US Election 2016 BBC News Special

Welcome back to this BBC News special. We are covering the

primaries on the Super Tuesday and we will go down to Florida, where

Hillary Clinton is speaking. Thank you, Ohio! You know, although we're

waiting for final results, we know we will add to our lead to roughly

300, with over 2 million more votes nationwide! We are moving closer to

securing the Democratic party nomination and winning this election

in November! You know, because of all of you, and our supporters

across the country, our campaign has earned more votes than any other

candidate, Democrat or Republican. And I want to congratulate Bernie

Sanders for the vigorous campaign he is waging! Now, today all of you in

the States where contests were held voted to break down the barriers

that hold us all back. So, everyone of us can share in the promise of

America. You voted. You voted... You voted for our tomorrow to be better

than our yesterday. Tomorrow, where all of us do our part and everyone

has a chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.

Because that's how America can live up to its potential to. Now, we need

you to keep working. -- potential too. Keep volunteering, keep

contributing at hillaryclinton.com. Please, please, join the 950,000

supporters who already have contributed, most less than $100,

because our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of

our support. We can't do this without you, so if you've been

waiting for the right moment now is the time to come and join us! You

know, tonight it's clearer than ever that this may be one of the most

consequential campaigns of our lifetimes. The next president will

walk into the oval office next January, sit down at that desk and

start making decisions that will affect the lives and livelihoods of

everyone in this country, indeed everyone on this planet! Now, I know

that easy decisions don't make it to the President's Cup, only the

hardest choices. -- the president's desk. I saw President Obama's

decision to rescue the auto industry, to fight for the

affordable care act and so many more. And so the next president has

to be ready to face three big tasks. First, can you make positive

differences in people's lives? Second, can you keep us safe? Third,

can you bring our country together again?

Now, making differences in people's lives comes first because Americans

everywhere are hungry for solutions. They want to break down the barriers

holding them back so we can all together. Ask any parent, you will

hear nothing is more important than making sure their kids have a good

school and a good teacher no matter what ZIP code they live in. They

deserve a president who understands that when we invest in our

children's education we're investing in all of our futures and young

people... Young people across America, struggling under the weight

of student debt, find it difficult to imagine the futures they want and

they deserve a president who will help relieve them of that burden and

help future generations go to college without borrowing a dying

for tuition! -- borrowing a dime. And grandparents who worry about

retirement deserve a president who will protect and then expand social

security for those who need it most. Not cut or privatise it.

Families deserve a president who will fight for the things that our

priorities at home but are too often not priorities in Parliament.

Something we have waited for long enough, equal pay for women! And,

above all, hard-working Americans across our country deserve a

president with both the know-how to create good jobs with rising incomes

right here in our country. And I am absolutely convinced that we have

the tools to do that. That's why I've laid out a programme to do what

can be done. More good jobs in infrastructure, more good jobs in

manufacturing! More it good jobs in small businesses! -- more good. More

good jobs in clean renewable energy! Good paying jobs are the

ticket to the middle class and we're going to stand up for the American

middle class again. We're going to stand up for American workers and

make sure no one takes advantage of us. Not China, not Wall Street and

not overpaid corporate executives! Now, look, look, of course every

candidate, every candidate, makes promises like this. But every

candidate lose it to you to be clear and direct about what our plans will

cost and how we're going to make them work. -- owes it to you. That's

the difference between running for president and being president.

And I will tell you... The second big task for a president is keeping

us safe. We live in a complex and dangerous world. Protecting

America's national security can never be an afterthought. Our

commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass

it. Engage our allies, not alienate them. Defeat our adversarial is, not

embolden them. -- adversarial. When we hear a candidate for president

calling to round up immigrants, ban all Muslims from entering the US...

When he embraces torture, that doesn't make him strong, it makes

him wrong! And, yes, the next president has to

bring our country together so we can all sharing the promise of America.

We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls. We're not going

to succeed by dividing this country between us and them. You know, to be

great we can't be small. We can't lose what made America great in the

first place. And this isn't just about Donald Trump, all of us have

to do our part. We can't just talk about economic inequality, we have

to take out all forms of inequality and discrimination. Together we have

to defend all of our rights, civil rights and voting rights. Workers

rights and women's rights, LGBT rights and rights for people with

disabilities. And that starts by standing with President Obama when

he nominates a justice to the Supreme Court. Our next president

will face all these challenges and more. Running for president is hard,

but being president is harder. It is the hardest, most important job in

the world and not one person can succeed at the job without seeking

and finding common ground to solve the problems we face. If we worked

together we can make a real difference in people's lives. If we

reach out to treat each other with respect, kindness and even love

instead of bluster and bigotry, if we lift each other up instead of

tearing each other down, there's nothing can't accomplish together.

So, please join me in this campaign. Every vote counts, every volunteer

counts, every contribution counts. Eight years ago on the night of the

Ohio primary I said I was running for every one who has ever been

counted out but refused to be knocked down. For everyone who has

stumbled but stood right back up. For everyone who works hard and

never gives up. Well, that is still true. Our campaign is for the

steelworker I met in Ohio on Sunday night, who is -- was laid off but

hoping to get back to work. The mother in Miami whose five children

haven't seen their father since he was deported. She dreams of the day

when deportations and -- deportation and is and families are reunited.

And it is for the mothers I stood with in Chicago yesterday, who have

lost children to gun violence. They're turning their sorrow into a

strategy and are creating a movement. Let stand with people who

have courage and resilience. -- let's stand. Stand with those who

believe America's best days are ahead of us. I've never had more

faith in our future and if we work together, if we go forward in this

campaign, if we win in November I know our future will be brighter

tomorrow than yesterday! Thank you all so very much!

