2016: The Weekend That Was

In case you were otherwise engaged living life and enjoy the day…..I will give you the mark-up on the races that made the weekend bearable for the media…..

First the Repubs……

Ted Cruz picked up two double-digit victories against Donald Trump Saturday night with wins in Kansas and Maine, though Trump won much tighter contests in Louisiana and Kentucky. Trump will retain a sizable overall lead in delegates, but the Cruz wins show “there’s no quick end in sight to the fractious GOP race,” notes AP. Cruz’s victory in Kansas was especially decisive: He received 48% of the vote, well ahead of Trump (23%), Marco Rubio (17%), and John Kasich (11%). The results in Maine, another caucus, were a bit closer: Cruz (46%), Trump (33%), Kasich (12%), and Rubio (8%). Trump’s wins over Cruz, meanwhile, will likely end up being in the single digits, with Rubio having a weak night all around. In fact, Trump called on him to drop out in his post-results address to supporters, reports Politico.

“It’s time,” he said, adding, “I want Ted one on one.” In his own address, delivered early in the night, Cruz told supporters in Idaho that “what we’re seeing is the public coming together, libertarians coming together, men and women who love the Constitution coming together and uniting and standing as one behind this campaign.”

And now the adults in the room (as scary as that may sound)…..the Dems…….

Bernie Sanders has won the two Democratic caucuses of the night in Kansas and Nebraska, but Hillary Clinton countered with a big win in the Louisiana primary, reports CNN. The network called the latter race soon after polls closed at 9 Eastern, with African-American voters again giving her an easy victory. With 58 delegates at stake, Louisiana is the single biggest prize of the night. Kansas has 37 at stake and Nebraska 30. Which means that while Sanders has bragging rights after winning two of three, “the results were not likely to alter the broader contours of a race in which Mrs. Clinton maintains a significant delegate lead,” observes the New York Times.

The only thing you missed was the implosion of Rubio…the man could not buy votes last weekend….his only dim hope is looking like Florida….plus it gives the MSM something to speculate over for the next week or so….

See your time was better spent on other endeavors……leave the mundane crap to me.

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