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10 p.m.
Bernie Sanders tells an enthusiastic suburban
St. Louis crowd that he can win
Missouri's
Democratic primary Tuesday, but only if his supporters flood the polls.
The
Vermont senator spoke to several thousand supporters Monday night at a rally in the
Family Arena in
St. Charles, Missouri, a largely
Republican St. Louis suburb.
A recent poll showed
Hillary Clinton with a slight lead over Sanders in Missouri, one of five states holding primaries Tuesday.
Sanders says he began his campaign at 3 percent in the polls. Now, he noted, he has won nine state primaries or caucuses.
Clinton, he says, is no longer considered the inevitable
Democratic nominee.
Sanders, his voice hoarse, predicted a win in Missouri — if turnout is large enough.
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8:30 p.m.
More than 2 million
Florida voters have already made their choice for president in the state's winner-take-all primary.
The state Division of
Elections reported late Monday that almost
1.2 million
Republicans had cast ballots, compared with nearly 850,
000 Democrats.
Projections are that about 4 million voters will have participated in the Florida primary.
Election day is Tuesday, but voters in the
Sunshine State have been voting for weeks via absentee and early in-person voting. It is a closed primary.
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8:15 p.m.
Authorities in
North Carolina say there isn't enough evidence to press charges against
Donald Trump for his behavior in connection with a violent altercation at one of his rallies last week.
In a statement issued Monday night, the
Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said legal counsel advised and
Sheriff Earl "
Moose"
Butler agreed that the evidence doesn't meet the requisites of
North Carolina law to support a conviction for inciting a riot.
The sheriff's office said while other aspects of its investigation are continuing, the investigation related to
Trump and his campaign is over and no charges are anticipated.
At the rally last Wednesday in
Fayetteville, a man was hit in the face while being escorted out.
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8 p.m.
Donald Trump is getting in his final digs at
Ohio Gov.
John Kasich a day before the state's
Republican presidential primary.
Trump is tearing down
Kasich in front of thousands of Ohioans in an airplane hangar in
Vienna Township.
Trump says, "Kasich cannot make
America great again." He says Kasich's only economic success stems from Ohio's newly thriving petroleum industry.
Kasich has pulled even with Trump in some Ohio polls, and ahead in others. Trump is blasts Kasich for supporting the
North American Free Trade Agreement when Kasich was a
U.S. House member from Ohio.
However, Trump seemed unaware that
Chevrolet, which builds the
Chevy Cruze sedan in nearby
Lordstown, Ohio, was planning to build the 2017 hatchback model in
Mexico.
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7:33 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate
Marco Rubio is telling voters that those who pick him as their next president will be choosing "optimism over pessimism."
Speaking to a large crowd of mostly supporters on the eve of the Florida primary,
Rubio says the country "cannot afford to lose this and, we will, if we nominate the wrong person to lead this party," in a reference to front-runner Donald Trump.
Trump is leading Rubio by double-digits in the latest polls in what is a must-win primary for the Florida senator to keep his campaign alive.
Rubio was making the third of four stops in
West Palm Beach. His final stop was to be in
West Miami, his childhood home.
- published: 15 Mar 2016
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