Live Blog Mega Tuesday: North Carolina, Florida and Ohio called for Hillary and Florida Called Trump! Rubio Quits!
Posted: March 15, 2016 Filed under: 2016 elections, Live, Live Blog 175 Comments
Good Evening!
We continue our live discussion on the the returns from some of the biggest states’ primaries. We’re still waiting on Ohio (R), Missouri, North Carolina (R) and Illinois.
Rubio is shellacked in Florida then quits! Top Conservatives are in an uproar and–according to Politico–are looking for alternatives to the Republican front runner.
Three influential leaders of the conservative movement have summoned other top conservatives for a closed-door meeting Thursday in Washington, D.C., to talk about how to stop Donald Trump and, should he become the Republican nominee, how to run a third-party “true conservative” challenger in the fall.
The organizers of the meeting include Bill Wichterman, who was President George W. Bush’s liaison to the conservative movement; Bob Fischer, a South Dakota businessman and longtime conservative convener; and Erick Erickson, the outspoken Trump opponent and conservative activist who founded RedState.com.
This is basically the same group of people that turned the Republican Party into the dream base for that kind of candidate. WTF did they expect? So, Rubio just quit. Kasich 
appears to be alive in Ohio but that doesn’t really mean much.
No wonder this is being called Mega Tuesday!
For Donald Trump’s Republican rivals, it could be their last chance to stop his march toward the nomination, as the first winner-take-all states begin to vote. Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio is trying to topple Trump in Rubio’s home state; a loss would likely prove fatal for Rubio’s campaign. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is trying to fend Trump off on his home turf, with seemingly more success. Meanwhile, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz hopes he can grow his share of delegates and continue to make the argument he’s the only candidate who can catch Trump.
On the Democratic side, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders hopes his surprise win last week in Michigan means he can make inroads with other Rust Belt voters in Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would like to blunt Sanders’ newfound momentum and notch wins in the Midwest.
Coming close no longer cuts it on Tuesday, at least for Republicans. The biggest prizes of the night, Florida and Ohio, are winner-take-all contests. For Republicans in the rest of the states and Democrats in all their contests, delegates will still be awarded proportionally.
And they just called Ohio for Hillary!!!!!
BYE BYE BERNIEBOTS!!!
Hillary is about to speak!!!
GET READY TO RUMBLE STRUMP!!
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Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!
Fantastic, omg…………….YES, what we have here is the First woman to win the road to the White House. We have cracked the ceiling like never before. At midnight, I will relax, and hope to help Hillary with voters, with donations, with all the love, and all the luck on this here St. Patrick’s day! Let’s help her eliminate Trumpy 2016, we have the key to the HIGHWAY, and together we will make her the president of the United States.
Ohio called for Kasich!!!
All 3 HRC wins so far look like blowouts.
OMG, I’m so excited. I think this could be a clean sweep of all five states. Your wish may come true, MABlue!
I’m still hoping. I can’t go to bed until I know. I’ll look like a zombie tomorrow in the office but it’s absolutely worth it.
Really exciting!
I already look like a zombie, but I’m feeling better right now!
Mablue you will be alive and well, like never before tomorrow.
Yup and she is ahead in the other two! Usually the urban areas are last so that’s a great sign!
Marco Rubio dropped out because he was thirsty.
This needs to be the beginning with that guy. Florida voters need to recall his dumb non-working ass and kick him to the curb. Along with Cruz he is quite possibly the worst Senator that has ever been at least in my lifetime. Just another lazy ass pretty boy with no ability, no ideas and no ethics. The fact that this imbecile thinks he can/should be President of the USA is pretty damning towards our country.
He isn’t running for reelection. He’s already done.
Hillary is fired up!
I can’t stop crying for her, for our future, for all the years that I have invested myself, my life to her cause to fight, for human rights for everyone.
Sweet rewards coming, Fannie!
Madam President!!!
Sounds so sweet, so very sweet.
“More good jobs in infrastructure, more good jobs in manufacturing, more good jobs in small businesses.” — Clinton
Hillary says “equal pay for equal work for women,” and all of our vaginas just got so wet. Especially Evan’s.
http://wonkette.com/599711/lets-watch-little-marco-rubio-disappear-forever-your-super-toosday-liveblog#GY3YOdxhZILh3PPU.99 …
The Democratic Party WILL have our FIRST WOMAN nominee. #PrimaryDay #Hillary #ImWithHer
Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid 4m4 minutes ago
As much as they’ve bcome too numerous, I think Hillary Clinton wound up doing herself a lot of good with her OH town hall performance Sunday
Always, she has reflected “goodness” for all.
