Donald Trump Projected To Win Arkansas Primary

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, in Portsmouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won Tuesday in the Arkansas primary, according to projections from the Associated Press and MSNBC.

Arkansas’ primary was just one of the contests in the Southern-dominated Super Tuesday where a number of delegates were up for grabs. Polls closed after 12 hours of voting at 8:30 p.m. ET.

State legislators agreed to move this year’s primary earlier so the state could have a more prominent place in the election cycle, according to the Associated Press. The state’s primary does not require voters to declare a party to cast a vote, and early reports suggested that more Arkansas voters requested Republican ballots than Democrat ballots by a 3-2 margin.

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, who suspended his bid for the presidency last month after a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucuses, did not endorse any of the remaining candidates. But his daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, joined Trump’s campaign last week as a senior adviser.

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  1. Must be all that KKK support he’s been getting.

  2. Rubio might win Minnesota… Clinton might hold onto Mass. Colorado and Minnesota look like they could go to Sanders.

  3. On the Democratic side the W/L scoreboard is mostly what I expected (thought OK, Colorado and Minnesota might all well go to Bernie, not to mention VT). The Rethuglican side is just a little bit wilder… after tonight nobody is going anywhere any soon.

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