Hillary Clinton speaking in Florida, talking about moving close

to securing the Democratic nomination, saying if we want to be

greatly can't be small, addressing Donald Trump. Talking as well about

gun violence, about immigration, her economic policies and repeating the

line that running for president is easier than actually being

president, criticism also of Donald Trump.

I'm joined now by Democratic Strategist Julian Epstein.

I'm joined now by Republican Strategist Phil Musser.

Thank you for joining me. Julian, you were listening to the speech?

Absolutely. This is a huge night for her. She is on a path to nomination.

It is almost impossible for Bernie Sanders to trip it up. She won North

Carolina. Bernie Sanders would probably need 60 plus % of the vote

after the night in order to win the nomination. It is unlikely for that

to happen, especially given Pennsylvania, New York, California

are just about there. An excellent night for Hillary Clinton. A very

mixed night for the Republican Party. You are Republican

strategist. We seem to have some clarity developing? No such luck for

us. This process is probably going to go to June. For those watching

and trying to understand the invocations, John Kasich on in Ohio.

-- implications. Whether he can be the nominee or not is unclear. What

this guarantees is that this race won't be over until the earliest

June seven and probably not before them. In a lot of cases we will

watch to see what happens in Missouri later, an important state

for Ted Cruz. It will be a state where delegates are proportioned by

winner takes all. We will see if Ted Cruz can get a win. The big news is

obviously Marco Rubio dropping out. Still there, they are competing for

a party that is 40% lock solid four Donald Trump. Go into the Clinton

campaign headquarters now. Are we going to start seeing Hillary

Clinton pivot towards the general election?

Absolutely. You can tell from the speech she gave a few minutes ago

that she's already engaging in that. Not just taking shots at Donald

Trump by saying things like the next@has to not only keep the

country safe but make sure they don't embarrass the country on the

international stage, but outlining what the next president needs to do

and she's hoping that's going to be her. She said the tasks of the next

president are threefold - keeping the country safe, improving the

economy and bringing the country back together. There's a lot of

concern about the and what that will do to the mood in

the country in the lead-up to November. However, she did not

declare that she was done with the race. She congratulated Mr Sanders

for what she described as a vigorous campaign on his part. I spoke to

his... I spoke to her aides as well. They said they're not ready to

declare this over. They will continue. But this is a huge night

and to the point where it's going to become mathematically impossible for

Mr Sanders to keep going in this race. OK. Thank you.

Let's go to the big story of the night, which is Marco Rubio dropping

out of the race. Nick Bryant is there at Rubio's headquarters. It

looks pretty quiet and downcast at the Rubio headquarters. An

extraordinary night. Who would have guessed a year ago - Jeb Bush out of

the race, Scott Walker out of the race and Marco Rubio now out of the

nomination process. Katty, it's a desolatory scene. They told us

there's 30 more and then they're going to throw us out. They're

collapsing the staining. It was a tiny venue. We're outside an arena.

They would have been hoping to be in front of thousands of people inside

the arena celebrating a victory in the home state of Florida. Instead

we're in the lobby of the arena. It's a tiny venue. There are very

few people here and it's an incredibly sad scene if you are a

Rubio supporter. He basically composed his political epitaph

tonight on the stage behind me. He said he was putting forward a

hopeful and positive message in a year of anger and resentment. He

said he was coming up with principles and ideas that, in a

race, that wasn't receptive to them. That has been a problem all along

and also he's an establishment favourite in a year of

anti-establishment politicians like Donald Trump and Trump basically

mowed him down in Florida. He never recovered from tussling in the mud

with Donald Trump about the size of his manhood and all this puerile and

infantile... Nick, I'm going to interrupt you because we're going to

Ohio. Governor John Kasich is taking to the stage to address his

supporters. USA! USA! USA! USA! You'd better believe... You'd better

believe it's about America, about pulling us together, not pulling us

apart. It is about USA! Exactly! CHEERING

Well, first of all, I want to, um... Kasich! Kasich! Kasich! Kasich!

Kasich! Hey! Don't... Listen. Listen, everybody. Let me... Hey!

Hey listen. Now you know when you went to

college in the 1970s, you appreciate a good peaceful protest every once

in a while, huh? Yeah, you do. APPLAUSE

First of all, you know, when you're in the arena and you are struggling

and you leave your family to go out on the campaign trail and deliver a

message to America, because you believe that you, you believe that

you are the best-qualified person to be President of the United States

and you put it all on the line and your family puts it all on the line,

and I want this crowd here tonight to give a great, a great response to

a very, very great, talented and fine United States senator, Mark-io

Rubio for the effort that he has done. -- Marco Rubio, for the effort

that he has done. APPLAUSE

Tonight, tonight we arrived in Cleveland and we went to a

restaurant. We thought we could kind of sneak in and grab a quick meal.

And when we walked through the restaurant, people started to cheer.

My reaction was, "Please don't do that, because you're going to make

me cry." But to have, to have people believe in you and to believe that

you can bring people together and strengthen our country, I have to

thank the people of the great state of Ohio. I love you is all I can

tell you. I love you. Kasich! Kasich! Kasich! You know, when I

became Governor of Ohio, I went to New York and I met with some of the

rating agencies. Things were bad. We'd lost 350,000 jobs. We were $8

billion in the hole and our credit was hanging in the balance and they

told me, "We're about to cut up your credit card and give you a new one

where you can't buy as much." I said, "You don't understand Ohio.

