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Trump wins 9 delegates in Northern Mariana Islands

Donald Trump has won the Republican caucus in the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote U.S. territory that consists of 15 islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Trump took home 73 percent of the vote and will win all nine delegates, according to Jason Osborne, who was the executive director of the local Republican Party.

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.

Ted Cruz finds new allies in GOP establishment he rails against

Sen. Ted Cruz stood on a stage straddling the lanes of a dragway at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, speaking directly to blue-collar workers with “calluses on your hands” and railing against the political establishment — prompting cheers and stomps on the metal bleachers.

Meanwhile in Florida, a group of volunteers, including wealthy donors who supported Jeb Bush’s candidacy, was knocking on doors this weekend in Jacksonville, asking voters to cast ballots for Cruz (Tex.) in Tuesday’s Republican primary.

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 >>

Cruz wins 9 delegates in Wyoming

Ted Cruz won a comfortable majority of the vote in Wyoming Republicans’ county conventions Saturday, banking 9 new delegates in the process.

At conventions held in counties throughout the state, delegates promising to vote for Cruz received 66 percent of the vote statewide. Marco Rubio came in second with 20 percent of the vote.