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What We’re Watching as 5 States Hold Crucial Primaries

The Republican presidential campaign will not end next week, or even next month. But voters in the five states casting ballots on Tuesday will go a long way toward determining whether Donald J. Trump can win the 1,237 delegates necessary to claim the party’s nomination.

Home-Turf Tuesday: What to watch in today’s primaries

Home, it is said, is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Tuesday gives three candidates a chance to test that axiom.

This could be it, folks. The Republican presidential primary may be settled — or at least a lot clearer — on Tuesday. Republicans will vote in six contests. Donald Trump is looking to stay on track to win a majority of states, if not delegates. Marco Rubio and John Kasich could be making their last stands. And Ted Cruz is hoping he’s in a two-man race with Trump come Wednesday.

Several large states vote tomorrow including two states, Florida and Ohio, that are home to two of the four remaining Republican candidates for president. Both are winner-take-all on the GOP side, raising the stakes significantly from past contests where delegates were divvied up between competing candidates in most cases.

While businessman Donald Trump leads Sen. Marco Rubio in Rubio’s home state of Florida according to recent polling, the race in Ohio is neck-and-neck between Trump and Gov. John Kasich, as CBS ... Read More >>

Rubio wins District of Columbia convention

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has won the Washington D.C., Republican convention with 37 percent of the vote, delivering a small but much needed infusion of delegates to his campaign.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich finished a close second with 36 percent. Donald Trump came in third place with 14 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had 12 percent.

Breaking down the GOP map

Tuesday might be the most decisive day of the 2016 GOP campaign. Depending on the results, one or more of the remaining candidates might be forced to drop out. And Donald Trump might be unstoppable.

If Trump rolls to victories in Florida and Ohio — the first states on the calendar this year that award every single delegate to the statewide winner — his lead becomes all but insurmountable. Without home-state wins, Marco Rubio and John Kasich would have little cause to continue.

Inside Cruz’s state-by-state plan to defeat Trump

It sounds like a nightmare for Donald Trump’s opponents: he sweeps Ohio and Florida on Tuesday and storms ahead with more than half the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination.

But for Ted Cruz, it would be a dream — if it forces Marco Rubio and John Kasich to quit — that delivers the two-man contest he’s been wanting for months.