Super Tuesday GOP Results: Donald Trump Wins Big, But Ted Cruz Gets 3 States

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Ted Cruz is the winner of the 2016 Alaska Republican caucus Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Donald Trump came in second.

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11:21 p.m. Eastern: Marco Rubio finally gets his victory. The Associated Press has called Minnesota for the Florida Senator and for many of the GOP establishment, their pick for the Republican nomination.

The win should give Rubio at least a little bit of momentum going into the Florida primary in two weeks.

Also notable: Trump, who bragged Tuesday night about how he hadn't finished no lower than second, looks like he'll finish in third behind Cruz.

Only 39 more minutes til polls close in Alaska! /downs another Red Bull.

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10:34 p.m. Eastern: It looks like Vermont will split its 10 delegates right down the middle between Trump and Kasich.

The Minnesota Caucuses are too close to call, with Rubio in a surprising first place.

Otherwise, all that's left for the GOP is Alaska, where polls close at midnight Eastern. Anybody got some more coffee?

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10:26 p.m. Eastern: We'll take a reset to look up at the scoreboard:

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10:23 p.m. Eastern: Cruz: "America shouldn’t have a president whose words would make you embarrassed if your children repeated them.”

Just as he was delivering that zinger, the AP called Arkansas for Trump.

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10:19 p.m. Eastern: Cruz in a speech in Houston called for the remaining non-Trump candidates to unite behind himself.

Trump would be a “disaster for Republicans, for conservatives and for the nation," Cruz said.

"And after tonight, we have seen that our campaign is the only campaign that has beaten, that can beat and that will beat Donald Trump."

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10:15 p.m. Eastern: Arkansas and Vermont are still too close to call, though Cruz has overtaken Rubio for second place in Arkansas. Trump still has a nearly 7-point lead there.

In Vermont, Trump's lead over Kasich continued to shrink, with Kasich polling just 1.8 percentage points behind Trump.

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9:45 p.m. Eastern:Trump took several not-so-thinly veiled shots at Clinton in a victory speech (after being introduced by Chris Christie).

“If she hasn’t straightened it out by now, she’s not going to straighten it out in the next four years,” Trump said. “She wants to ‘make America whole again,’ and I’m trying to figure out what that’s all about. ‘Make America great again’ is going to be much better than ‘make America whole again.’”

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9:07 p.m. Eastern: Make it one more for Cruz. The AP is calling Oklahoma for the Texas Senator.

Meanwhile in Miami, Rubio, who still have yet to win a state in this election, gave an impassioned speech to supporters in his home state of Florida.

“Five days ago we began to explain to the American people that Donald Trump is a con artist,” Rubio said. “The presidency will never be held by a con artist.”

Rubio trails Trump by just 2.7 percent in Arkansas early.

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9 p.m. Eastern: Down Goes Donald: Trump has been dealt his first defeat of the night, according to projections from several news outlets, who have Cruz beating Trump in Texas, Cruz’s home state.

Cruz is also leading Trump in Oklahoma, 33.3 percent to 30.5 percent with 33 percent of precincts reporting.

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8:49 p.m. Eastern: Sorry Marco. Several major news outlets have called Virginia for Trump. He held a 36.1 to 31 percent lead over Rubio with 80 percent of precincts reporting.

That’s five wins in five states that have been called.

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8:30 p.m. Eastern: Make it three different candidates in three different states: Trump is projected to be in a close race with Ted Cruz in Arkansas, where polls just closed.

That puts him in too-close-to-call territory in Arkansas with Cruz, Virginia with Rubio and Vermont with Kasich.

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8:25 p.m. Eastern: Trump’s lead in Virginia is shrinking, with Rubio just 6.8 percentage points behind Trump, with 60 percent of precincts reporting.

In Vermont, Trump leads Kasich by 7.3 percentage points with 10 percent of precincts reporting.