Can you make positive differences in people’s lives? Can you keep us safe? Can you bring us together again?”:
“This may be one of the most consequential campaigns of our lifetimes”: @HillaryClinton #Hillary2016
Can you hear me now! Yes, Hillary Clinton, let us drive you to the White House in 2016.
Oh hell yes, Madame President!
That was a great speech.
Bernie outspent Hillary in every one of these states.
He did. He might just get Missouri. I don’t know they are saying it’s not a clean sweep.
He’s ahead in MO right now, but it doesn’t matter. He’ll never catch up now. She is going to be more than 300 pledged delegates ahead of him after tonight. Maybe even more.
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Isn’t it great that so many of us have been blogging together since early 2008 and we’re still talking to each other? We finally got our wish.
Yup. Just a bit more work to do!!!
Precisely!!!!
Love you, Pat!
I’m pack with memories, and there is no better than the SKYDANCERS, even when we see clouds, we finally got our sunshine girl, Hillary Clinton.
Thank y’all for giving me a home so I could enjoy this night with you. Love you all
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Glad to have so much Hillary family!!!
Yes!
Never in my life, did I think this night would come. We stand tonight, with a very hard working group of women. I am honored, and thank you all on behalf of all good citizens, thank you for speaking up, and working to get this done. Thank you.
8 years! Just a few more months and we’ll carry Hillary to the White House!
We will. Our office her restarts up in July with voter registration drive!
I love you all, I’ll never forget how much of a positive influence you were when I was younger. You fine people shaped me in more ways than you’ll ever know. Now, whether you want the credit for that or not… 😘
Love you, littleisis! All the best always.
Always interested in your insights too, littleisis!
Wow, you’re right, glad we’re taking this ride together!
“We finally got our wish.” Couldn’t have asked for more!
She deserves a night like this.
People that say she is “entitled” have it so backward. NOBODY works harder than Hills.
I am so thirrlled. I hope she is able to complete the sweep.
Yup! Me too!
Please please somebody get Kasich off the TV. Jesus H!
Get ready for Trump next.
I’m not even watching him, just listening. Is he hawing the Trump Wine & Steaks tonight?
I didn’t watch.
Hallelujah!!!
Illinois called for Strump!
Great win of Ohio. Glad that my concern about the crossovers was misplaced. The margin so far in OH is amazing. Put Sherrod Brown on the ticket, and we might win the general election by around 60-40%. I thought she and he together at the Ohio rally was very inspiring. She nade an excellent speech tonight, as she always does. I sent her more money earlier today. Very exciting night, even if we lose Missouri, as looks to be the likelihood.
Or tie?
Trump Cruz still close for Missouri. Still close for Dems in Missouri and Illinois.
Kansas City is still out. Do you think that favors Hillary or Sanders?
Hillary. KCMO is AA.
She could still win then. A lot of St. Louis is still being counted too.
East St Louis is AA and that’s IL and out. I think IL will go for Hillary.
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Lol
It might still run on tape delay, but as it stands MSNBC, CNN, and FOX all declined to carry Bernie Sanders’ speech tonight.
Really? He gave a speech? Why?
I don’t know why they they didn’t cover Sanders’ speech, although I can hope. NBC’s Mark Murray was retweeting bits from it from a correspondent. It was just the same old crap: Goldman-Sachs, transcripts, and so forth. I gather the only channel that carried it was C-SPAN.
That’s hilarious. Loser!
So he could yell and shake his finger again about how it’s all the untrustworthiness of that smart, intelligent, experienced candidate who several million people tonight trusted with their vote.
As a Midwesterner by birth, I believe one reason Bernie lost so big in Ohio was his negative campaigning. People out there like nice better than nasty.
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Wow, no teeth, no pliers, what about the gums?
I rejoiced with my Ohioan former college roommate tonight who crossed over to support Kasich. Trump’s speech was again all about him and his wins. He has to be defeated and kicked back to tower. The world doesn’t understand such an egotist to the millionth degree and may hate him already. Americans deserve better than this billionaire.