You don't understand Ohioans." So I can't wait to go back again. We're

now up 400,000-plus jobs. We're running at $2 billion surplus. Our

pensions are secure. We've cut taxes by more than any governor in this

country and we are leaving no-one behind. Not the mentally ill, the

drug-addicted, the working poor. CHEERING

And I don't know whether you can actually serve a meal of words but I

would like to go back to those credit rating agencies where they

can learn to eat their words about doubting Ohio, huh? And you know,

ladies and gentlemen, um... You know, look, my whole life has been

about trying to create a climate of opportunity for people. You know, as

my father carried that mail on his back and his father was a coal miner

and, you know, I just was told by my cousin - I didn't realise this -

that my mother, one of four, was the only one to graduate from high

school. The other three barely made it out of the eighth grade because

they were poor. And, you know, as I've travelled the country and I

look into your eyes, you want to believe, you want to believe again

that we can have job security. You want to believe again that wages can

rise. You want to believe that your children are going to have

ultimately a better America than what we got from our mothers and

fathers. That's the great American legacy, that our kids will be better

than we are. And I want people in Ohio to know, as I think you do, I

want people around the country to know that I understand these tough

issues. I grew up in these situations in that little

blue-collar town and in my mind's eye is the need to forget the

politics, forget the pollsters, forget all the focus groups,

because, you see, I represent you and it is my job to look at these

situations and these problems and to listen to you and it's my job to go

and fix them and if that means, at times, that I have to take some heat

well that's just the price of leadership in America, OK? Now, I

want you to know the campaign goes on. And I also want you to know that

it's been my intention to make you proud. It's been my intention to

have young people all across this country watch somebody enter into

politics, even though I laboured in obscurity for so long, people

counting me out, people in Ohio saying, "Why don't they ever call on

him?" OK? We get all that. But we put one foot in front of the other

and I want to remind you again tonight that I will not take the low

road to the highest office in the land.

CHEERING Thank you. You know, the, the

challenges that we have... We can go to Washington in the first 100 days,

fix these problems with a shock-and-awe agenda that can pass.

I think we can rally the people in Washington because I'm going to

remind them that before we're Republicans and Democrats, we're

Americans and we have an obligation to our children. But I really,

really, really believe this and want you to know this and maybe in many

respects this is why I've been given a chance to stand here tonight and

have earned a victory. You know the Lord's made everybody here special.

I've been telling people this all across the country. Nobody, Sir, has

ever been made like you, before, and nobody will ever be like you again.

And, young lady, you're here at a moment in time, and your job is to

find that purpose that you have. Your job is to live life a little

bit bigger than yourself. Your job is to be a centre of healing and

justice and hope in whatever way we can. If we're a school teacher, we

give up money to change lives. If we're a nurse, we work 15 extra

minutes when we're dead on our feet because we want to assure that

family that things are going to be OK. And if we...

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING And if we are a neighbour, that

means that widow, who was married for 50 years, who no-one calls any

more, you want to change the world? You take her to dinner on Saturday

night. She'll wear that dress she hadn't worn in six months. I trust

you to do it. You see, what I learned as a boy, what I learned

from my mother and father, is that the Spirit of America rests in us.

It doesn't rest in a big-time politician, the bigwigs... Look, you

hire us to go do the job, plain and simple, to create an environment of

economic growth and opportunity, but that's not where our spirit is. Our

spirit is in us, believing that, through our efforts, in whichever

part of the world that we live, that we can change the world, that we can

carve out a better future, that we can realise that those special gifts

that were given to each and every one of us in here are something that

we can use to heal the world and, you know, we're all part of a giant

mosaic, a snapshot in time, all of us here, and it is our job as

Americans, our job as people who want to be decent and live good

lives, is to dig down and understand that purpose and never underestimate

our ability to change the world in which we live!

Well, guess what? Tomorrow, I'm going to Philadelphia...

CHEERING And them I'm going, I don't know,

all over the country, OK? And many of you have travelled around this

country trying to help me. You know what? Look... This is all I've got,

OK? This is all I've got and all I can say is thank you from the bottom

of my heart but I want you to know something. We're going to go. We are

going to go all the way to Cleveland and secure the Republican

nomination. CHEERING

I also want to thank... You know, my father was a Democrat all his life.

He was. We had a lot of Democrats who said they didn't like the

socialist agenda or the left-wing agenda, or big government. I want to

thank them for coming over to this election and putting their

confidence in me. Because I think we all know that Conservative

principles can work. Common sense can work. The shifting power from

that big place in Washington and moving it to where we live to

empower us, that's the direction for our country. That's the direction

for our country! And, finally, finally... I want you coming out on

the road. I want you to continue to do what we've been doing all over

this country. I'm getting ready to rent a wagon and we are going to

have the wind blow us to the Rocky Mountains and over the mountains to

California. Here's what I want you to know... We've got one more trip

around Ohio this coming fall, where we will beat Hillary Clinton and I

will become the president of the United States! Thank you all very

much and God bless you! John Kasich, the two-time governor of

Ohio who has won the Republican primary in his bid for the

nomination of the Republican Party for the White House. John Kasich

saying, I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land,

promising that his campaign will continue. His intention is to make

the people of Ohio proud and he says if he goes to Washington he will

rally the people. John Kasich, who in this year of incredibly bitter,

ugly, vulgar campaigning, has assiduously kept a tone that has

been civil and optimistic. It paid off to him tonight in a higher,

which it has one. It doesn't necessarily mean that we all have to

start talking about John Kasich as the Republican Party nominee but it

does mean he can stay in the race. The biggest short-term impact is

that John Kasich said he had laboured in a security for the first

part of this race. I can tell you that John Kasich tomorrow will not

be labouring in obscurity. I think it's a big bump, especially with the

money class that was behind Marco Rubio. People are clearly looking

for an alternative to Donald Trump. John Kasich has approval ratings

from the 60s, a very successful track record of reform.

Interestingly, he is moving back to a policy description that he

patterned in 1994, talking about a 100 day agenda. -- patented. In 1984

they ran and enacted. John Kasich will try to tap that sentiment of a

first 100 day agenda vision for the country, to try to bring together

more of the coalition within what will now be a 3-person race.

