 delegates for winning the statewide vote. Cruz will likely only collect a handful of delegates in the Land of Lincoln, although he came in second with about 30% of the vote. Kasich came in third with about 20% of the vote, while Rubio received just 8% of the vote.
The third largest delegate-awarding state today, North Carolina, also gave Trump a narrow victory over Cruz. Trump edged Cruz by a 40-37% margin. They will split the state's 72 delegates almost evenly. The same will hold true for Missouri where 52 delegates are at stake. Trump is running almost even against Cruz with each receiving about 41% of the vote. There are fewer than 2,000 votes separating the candidates with 100% of the vote counted, with Trump appearing to eke out a win in Missouri, denying Cruz any wins for the day. That will give him his fourth win of the day, although he also won all 9 delegates awarded in a caucus held earlier today in the Northern Marianas Islands.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich gets his first win in the Republican primary race, winning his home state of Ohio, which allowed him to capture all 66 of the state's delegates. He defeated Trump by an eleven-point margin of 47-36%. That still leaves him in fourth place behind Rubio in the overall delegate count to date. He has collected just 167 delegates to date. Trump has a more than 200-delegate lead over Cruz with almost 50% of the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination. Of interest to Hoosier voters is the fact that Trump carried every single Illinois county bordering Indiana, while Trump carried just two of the Ohio counties bordering Indiana. Kasich won the others. Trump did, however, run very close to Kasich in the suburban counties surrounding Cincinnati. Kasich won Hamilton County by a healthy margin.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton scored very big wins in Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, making it mathematically impossible for Bernie Sanders to win the nomination. Clinton also appears to have narrowly edged Sanders in Illinois. Sanders lost a very narrow lead in Missouri when the final votes were tallied. Clinton will take home at least twice as many delegates as Sanders today. She's now won well over 50% of the delegates she needs to win the Democratic nomination.
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