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Women sometimes think they have to play like the boyz they are itch, unfortunately, she was with a shouter. But she didn’t shaker her finger and point. 😏
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Never a cross word either. I can’t believe it.
No he talked about her speech transcripts and superpacs.
Funny, Bernie, but those issues were seen as nonexistent by all her voters. 😀
He’s not very good with specifics, ya know.
It’s interesting that the 3% spread in MO accounts for only 9,000 votes. So there are only 300,000 dem voters in MO?
Districts with high AA population are still being counted.
I had to step away. Did I miss anything? Looks like MO and IL are still too close to call. Boy but the GOP boys do go on. Trump’s speech went on for about 8 hours. And now Cruz is putting even his own audience to sleep. No sign of wrapping up.
Trump appears to be eking out mo.
TrickyTed Cruz finally said: “If I…”.
Maybe it is beginning to set in that he just doesn’t work well with others and most people don’t believe in an angry God or that he is the Second Coming as his Dad proclaims.
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We need to keep mocking the media like this.
We really do, if only for the laughs. The kickback on Morning Joe’s comment about her voice was hilarious.
I’m giving myself a full day to revel in the misery of the berniebots online, then try to follow Hillary’s lead and be nice to his disappointed supporters.
I just went over to DailyKos. There are some really angry and disappointed Dudebros tonight.
Oh yeah, Markos brings down the hammer tonight! Lol.
…They are probably planning to travel in packs to the remaining caucus states.
Speaking of mocking the media, the Guardian had this egg-on-our-faces paragraph still up:
Gotta eat your words tonight!
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/mar/15/ohio-primary-tactical-voting-super-tuesday-3
CNN spends the vast majority of its coverage talking about Trump and the Republicans. The Republican primary numbers keep exceeding the Democratic turnouts,which is some concern. But I think that plenty of Democrats will come out to stop Trump. However, the fact that Trump is all the media talks about, is part of the problem.
Other than that, a wonderful night, even if we lose the last two; and Illinois seems very positive.
Lost my internet for a minute. IL reporting 86.4% Clinton 50.7%, Sanders 48.5%
90.8% reporting: Clinton 50.6%, Sanders 48.6%
MO 92.7% Sanders 50.3%, Clinton 48.6%, Trump 41.2%, Cruz 40.9% Still no wins.
““We’re now entering a period where we think we’ll win most if not all of the contests before the April 19 primary in New York,” said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Mr. Sanders.”
Absolutely delusional!
Bwahaha, Mr. Devine, you still won’t catch up on delegates!
And he adds this wild fantasy:
It’s rather cruel to Bernie’s supporters, to mislead them like this. So many of them are so gullible or naive on the one hand, or nearly delusional in their rage against Clinton on the other, it’s just not right.
MO 94.4% reporting Sanders 49.9%, Clinton 49%!?! Trump 41.2%, Cruz 40.8% with 92.8% reporting.
It’s really is going to be close, both ST Louis Co, and Jackson Co with the biggest population and leaning Clinton.
“Claims”? “Refused to call on Sanders to exit”? WTF is with these reporters — they are frankly making up excuses for their bias. Fortunately the voters are listening to Hillary, not the media.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/mar/15/election-live-coverage-florida-ohio-primary-trump-sanders-rubio-clinton-kasich
Cnn calls IL for Clinton!
You go, Hillary!
So does Wapo!
Woo-Hoo! Madame President is even further on her way!
MO 97.5% reporting Trump 41%, Cruz 40.7%, Sanders 49.7%, Clinton 49.3%. 2200 votes !?!
Clinton just won St Louis Co. That leaves Jackson and Buchanan co.
The graph for “How the Votes Came In” has Hillary holding steady to slight increase, while Bernie is trending slightly down. Come on, MO!
What a world of difference. Hillary, in her victory speech in Florida, thanks Sen Sanders for his “vigorous campaign” and the crowd cheers. Contrast that with the Bernie crowd who booed and hissed at Sanders’ mention of Hillary.
I love this woman’s kindness and compassion.
She is one classy lady.
MO 98.8% reporting Clinton 49.6%, Sanders 49.4%………………………….
She is 1199 votes ahead!!!! This could turn into a recount demand.