Something he has spoken about repeatedly, what he would do in the

first 100 days if he was president. When you look at the Republican race

now, Julian, from a Democrat's point of view, does it look more confusing

than it did 24 hours ago? I see a lot of good news and bad news for

Republicans. The bad news is in contrast to the Democrats, because

no matter what happens there will be a house divided. If Trump doesn't

get the nomination he will have 34% Republican voters who will feel at

Reeves and could possibly walk. They will feel very angry. -- feel

aggrieved. If he gets the nomination up to 40% of the nominations would

look to a third party candidate or vote for the Democrats. The

Republicans will be divided. If you look at Bernie Sanders' voters, it

seems his supporters will go for Hillary Clinton. The good news is

now we are getting down to a field of three. Trump still needs 54% of

the delegates to get to a majority. He has never been above 50%. He has

to get the 54%. That gets increasingly hard for him to do that

when you are in a field of three. If John Kasich can't win in Ohio it is

really three. So there's a pathway for Ted Cruise, more so than John

Kasich. A pathway of Ted Cruz to overtake Trump. He would have to get

somewhere in the order of 60% of delegates. But it is plausible, not

probable. Stay with me for a second. We will go to the John Kasich

headquarters. Gary O'Donoghue is there. You've been speaking to

people from Ohio. A good night for a very popular Ohio governor. Yes, he

is enormously popular. If you look at the approval ratings, they are in

the 60s. If you ask Republicans they are around the 80 mark. He should

have won here and he has one and it looks like he will win here by a

significant margin. So his first win of the campaign... There is still a

long way to go until any sort of nomination, despite him insisting

that he will take it all the way to Cleveland. Let me bring in a guest.

I've brought in the former senator from new Hampton, who has brought

John Kasich into the campaign. How are they feeling tonight? It's a big

win, a winner takes all stake. Every delegate matters, especially when it

is likely that we will be getting a majority. The convention is the only

option for a case -- Kasich nomination? That's the only option

for any nomination, you have to get the majority of the delegates. Right

now it doesn't look like anyone will have a clear majority and the

delegates are going to be asking one question, who should lead the

Republican Party in November? Who is best able to beat Hillary Clinton?

The governor was very warm about Senator Marco Rubio in his victory

speech. Are you expecting an endorsement from him? Are you

expecting supporters to come to you now? I think we will receive a lot

of support from Mark -- Marco Rubio's supporters. Ideal logically

there are similarities. And there is an attempt by both candidates to

block the Republican Party. There is no question, Marco Rubio is a

younger senator, spoke to many people who previously on the part of

the Republican Party. Thanks for a much. The governor will be heading

off to Pennsylvania tomorrow. He says he will take it right round the

country for the autumn election. Thanks very much. A very good night

for John Kasich. The question of course, what happens next? It looks

like the convention could be their only chance of seeing the Kasich

nomination. That would be what the numbers suggest. Let's hear from

Bernie Sanders, who has been speaking as the Democratic opponent

to Hillary Clinton. Phoenix, are you ready for a political revolution?

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Are you tired of a handful of

billionaires running our economy? CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Well, if you

are you've come to the right place! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. You know,

what excites me so much as I go around the country is to see the

incredible energy of hundreds of thousands of people who love this

country but no we can do so much better. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. We

started this campaign at 3% in the national polls we have come along

way in ten months CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

And the reason we have done as well as we have, the reason that we have

defied all expectations is that we are doing something very radical in

American politics. We are telling the truth! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Bernie Sanders, speaking in Phoenix, Arizona. The relevance of

the location is that the Democratic primary is next Tuesday in Arizona

and Bernie Sanders clearly not dropping out of this race. Julian

Ebstein, Democratic strategist, he would drop out of the race and to

some extent until he does Hillary Clinton have to stay focused on the

primary campaign. She can't afford to dismiss his supporters by making

it look as if she assumes she is the nominee? That's very well said and

that's exactly right. In the past two or three minutes, my texts are

blowing up from Bernie Sanders supporters saying that in the next

seven contests, all Western contests, Arizona, Utah, Washington,

Alaska, Hawaii, there are all Pol -- they are all more plausible for

Bernie Sanders. He is likely to stay in the race. What about the fact

that we can't dismiss his voters? That means she has to consolidate

the Democratic vote. I mean, it is an unfortunate in that both parties

have been moving towards the extremes. The Democrats have been

moving for the right. That means she has to placate a lot of what Bernie

Sanders' positions have been, whether it is regulating industry,

healthcare, trade, a whole host of issues. She really wants to be

moving back to the political centre. So there is that issue for her. She

does have to keep in mind the two problems she has right now are

intensity, her voters aren't as intense as Bernie, and trust. Trust

isn't the e-mails but it is more about shifting positions on things

like trade, same-sex marriage over the years, keystone pipeline, those

kinds of issues. The changing of positions is a pink people some

questions. So she has to make sure that those robins don't get worse.

That said, Bernie Sanders has to win 57% of the delegates and there just

doesn't... That does not seem to be mathematically possible. The longer

the Democratic race continues without he wriggled -- Hillary

Clinton being able to say, IMO nominee and this is what I will make

of Donald Trump and here is my vice presidential pick, how much easier

does it make for Republicans to take on once the general election to get

going? -- Iama nominee. This is good news. I am happy to have Bernie

Sanders in the race as long as possible. He has the ability to

fundamentally reply deliberate plan each his coffers with the touch of a

quicker, meaning he has a massive online fundraising database. --

click. It is possible he will have more cash on hand than secretary

Clinton at the end. This campaign isn't going away, so she can't take

on Donald Trump just as you would like to. Four years ago President

Obama made the decision to defy Mitt Romney early on in June, before we

have the financial resources to fight back. I don't think that will

be the case. I think the Bernie Sanders campaign will occupy Hillary

Clinton for quite sometime. And, meanwhile, our party will continue

to drift forward... As if you're party didn't have problems enough!

