Clinton and Trump Overwhelming Win

United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has won the South Carolina primary over rival Bernie Sanders, propelling her into next week’s crucial “Super Tuesday” voting in 11 states on a wave of momentum.

With almost all of the votes counted on Saturday night, Clinton was easily winning with more than 73 percent. “To South Carolina, to the volunteers at the heart of our campaign, to the supporters who power it: thank you,” Clinton tweeted after major US networks all called the vote in her favor at the close of polls.

Huge cheers broke out at the venue in Columbia, South Carolina, where Clinton was due to deliver a victory speech to supporters. “Tomorrow, this campaign goes national!” Mrs. Clinton said as she dedicated her victory to parents, teachers and “the entrepreneur told me more dreams die in the parking lots of banks than anywhere else,” particularly among women and minorities. Without mentioning Mr. Trump by name, Mrs. Clinton repeated a biblical anecdote from I Corinthians and said the country needed more “love and kindness.” (Mr. Trump botched a reference to II Corinthians last month.)

“Despite what you hear, we don’t need to make America great again,” Mrs. Clinton said to raucous applause as she took aim at Mr. Trump’s slogan. “America has never stopped being great.”

“It’s time, it’s time, it’s time for a woman in the White House,” the crowd chanted.

Sanders immediately congratulated his rival, while vowing to fight on for the party’s presidential nomination.
“This campaign is just beginning,” he said in a statement.

“We won a decisive victory in New Hampshire. She won a decisive victory in South Carolina. Now it’s on to Super Tuesday.”

“Sanders says he is not giving up…but he is struggling to prove that he is a viable candidate,” she said.

The win was Clinton’s third victory in the first four Democratic contests, and solidified her status as the strong frontrunner to capture the party’s nomination for the November 8 presidential election.

Donald Trump notched a resounding win in the Nevada caucuses Tuesday, channeling the roiling anger of Republican voters against the establishment and sweeping almost every category of the electorate to build his dominance in the delegate count.

It was a stunning show of momentum for his campaign, one that made it increasingly difficult to imagine a scenario where any other GOP candidate wins the Republican nomination.

“We love Nevada,” Trump said during his brief victory speech at his party in Las Vegas late Tuesday night. “We will be celebrating for a long time tonight.” “We weren’t expected to win too much and now we’re winning, winning, winning the country,” Trump said. “And soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning.”

He basked in his success across demographics.

“We won the evangelicals,” he said. “We won with young. With won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”

On Wednesday morning, he looked ahead to a Trump presidency, detailing the three things he’d do on Day 1 if he wins the White House.

“First thing is knock out some of the executive orders done by our president,” Trump told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “One, on border where people can pour into (the) country like Swiss cheese. I would knock out Obamacare. Take care of our vets and military,” the billionaire businessman said.

What about Super Tuesday? Cruz, who is now pinning his hopes on the Southern states that will dominate the upcoming Super Tuesday contests, has attempted to cobble together a coalition of evangelical and libertarian voters, but has faced a string of losses since his win in the Iowa caucuses.

In his speech Tuesday night, Cruz focused on Rubio’s loss to Trump rather than his own disappointing finish.

The results, he said, showed that “the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump and the only campaign that can beat Donald Trump is this campaign.”

“If you are one of the 65% of Republicans across this country who doesn’t think Donald is the best candidate to go head-to-head with Hillary, who believes we do better in elections when we actually nominate a conservative, then the first four states have performed a vital function of narrowing this race and presenting a clear choice,” the Texas senator said in his speech in Nevada Tuesday night.

But Trump steamrolled through all of that, capturing the excitement and buzz in the race with his visits here.

There was evidence of the firmness of Trump’s support in the entrance polls. Almost 70% of Nevada Republican caucus attendees said they made up their mind more than a week ago, while roughly 30% said they decided which candidate to pick in the last week.

Stay tuned for more for Super Tuesday!

Here are the two victory speeches for both leading candidates through YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdA4ru5Z1aI