The Democratic and Republican primaries in Missouri remained too close to call at 2 a.m. ET Wednesday morning, with just two-tenths of one percent separating the top candidates in both races.
While NBC News projected Democrat Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the “apparent winners” in their respective races, the other networks said the race remained too close to definitively call for either candidate.
With 99.9 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton led 49.6 percent to Sanders’ 49.4 percent in the Democratic race, while Trump was leading Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 40.8 to Cruz’s 40.6 percent of the vote.
CNN reported election officials in Missouri had finished counting for the night and would begin tallying provisional and absentee ballots in the morning.
With the exception of Missouri hanging in the balance, Clinton won every Democratic contest Tuesday. On the GOP side, Trump’s perfect record was sullied only by a second-place finish to sitting Gov. John Kasich in Ohio.
Missouri Sec. of State with 100% reporting:
Clinton wins MO by 1,555 vote.
Clinton: 310,363 (49.613%)
Sanders: 308,808 (49.365%)
O.K, I love ya Bernie, but c’mon…you’re just begging for a Larry David romp on that one!
Also, I’ve already posted this on one thread tonight, but it seems even more appropriate here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4That’s even more fitting for Kasich (“I may get more delegates than anyone else”), I think.
I suspect the GOP is too late to save their party from Donald Drumpf…if Rubio and Carson had backed out a week ago and endorsed Cruz, they would have had a chance (but still would have lost the General election). But now, they’re stuck with chinchilla-head thanks to Carson selling out for peanuts and Rubio hanging on to get flogged in Florida.
With Rubio not dropping out prior to the Florida primary, he boosted the total of delegates from former candidates to over 300 who have become officially unbound before the convention and thus free to be recruited by the remaining candidates. Obviously, if Trump falls one or two hundred delegates short of a majority after the end of the primaries, he can legally cut a separate deal with each unbound delegate, by offering a plethora of patronage positions such as ambassadorships, even Cabinet level appointments. This scenario was explained by the vulpine Republican legal expert on MSNBC’s election night panel in response to a question from Rachel Maddow.