We have plenty of problems on both sides. We have a lot of anger on the

left and right and we are trying to sort it out. We have to go to trump

headquarters. Jon Sopel is there. ABC News is calling Illinois for

Donald Trump, so another win for him. But the loss in Ohio stops him

from being able to say tonight, I am the Republican Party's nominee. He

hasn't got the numbers tonight. And the other thing I was reflecting on

is that if you think of since last June Donald Trump has totally

dominated the sort of media narrative, the story. He's been at

the centre of every single news cycle. I just wonder whether

tonight, rather than talking about the likely wins that Donald Trump

will not up, we will be talking about the loss and focusing on that

and saying how much it, Kate Donald Trump's path towards the Republican

nomination. -- how much it affects. We heard John Kasich saying he would

be right there until Cleveland. Ted Cruz isn't going anywhere. I wonder

whether the stuff that's been a fantasy of political geeks, the

contested convention, is actually going to become reality. With this

-- us all looking at textbooks to figure out what it means and what

rules will apply. In the meantime, huge excitement in this ballroom

where Donald Trump is due to speak in a few minutes. Remember, two

weeks ago, I spoke to you and said that where we were was like a mini

version. This ballroom that Donald Trump is due to speak in is like

Versailles times two. You heard John Kasich, he had kind words for Marco

Rubio, who has dropped out. That's the other big story. Any chance we

will hear Donald Trump? With similarly kind words?

Little sweaty mako? It is hard when you have said all of these

extraordinary things to do is walk back from them and say we were great

howls all the time -- pals. He was standing shoulder to shoulder with

Ben Carson, and he came in with a tongue lashing various times from

Donald Trump. It is possible. It has to be in Donald Trump's interest to

promote himself as the unity candidate any person that the

Republican Party has to rally around. That will play well in

certain circles. Whether the Republican group can believe it has

to be believed. As soon as Donald Trump takes to the stage in the

Palace of Versailles, will come to you. Let's go to Texas for the Ted

Cruz campaign. What are they making of the Ted Cruz campaign? Marco

Rubio dropping out, John Kasich winning in Ohio, not great news that

M. And the potential fallout from that? -- not great news there. The

night is young for people at this Ted Cruz event because their men has

not turned up yet. He has not won any delegates, but because they are

watching some of the races yet to declare, for example North Carolina,

which in the count so far as Donald Trump ahead, but in some counties

from what we're seeing so far, Ted Cruz is ahead. He could pick up some

delegates there tonight. Also Missouri, they have only counted 16%

so far, but we are only seeing a two point difference between Ted Cruz

and Donald Trump. These are places they are watching very closely

because his strategy has always been to pick up delegates wherever he

can. In answer to your other point, the reaction to Rubio dropping out,

people were disappointed, and not just disappointed because he is

dropping out but because he stayed in the race for so long. Some people

here I spoke to say all he did was actually pull the anyone Donald

Trump vote apart and should've gotten out way before -- but Donald

Trump. They asked why didn't he endorse Ted Cruz, why did he does

make a concession speech, with people hoping he should have come

out and back to Ted Cruz. We have had a statement from Ted Cruz on

Marco Rubio dropping out, and he said Marco Rubio was a friend and

colleague who run an optimistic campaign and make this primary might

struggle. I'm not sure Ted Cruz has many friends amongst his colleagues

in the Senate. That is the part of his problem. He is the guy up

against a Trump and has had the most wins, but it has hurt him, the fact

that the establishment of the Republican Party has found it so

difficult to rally around a person who I don't think I have ever met

anyone in Washington who is as disliked as Ted Cruz is. Let's just

remember, and this is how curious this race has become, Ted Cruz has

always been an antiestablishment politician. He was part of the tea

party movement before, and we are now faced with a situation where he

could be seen as the likely establishment candidate. He doesn't

have as many friends in the party as Marco Rubio, perhaps, but on the

ground, and I have travelled to nearly a dozen states since the

primary season kicked off, he does have a very dedicated and loyal

support base, far more than I ever saw with Marco Rubio. People are

passionate about Ted Cruz. What is interesting is the kind of people he

attracts, conservative evangelical Christians, they are riposte by

Donald Trump. -- riposte. Spoke to one woman who is a huge Ted Cruz

supporter and she said she would find it difficult to vote Republican

vote at all if Donald Trump and tapping the eventual nominee. While

Tom Cruise does not have many political friends, he certainly has

more on the ground support their Marco Rubio who had plenty of people

in the establishment behind him -- Ted Cruz will stop great point.

Perhaps not the year to have friends in the Republican establishment. I

guess not. It didn't do Marco Rubio any favours. I think he ran a

credible race, and is a very talented politician, but Ted Cruz,

interestingly... It is not the year in which the chosen candidate

receives many favours. We are down to three now, and certainly the

anti- Washington sentiment Ted Cruz is paying two is important. I'd in a

dose of getting a Supreme Court nominee, with rumours that the

president may be moving forward on that front, Ted Cruz is a

constitutional conservative and clapped for different justices. This

could be another angle you can see him coming out trying to capture

some of that support base -- clerked. He is not going anywhere.

He has a text to donate button up on the stage, so he clearly needs to

raise money to continue to compete. He will be on the way to Cleveland.

We should talk about the Supreme Court nomination. We are getting

reports that the President is planning to announce his nominee on

Wednesday. How much will that impact the race on both sides? As if we

didn't have enough already? Part of the thinking is that one of the

candidates may even get support from Republicans. The question is whether

that will politically stimulate a strong showing at the next election,

so I think the politics of that will be interesting. It focuses minds

about the Republican and Democratic side about what is at stake in this

campaign. It motivates both bases. I think, and I'm not alone in this,

the Ted Cruz will be the nominee. And the reason is because of two

numbers. 65% and 54%. 65% of voters in the general election have a

negative view of Donald Trump, which is two out of three American voters.