According the the NYT Hillary pulls ahead in MO with 99% reporting!
They still haven’t called MO for Trump@ 41% vs Cruz 40.7% and 97.5% reporting/
Buchanan is 96.3% reporting,but they can’t make the difference by themselves. Jackson Co is just under 90% and contains Kansas City. She is ahead there 53.4% vs 45.8%
99.2% Clinton 49.6%, Sanders 49.4%
Geez, Trump 40.9% vs Cruz 40.7%
Jackson Co 100% Clinton won! It looks like I missed Cass Co under 98%.
I’m so excited about this!
99.9% I think she is going to pull it out.
MO — Hillary ahead! Trending up!
bites fingernails/
Grand slam, grand slam, grand slam, come onnnnnn baby……
100% reporting but they haven’t called it yet.
They called them all! Had to go celebrate!
NY Times hasn’t yet. Jerks.
Yup. She swept all five states
I’m stunned. omgomgomg
Hill A Ree…… Hill A Ree…..Hill A Ree….
Madame President!
Blowing kisses to all SkyDancers!
Hugz all around! She nailed it!
Hill A Ree…… Hill A Ree…..Hill A Ree….!!!
Check the Rachel video on my facebook. She’s flummoxed!
HAHHAH
“Check the Rachel video on my facebook. She’s flummoxed!”
Is being flummoxed similar to being screwed? 🙂
Can you post the Rachel video here. I’m not on facebook.
I’ll try. It’s just from my friends iPhone of her TV. I’ll see if I can grab it.
I’m so happy!!
Hee, Hee, Hee, YAY!!!
I still keep tearing up about it! I used to tell my girls they could be anything they wanted to be and still do! Hillary will show all little girls we can really do that!
The. Best. Election. Night. of. my. Life!!!!!!!!!!
Except for the one coming up in Nov 2016!
….dancing….
Happy Dance this morning!
Onward and upward to the next!
‘Nite all! Sweet, sweet, sweet dreams of victory!
Very sweet!
Now they are talking about CA being an issue.
Yea. Right. Well it keeps Hillary in the news.
Congratulation Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, Senator from the Great State of New York, Secretary of State and Next President of these United States!!!
I can’t WAIT!
Yeehaa!
She’s on her way!
Whines about super delegates and now wants to be rescued by them. Uh huh.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-longshot-victory-superdelegates-220847
How quickly they forget history!
Woke up in the middle of the night to peek at the results. SWEEP!!!!!!! Of course the media is still considering MO too close to call but it isn’t, it’s hers.
Best comment in the NYT article about this:
Sure shows the difference between the two candidates.
Bob, go take care of yourself, the campaign will continue, but we want you well!😧
Damn spellcheck, that was supposed to be: BB.
Oh thanks, I was wondering who Bob was! 🙂
Me too!
Thanks, Joanelle! I’m hugging myself this morning. This is so wonderful–a clean sweep of five states.
Millennials chanting: “I believe that she will win, I believe that she will win…”
🙂
PEACE
Anyone else thinking that whomever is holding up the voting results in MO might be doing it deliberately to prevent the media from being able to say that Clinton swept last night?
CNN isn’t waiting however, I saw a headline on FB that Clinton did in fact sweep.
I would be dancing with joy if my knee weren’t screwed up. I’m happy anyway!
Momentum!!!
I don’t know This fellow Obsma has chosen. I wonder if he is the sacrificial lamb before the real pick.
Merrick Garland is a moderate who would side more with the left than the right. It’s a smart move by Obama because if the Senate will not consider his nomination, the GOP will come off as deliberately obstructionist and it will hurt them in the general election. If they do approve him, we’ll be fine as far as the court goes. I think Bill Clinton appointed Garland to his federal judgeship.
It also means if they look bad and he can’t get through, Hillary gets the next pick!
Exactly!!!! And that’s why Hillary mentioned the SCOTUS nomination last night in her VICTORY speech.
Merrill Garland. Harrumph. Judy Garland was pretty good so maybe he’ll be alright.
Rise Hillary Rise. Hear your voice angelou!
I thought y’all might enjoy looking at the exit polling from FL and OH. I want you to look closely at the vote of white men.
Florida
http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/fl/Dem
Ohio
http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/oh/Dem
Kewl! Thx!
New thread up above!!! Come on up.