Hillary Clinton swept all five democratic primaries on Tuesday night including Florida, Missouri, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio. Donald Trump won four of the five republican primaries.
According to Real Clear Politics Clinton won Florida by over half a million votes while Trump won the state by over 440,000 votes. Clinton won Ohio by over 165,000 votes while Trump lost Ohio by over 229,000 votes to John Kasich, Ohio's governor.
The Clinton campaign sustained the momentum and Ohio and Florida were huge victories for her. Those who though her loss in Michigan would hurt her in those two states were wrong. The republicans lost another candidate when Marco Rubio, after a poor showing in his home state of Florida announced he was suspending his campaign. The party's Presidential candidates now number three after starting out with seventeen.
John Kasich ended Tuesday night with the least total of delegates (all primaries) than his three opponents. He was also quoted as saying the GOP could not avoid a brokered convention. Ohio was Kasich's first and only win so far. He finished fourth in Florida and third in Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. The media and others are now trying to sell Kasich as an alternate to Trump at the convention but Cruz will have a lot to say about that because he is in a strong second place position.
This writer believes Hillary Clinton has emerged as the one mature Presidential candidate in her campaign style, speeches, policy matters and her willingness to take on her opponents on the issues facing the country and its people. She is a fighter and the best qualified of all. She is also a serious public servant. It is hard to guess what the republican party will do at their convention. A fight and or brokered convention is not what the party or the country needs at this time. If a brokered convention comes about could the party go to some outsider as some have mentioned? It is some thing to ponder. Now that would be a real finale to the republican circus.
After Tuesday's primaries Clinton still leads Trump in the popular vote total 8,651,128 to Trumps 7,536,465 according to Real Clear Politics.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