That is in three different national polls, and that is consistent.

Republicans understand that. No national candidate has ever come

back from negatives of 65% ever. That is the first. 54%, Donald Trump

still needs that to get the nomination. I think we will have a

broken convention, and my prediction is that Donald Trump goes in with a

plurality not a majority of delegates. And I think people on the

second ballot will say this is not possible. The problem is then you

have a divided Republican Party coming out of the convention, and I

don't know if you can put Humpty Dumpty back together. The satiated

press has just called North Carolina for Donald Trump, so that is another

win for him tonight -- associated press. Ohio, Florida, North

Carolina, but we don't have Missouri yet. He lost Ohio, but let's go to

the yearly campaign headquarters. I imagine the party quieting down now

-- Hillary Clinton campaign headquarters. Listening to Bernie

Sanders earlier, he is not going anywhere. He is getting ready for

that Arizona primary and not giving up. Absolutely. The parties he has

wrapped up. It was very jubilant. Hillary Clinton very quickly

pivoting to a general election campaign speech, pushing back

against Donald Trump's rhetoric. But she did not declare an outright

victory and say I and the nominee. It is now impossible for Bernie

Sanders to become the Democratic nominee. She just said we are edging

closer to the finish line. That is because Mr Sanders himself has said

he is not going anywhere and wants to stay in the race. She needs to

make sure she doesn't alienate his supporters as this contest goes on.

But she had a huge note this evening. I will tell you one

indication she fills confident that it is almost over is that she will

spend the next week fundraising and taking some downtime. No events

tomorrow or over the weekend. Then she will travel out West. The other

thing she has demonstrated this evening with their big win in

Florida is her grip on the Latinos vote, which will be crucial in

November in the general election. Then the key state of Ohio, this was

the state where Bernie Sanders had to win to show he was picking up on

that momentum he had with Michigan last week with the surprise win. He

did not win there, he lost quite big. It is difficult now for Bernie

Sanders to find this path towards the nomination that his aides still

insisted has, et cetera and the enthusiasm he continues to get from

young supporters will be beneficial for the Democratic party if Hillary

Clinton is the nominee. She will need those young supporters to turn

out in force in November. A well earned rest for her. We are still

waiting for Donald Trump, who will take the stage soon. You can see up

on the stage he has somebody starting to introduce him. John

called it the Palace of Versailles. It does look incredibly glitzy. A

nice place to have a campaign headquarters. I want to pick up on

what Tim was saying about Bernie Sanders staying in the race. You

said your Twitter feed was exploding in getting messages from Bernie

Sanders supporters saying this is looking more favourable. They don't

really think you can take the nomination from Hillary Clinton at

this point to there? I don't think there is a chance. What are they

hoping for? -- do there? I think there is a possibility he can win in

places where there is less diversity. Hillary Clinton did well

with Hispanic registered in Fargo. -- Hispanic voters. I think they

continue to keep the intensity and go on to the convention with a large

number of delegates. This is all about bargaining. I will stop you

right there. Donald Trump is taking to the stage. Then she very much,

everybody. This was an amazing evening. -- thank you. They just

announced North Carolina. I don't know if they have even announced

Illinois yet, but we are leading by a lot, so I think they will announce

it. Florida was so amazing. I want to thank our friends. They have been

so incredible. We picked up nine delegates this morning. I heard

early in the morning nine delegates, that is a lot. I just wanted to

thank the governor, a great guy. A very nice start of the day, that I

can tell you. Many things have been happening over the last short period

of time. CNN were very nice and came up with the poll saying 49%. We just

had one from the Economist which came at 53%, and it is interesting

because I was watching the news a little while ago and is one of the

commentators, who I am not particularly fond of, but those

minor details, said but Donald Trump doesn't get over 50%. I met 43, 45,

and according to the Economist now 53, and I have to explain to these

people they don't understand basic physics, basic mathematics, basic

whenever you want to call it. When I don't get over 50, we are for

people, right? Do you understand that? -- four people. I had 53%, and

it is with four people. That is an amazing achievement when you can get

over 50%. Someday they will understand. Sunday when we'd take it

all, they will understand, but it is really ridiculous -- Sunday when we

take it all. I want to thank my family. They have been working so

hard. They have been amazing. Ivanka is about ready to have a baby. We

have been thinking about that now for a little while, she has been so

helpful and Jared has been amazing. It has been just great.

I want to thank Baron and I never see my Baron! It is a little tough

when you are going away... APPLAUSE. He goes, when are you coming home,

Daddy?! I say, into and a half weeks. Yesterday, I went to a --

Ohio and we had an incredible crowd. We had so many great people. Some

day in the not too distant future, if I win, otherwise it is not going

to happen, but Apple and all of these great companies will be making

their product in the United States, not in China, Vietnam... APPLAUSE.

And we are not going to be losing our companies, which are leaving our

country rapidly, whether it is a condition in, whether it is Ford, I

was in Cleveland and Eaton Coirp are leaving -- Eaton Corp. I am

disgusted. It is gross incompetence at the highest level. We should not

allow it to happen. Pfizer, great pharmaceutical company, they are

going to Ireland. You have corporate inversions, people can't get their

money back into the country because the politicians can't get along,

they can't make a deal. Everybody agrees Democrat and Republican.