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8 p.m Eastern: Donald Trump was declared the winner in Massachusetts, Alabama and Tennessee as soon as polls closed in those states, making him four-for-four in states that have been called so far tonight.

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7 p.m. Eastern: Donald Trump has been declared the winner in Georgia by several major news outlets, as polls in three states closed on Super Tuesday. Trump was in a tight race with Marco Rubio in Virginia, and it was a close call in Vermont early between Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

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Live state totals from the Patch Network:

• MA 2016 Republican Presidential Primary Results
• VA 2016 Republican Presidential Primary Results: Voters Get Their Say
• Georgia Republican Primary Results
• Super Tuesday: Texas 2016 Republican Primary Results
• Super Tuesday 2016 GOP Results And Winner: Polls Open Across Arkansas
• Super Tuesday: Minnesota 2016 Caucus Results
• Oklahoma 2016 Republican Presidential Primary Results
• VT 2016 Republican Presidential Primary Results: Voters Get Their Say

FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

Republican Winners of Super Tuesday States | InsideGov

Original story below

Super Tuesday – with voters in 12 states heading to the polls or caucus sites – could make the Republican presidential nomination largely inevitable for Donald Trump, political experts say.

The biggest prizes – the states with the most delegates up for grabs – are Texas and Georgia. Nearly a quarter of all delegates to the national conventions will be decided when Super Tuesday is over.

»SEE ALSO: Super Tuesday 2016 Results: Hillary Clinton Looking To Dominate Again

States choosing Republican delegates on Super Tuesday are:

• Alabama: 50 delegates
• Alaska: 28 delegates
• Arkansas: 40 delegates
• Georgia: 76 delegates
• Massachusetts: 42 delegates
• Minnesota: 38 delegates
• Oklahoma: 43 delegates
• Tennessee: 58 delegates
• Texas: 155 delegates
• Vermont: 16 delegates
• Virginia: 49 delegates

Republican New York businessman Trump and Democrat former Secretary of State Clinton had sizable leads in polls of their respective primaries, according to Real Clear Politics. The newest CNN/ORC polls gave Clinton a 55 percent to 38 percent lead over Sanders nationally.

• Patch will update this story with vote totals as they come in.

Georgia, along with Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, were all holding their primaries Tuesday in an effort to give the South a greater say in choosing both parties’ White House candidates. And voters in American Samoa go to the polls today.

In the Texas capital of Austin, a handful of voters said they had trouble with voting machines.

A conservative radio station reported that some half-dozen polling machines in the county were automatically switching people’s votes from Donald Trump to Marco Rubio.

At least three voters called into KLBJ radio station’s “Todd and Don Show” to report the alleged unauthorized switcheroo.

Voting officials said they are investigating.

In spite of recent controversial statements on white supremacists and nasty exchanges at the most recent Republican debate, Trump continued to lead the GOP field. He had 49 percent support compared to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 16 percent and Cruz’s 15 percent in a new CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday. Dr. Ben Carson followed with 10 percent supporter, trailed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 6 percent.

Even Kasich predicts Trump was likely to win all the Republican contests on Tuesday. Kasich told CNN: “I think Trump’s probably going to win all of them.”

But that didn’t faze Kasich, who said he will win Ohio’s March 15 primary, and the large crowds he’s drawn at campaign events will turn into wins in other spring primaries.

Texas – home state of Iowa Caucus winner Sen. Ted Cruz – had the most delegates to award on Tuesday, with 155. If Cruz can’t win Texas, his GOP bid is crippled, political watchers predict.

The latest numbers from a Vermont Public Radio poll showed the state’s independent streak was paying off for anti-establishment candidate Trump. He led the Republican field with 32 percent of the vote in that poll, with Rubio coming up second with roughly 17 percent of likely Republican voters in his corner.

We’ll have breaking coverage of Super Tuesday poll results for every state here.

Images of GOP candidates via Gage Skidmore, Flickr, used under Creative Commons