For kasich it was a case of 'When one victory at the half way mark' defines a campaign
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Photographers struggled to capture an image of Kasich in the mountain of confetti as he celebrated with his family
Hillary wins it all in the Tuesday primaries while Trump wins THREE states on ‘Super Tuesday Three’ and forces Rubio OUT of the race with a landslide victory in Florida:
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The Donald gets 45% of the vote to crush Marco in his home state - but Kasich thumps the tycoon
Donald Trump has led every Republican presidential poll in Florida since last July
Marco Rubio dropped out of the race after a poor showing in his home state and thanked his supporters
As a result, Trump took home the a 99-delegate prize for the winner, the night's largest
Ohio's 66 delegates went to Governor John Kasich, a rare defeat for Trump that has kept Kasich's campaign alive
Trump however won Illinois and North Carolina to take him one step closer to securing the nomination
Hillary Clinton won the Democratic races in Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, a crushing blow for Bernie Sanders
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Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders participate in the debate hosted by NBC News and YouTube on Jan. 17, 2016, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Hillary Clinton scored a victory in Florida on Tuesday, claiming another large pool of delegates in her pursuit of the Democratic nomination.
The former secretary of state headed into Florida with a significant lead in the polls -- 60 percent to rival Sen. Bernie Sanders' 32.5 percent, according to HuffPost Pollster's polling average.
With 214 pledged delegates, Florida represents the biggest cache up for grabs this week. It is the third-most-populous state, and has large Latino and African-American populations. Clinton has dominated so far with non-white voters.Florida is often seen as a bellwether in the general election, a state with a large and diverse electorate that is often tightly split between the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates.
Clinton won Florida handily in 2008 over Barack Obama, but due to a dispute over the date of the state's primary, the Democratic National Committee cut its total number of delegates for the 2016 election by half. Former President Bill Clinton was in Florida this week stumping for his wife.
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Donald Trump added 99 delegates to his Republican National Convention total on Tuesday night with a crushing victory in Florida's Republican primary election - ending Marco Rubio's bid for the White House. He also took home victories in Illinois and North Carolina
Donald Trump took another step closer to the Republican nomination on Tuesday night with a crushing victories in Florida and Illinois, and a narrower victory in North Carolina, cementing his GOP front-runner status while sending one of his rivals to the showers.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s suspended his White House campaign after surrendering his home state. Trump tipped his hat to the man 25 years his junior, and then slammed him for spending so much money to try to defeat him.
'I want to congratulate Marco Rubio on having run a really tough campaign,' Trump told a crowd of socialites and journalists at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. 'He's tough. He's smart, and he's got a great future.'
'But I have to say, nobody has ever, ever in the history of politics, received the amount of negative advertising I have,' Trump carped.
Most of it, he claimed, was 'false, vicious, horrible.'
'it added up to over $40 million' in Florida alone, Trump said. 'And you explain it to me, because I can't. My numbers went up!'
Ohio Gov. John Kasich won in his home state, offsetting what might otherwise have been a devastating night for the rest of the GOP field.
Missouri's primary contest remained too close to call as the night wore on but it looked likely that Trump would win there, too. With 99 per cent of votes counted, he held an edge of just 0.3 per cent over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who – like Rubio – won no primaries all night.
Florida's winner-take-all rules, shared by Ohio's Tuesday primary matchup, translate to a windfall of 99 convention delegates for The Donald, and signaled the end of Rubio's run.
While Florida was a Trump-friendly bloodbath, Ohio's 66-delegate race ended as a rare defeat for him – and the only one so far at Kasich's hands.
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