Everybody agrees the money should come back. There is too at a half

trillion dollars out of this country that everyone agrees should be here

-- two and a half trillion dollars. For two years we've not been able to

make a deal. We could make a deal. There is an example of something

that you could do it. If I sat down with a view of the senators and a

few congressmen, you could make a deal on that in ten minutes if you

knew what you are doing because everybody wants to do it. Companies

are leaving the country to get their money, not only because taxes are

too high, which we are going to lower, by the way, but countries are

leaving our country in order to going get money that is their money,

because there is no way of bringing it in. So we've got a long way to go

but I think at some point it is going to be done. This has been very

exciting, this whole process. We started, I was one of 17 people,

senators, governors, I've had such great support. Doctor Ben Carson the

other date endorsed us. Great guy -- day. APPLAUSE. Wonderful man. Chris

Christie endorsed us. That was so incredible. And today it came Pam

Bondy. She endorsed us. She is a truly wonderful woman. The Joshi has

done in Florida is incredible. -- and the support. Paul Ryan called me

the other day. Tremendous call. I spoke with Mitch McCall. We had a

great conversation. The fact is, we have to bring our party together. We

have to bring it together. APPLAUSE. We have something happening that

actually makes the Republican Party probably the biggest political story

anywhere in the world. Everybody is writing about it. All over the world

they are talking about it. Millions of people are coming to vote. This

was an example of it today. I am looking at the polling booths. I am

looking at the polling groups around the country. The lines are four or

five or six blocks long. One woman has been working on the polls for 40

years and she said, we would have two or three people here and now

look at the line. The line was really long, it was five deep and

long. We have a great opportunity. The people that are voting are

Democrats coming in, independence coming in, and very importantly

people that never voted before -- Independents. It is an incredible

thing. APPLAUSE. I want to pay my respects to plod payment. Sarah was

here. She was incredible -- Tod Palin. Everybody loves her. He was

in a very bad accident. He is tough. He will be fine. I want to pay my

respects. Our thing when we started. Please, sitdown everybody.

We give. You understand. I am looking at all these people.

APPLAUSE. Cory. Good job, Cory. And our whole squad. When this began,

Milania and I, we said, we've got to do it and she has been so supportive

and it has been amazing. We have to do it. We came down the escalator

and it was about trade and borders and what happened is quite quickly

after that. I shot right to the top of the polls. I have been leading

since the beginning almost. Most people said I would

since the beginning almost. Most people said I never run. That I am

having a good time. I mean, I am having a very nice time. But you

know what? I am working very hard. Leave me, there is great anger.

APPLAUSE. . -- believe me. One person asked me if there is anger

and I said, no, of course, we love the way it is working. We love the

deal you did with Iran giving them $150 billion. We love the trade

deals, they are wonderful, losing $500 billion a year with China. We

lose $58 billion a year in terms of imbalance. It is a total in balance.

We don't make good deals any more. We don't win wars any more. They

asked if there is anger from the people? There is anger. They are not

angry people but they want to see the country properly run. They want

to see borders and good healthcare. They want to see things properly

taken care of. They want our military rebuilt. Our military is in

a very bad state. They want it rebuilt. Very, very importantly,

they want a second amendment protected and protected strongly and

that's going to happen! APPLAUSE. And you know what they want so

badly? They want our veterans treated better. They are treated so

badly! So, we started, and something happened called Paris. Paris

happened. And Paris was a disaster. There have been many disasters but

it was Paris. And then we had a case in Los Angeles where it was in

California where 14 young people were killed. And it just goes on and

on and on. And what happened with me is this whole run brought a whole

new meaning. Not just borders and trade deals. We will bring the best

trade deals using. We have such good trade deals from the smartest people

in business. These people are going to be negotiating our deals. We have

the best business people in the world. We are going to have such

great deal. We will do so well with trade. We will do so well on the

border. But it took on a whole new meaning. The many was very simple.

We need protection in the country and that's going to happen. All of a

sudden the poll numbers shot up. I am very proud to be part of this. I

think we are going to go and we are going to do a lot of trips over the

next month and I think we are going to have a great victory. More

importantly than anything else we are going to start winning again.

This country is going to start winning again. We don't win any

more. APPLAUSE. We don't win with our military. We can't beat ISIS. We

are going to knock the hell out of them. We don't win with trade with

China, everybody, Japan, Mexico, India. We don't win in trade. We are

going to win in trade, we are going to make a country rich and great

again and we need to reach in order to make the great. I am sorry to

tell you. -- the rich. APPLAUSE. So, I am going forward. We had a

fantastic evening. I would never have thought this could have

happened. We could level one result, possibly which could be successful

or so. To win the stately won and to win with those margins. This is my

second state, Florida. To win with that kind of number is so great.

APPLAUSE. And I have to say it, I have to say it, number one, I want

to congratulate Marco Rubio on having run a really tight campaign.

He is staffed and smart and he has a great future. -- he is tough and

smart. I have to say, no one has ever in the history of politics

received the kind of negative advertising that I have. Record,

record, record. Mostly false, I wouldn't say 100%, but about 90%.

Mostly false, vicious, horrible. They say it was 18 million the first

week, meaning last week, and 25 million. It ended up to over 40

million dollars. You explain it to me because I can't. My numbers went

up. I don't understand it. Nobody understands it. My numbers went up.

It has been an interesting experience. Last week Adam Scott won

at Trump National. Adam, who is a great guy. I am watching and we have

TV screens all over and we are down at this gorgeous green and

everything is working beautifully and then a commercial comes on. The

worst commercial. I am in this wonderful room with Cadillac and

wonderful executives and I am saying, look over there, you don't

want to watch this, isn't the grass beautiful? Look, don't watch. And

they came in waves, one after another after another. And it was

brutal. And then Adam Scott comes, this handsome kid from Australia,

one of the greatest golfers in the world, makes an unbelievable shot to

win. And we are giving the award and just before we break for a

commercial, we will be right back with the great champion from

Australia, Adam Scott. And here is the commercial and I said, no! And

it was. Two of them! What a day that was. What a disaster!

I want to congratulate everybody. This is a really interesting

process. It is an amazing process. It is very tough. By the end if you

can get to the end, you can handle a lot of things, including pressure.

