Protests, losses pile up for Trump

The double blow to Trump is an indication that the fight for securing the party’s nomination is hotting up.  Till date, Cruz has nine delegates to his kitty and Rubio 10 as they now set their sights on the crucial Republican party’s presidential primaries in the key states of Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina on March 15. 

Trump, the 69-year-old real estate tycoon, is said to be the favourite at this point of time as he has the maximum number of 460 delegates followed by Cruz (367), Rubio (153) and the Ohio Governor John Kasich 63.  

To win the party’s presidential nominee, the candidates need to have the support of 1,237 delegates out of a total of 2,472 delegates. On the Democratic side, front-runner Hillary Clinton won in the first ever Democratic Party caucus on the Northern Mariana Islands, a US possession deep in the Pacific Ocean. She won four delegates, while her rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, won two. 

Meanwhile, a protester tried to storm the stage while Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in the US state of Ohio but the Republican presidential front-runner brushed aside the latest incident of chaos at his events saying the man was “probably” an ISIS supporter. 

That incident itself came a day after Trump cancelled his campaign rally after hundreds of people gathered to protest against his “politics of hatred” and scuffled with his supporters in the largest-ever demonstration against the real estate tycoon. 

While reiterating that he would follow the law, Trump, at a rally, said that he is in favour of water boarding. “It works,” he said. “I am a non-violent person,” Trump said as he explained to the cheering crowd as to why he was for a strong stand against terror groups.

A significantly large part of his Kansas meeting was devoted on the protesters, as one after another a series of people popped up chanting slogans against him.