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[h=2]<span style="color: Red;">*</span>[/h]John Kasich speaks during a campaign stop on March 14, 2016, at Westerville Central High School in Westerville, Ohio.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Matt Rourke, AP)
[h=2]GOP: Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wins Florida, pushing Marco Rubio<span style="color: Red;">*</span>out; Kasich wins Ohio[/h]Trump will take all of Florida's 99 delegates. His win dealt the fatal blow<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to the campaign of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. who announced shortly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>after polls closed in Florida that he will drop out.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The Florida senator said the country is in the middle of a political tsunami that “we should have seen coming.”
“People are frustrated,” he said, citing the effects of the economic recession of 2008 and the broken immigration system.
Rubio said he tried to bridge the divide in the Republican Party and the country during the past 11 months, but that it’s clear “we will not be on the winning side.”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich was able to close the deal and fend off Trump in his home state.
"I'm just so appreciative of the people of Ohio," he said on CNN.
"We're going to get a lot of momentum," Kasich predicted.
[h=2]Hillary<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Clinton wins Florida, Ohio, North Carolina[/h]Tuesday is shaping up to be a great night for the former secretary of State.
More results in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Illinois, North Carolina<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and Missouri<span style="color: Red;">*</span>are still coming ...
In the meantime, here are other happenings from home-turf Tuesday:
[h=2]Dems mourn Marco Roboto[/h]Within minutes of Rubio announcing he was dropping out,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the party re-upped its mimicking of the senator's robotic answers during a debate before the New Hampshire primary.
Democrats actually dressed up as robots, including ones dubbed "Marco Roboto" and "Talking Point<span style="color: Red;">*</span>3000,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and taunted Rubio and his supporters in the Granite State.
[h=2]Trump is big in Saipan. No, really.[/h]Republicans in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands were the first to settle their choice Tuesday, or Monday as it were on the U.S. East Coast.
Donald Trump was the clear winner in the island chain near Guam. USA TODAY's Paul Singer has the count:
"Trump took 343 votes of the 471 total cast in the CNMI Republican caucuses, giving him about 73% of the total and all 9 delegates. Ted Cruz got 113 votes, John Kasich got 10 and Marco Rubio got 5 votes."[h=2]Poll worker pulls gun in Cleveland[/h]Things apparently got a little out of hand at Louisa May Alcott Elementary School in Cleveland on Tuesday.
A poll worker got into an argument with another worker and whipped a .380 out of his backpack and “verbally threatened people” before fleeing the polling station, Cleveland.com reports. Police arrested him and charged him with “aggravated menacing.”
No word yet on what the argument was about.
[h=2]Anonymous hackers declare war on Trump[/h]The folks over at USA TODAY College report that the group is asking followers to shut down Trump websites because of his “appalling actions and ideas."
[h=2]Trump ‘tiny hands’ Pac is ‘dead<span style="color: Red;">*</span>serious’[/h]We caught up with the guy who registered the “Trump Has Tiny Hands PAC” with the Federal Election Commission (which<span style="color: Red;">*</span>changed its name Monday after an FEC warning to “Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands PAC").
Henry Kraemer, who was picking up lunch from a food truck in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, said his mission is “dead serious” and says the group wants to “make sure no voter walked into the voting booth, thinking that he has regular-size hands.”
“It’s really a national security issue. Say at 3 a.m., the phone rings in the White House. The American people need to know if Mr. Trump’s tiny baby hands will be able to even grasp the receiver," he said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"And if when he inevitably decides to launch a nuclear attack against another nation, there’s a great risk that his shrimp fingers won’t be able to push the button down all the way.”
Screenshot of political committee registration form.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Donovan Slack, USA TODAY.)
Kraemer said he is an organizer with a nonprofit, but the PAC is unrelated to his work. He said it also was unrelated to a taunt by Marco Rubio a few weeks ago that the real estate mogul had small hands and is in no way suggestive of anatomical challenges in other, ahem, areas.
“We have no interest in any other body part of Donald Trump’s,” Kraemer said. “The issue is whether or not he’ll be able to shake another world leader’s hand without having his weak tiny fingers crushed, which would embarrass the entire country abroad for decades.”
OK, you’re kidding, right? This is performance art or something?
“This is dead serious," he said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"It’s a fragile time for our nation and we need to make sure that the president has an adult-sized grip on the issues facing the day.”
Um, OK.
[h=2]Bill Clinton: Bernie Sanders is 'blame candidate'[/h]Campaigning for his wife in Illinois on Tuesday, the former president was asked about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders surge in polling in the state.
"This should be a race for president. There is a blame candidate and a responsibility candidate in this race," he said according to NBC.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"I'm betting the responsibility candidate will win."
The race between Clinton and Sanders has grown increasingly tight in Illinois in recent polling. Clinton is ahead 48.3%-46% on average, according to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>RealClearPolitics. Could be a squeaker.
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[h=2]Facebookers obsessed with …[/h]The social media site tallied what people are posting about and sharing in the five states voting today. Here are the top subjects:
• Florida:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Cuba
•<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Illinois:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Racial issues
•<span style="color: Red;">*</span>MissouriandNorth Carolina:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Religion
•<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ohio:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Education
And here are the candidates with the most interactions during the past month on Facebook:
• Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Yep, none of the others even came close. And Trump stirred far more conversation than Clinton, unsurprisingly. This includes posts, likes, comments, and shares for the five states combined:
1. Donald Trump:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>68,382,000
2. Hillary Clinton: 26,095,000
3. Bernie Sanders: 18,410,000
4. Ted Cruz: 10,678,000
5. Marco Rubio: 5,983,000
6. John Kasich: 2,753,000
[h=2]Yes, Floridians, the Donald is on the ballot[/h]Trump caused something of a stir when he tweeted about ballot issues to his 6.93 million followers.
A lot of complaints from people saying my name is not on the ballot in various places in Florida? Hope this is false.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2016
Within an hour, the Florida secretary of state had to set the record straight:
But there was some confusion. Unless Floridians registered affiliation with either the Democratic or Republican parties before Feb. 16, they were not allowed to vote in the presidential primaries, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>News-Pressin Fort Myers reports.
In Palm Beach County, Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher told the Palm Beach Post that many voters didn’t realize that. The county has 845,165 registered voters with 245,400 unaffiliated as of today. "We have dozens and they're really mad. Traditionally they haven't voted in primaries," Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher told the Post.
[h=2]Meanwhile in Washington …[/h]TWIMG
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President Obama, attending a St. Patrick’s Day lunch at the Capitol, derided divisive rhetoric on the campaign trail and called for some introspection.
“It’s worth asking ourselves what each of us may have done to contribute to this kind of vicious atmosphere in our politics.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>I suspect that all of us can recall some intemperate words that we regret.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Certainly, I can.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>He then proposed a toast to luncheon guest Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Happy St. Pat’s!
"And while some may be more to blame than others for the current climate, all of us are responsible for reversing it.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> For it is a cycle that is not an accurate reflection of America.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> And it has to stop.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> And I say that not because it’s a matter of ‘political correctness,’ it’s about the way that corrosive behavior can undermine our democracy, and our society, and even our economy.”
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