There is nothing like it. Lies and deceit, viciousness Thomas Bosc

asked in reporters, horrible people. -- vicious, horrible reporters.

There are some disgusting people. Some are nice. I just want to say,

we will go forward and we will win. More importantly, we will win for

the country. We will win and we are not stopping. We will have great

victories for our country. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.

Donald Trump speaking in his resort down in south Florida. We are going

to win, win, win and we will do it for the country. He won in Florida,

Illinois, North Carolina. We are waiting for the result in Missouri.

He did not win in Ohio. He said they have to bring the party together. He

talked about trade and how America was being beaten by China, Japan,

Vietnam and what a disaster the Iran deal has been for the US. And then

at one point he briefly congratulated Marco Rubio and this

was an extraordinary moment when he said that Marco Rubio was tough,

smart and he said he has a great future. Not quite the sweaty little

Marco Rubio he has been talking about for the last couple of weeks.

I have Phil Mercer with me in the studio, he is a Republican

strategist. When you hear Donald Trump, is he the man that can pivot

from the incendiary campaign it has been to winning over voters in the

centre of American politics? I think the jury is out. He is pivoting back

to a general election message. In some ways Clinton was trying to do

similar things on the left. Obviously, Mr Trump wants to talk

about bringing the party together. He does it in a very clear way. His

themes are not left to the imagination. It is simple, black and

white, win or not win, make American great. -- make America great. It has

cut through the clutter. Even if the speech you listened to was all over

the place, relative to the topics at hand. He has a lot of work to do.

There is a lot of meeting to be done to unify this party. The mathematics

of tonight are in form. He will end with over $6 million. When you look

at the Clinton campaign and we were talking about this when Donald Trump

was speaking, it is extraordinary how he has stayed on message. We are

either winners or losers. It is terrific or terrible. It is black or

white. There are has been a real appeal to the simplicity of the

Trott message. He tapped into the anger a lot of people feel --

Trump. The country might be the demographics being passed by, he

legitimises the anger. You can pivot to the centre if things are true, if

people don't know you yet, if you leave yourself room with the

political position. Or if you are unfavourable -- your unfavourables

aren't high. His political positions have taken... They have been very

extreme. Their negativity, you can't pivot to the centre. Look at trade,

look at tax, for example. On certain economic issues he is quite

centrist. You could say he was a Democrat.

The Labour unions and Democrats have been anti- free trade, popular

movements, and that could possibly play well in Michigan and the

rustbelt. Very few places that Donald Trump beat Clinton. Very few

places he is doing better than Clinton. I do not think it is

possible, with the kind of negative rating he has... You have to also

remember that Hillary Clinton goes into the election with her set of

negatives. We have a potential that two major party candidates, leaving

aside what could happen if we have a contested chaos in Cleveland... If

Donald Trump won Ohio and Florida, we could have said he is on his way

to being the nominee. After tonight, not winning Ohio, what are the

chances of the convention? High you then a week or two ago? Yes, I think

so. Had Donald Trump defeated both John Kasich and Marco Rubio, but in

a two person raise, the crews versus Donald Trump changes. It could have

led to Donald Trump coming in just shy for the nomination. With a 3-way

race, and a more moderate series of states, if John Kasich can win in a

few places and cruise can continue to grow, -- Cruz, he could... I

think it is more likely than not. It would be the most interesting news

event in politics. The number to watch is 45. If Donald Trump has

eight plurality of over 45%. The fee is 42 -43% and Cruz is the upper 30%

then anything goes. I think that is where we are headed. I tended to

agree. In a scenario where you come in with 1200 but no conclusion, what

will be interesting to watch will be the manoeuvrings are a week prior to

the convention. Back knife warfare that you have ever seen in our

party. What do we have to do from now until early June to figure out

whether we are going to have 28 contested convention? We have had a

compact and accelerated period of time... A few... Exactly. We work

our way through the upper midwest... Running for president of

the United States is the most gruelling operation by far, it is

brutal. They all need a break. For the candidates and the campaign

staff. What Donald Carr has in his favour, -- Donald Trump. He has air

planes... And he has had it all alone. He does not have to raise

money. He is raising effect clip of money online, he has air planes, he

can travel back to Florida and New York. That is a huge advantage.

Frankly, his staff is very, very small. In New York City, 5-6 people.

It is a very, very different presidential campaign. The process

slows down a little bit and it winds its way through a more moderate

serious of states that have proportionality coming into play.

The process will slow down in terms of acceleration so when we get to

California and New Jersey, that is where we will see this figured out.

Back to Florida. A lot that he talked about. Marco Rubio? Yes,

well, I thought it was interesting that he mentioned Marco Rubio but

did not say a word about John Kasich. He said Marco Rubio fought a

tough campaign and had a good future ahead of him. Having now been at

Donald Trump events in California, Texas, are you bad, New Hampshire,

South Carolina, this is the most low-key I heard him. I thought he

sounded tired, finally? Yes, he was going to take questions from the

press. There was a scrum over their with people shouting questions but

he just walked out. He seemed slightly deflated, actually. Maybe I

reading too much into mood music but normally, what you get from him,

this was low. Maybe a recognition that this was going to be a tougher

fight through to the convention in Cleveland. I thought it was

interesting that at the beginning he talked about how exhausting and

tiring it is to run for US President. He knows he's going to

come out of super Tuesday with the nomination. It makes a big

difference going forward. He had to give a much more nuanced message to

date. -- today. I did not think he was proclaiming... He said the

Republican Party had to unite at he was more less assuming that he was

the nominee two weeks ago but I did not sense that this evening. It has

still a long way to run, it is a three horse race I involved in and

it will take longer than I originally thought. Probably his

original thought was he would win in Ohio but did not. What does Donald

Trump do now apart from getting a nice sleep? I think he is gameplan

is simple, continued doing what he has been doing. It has been

successful so far. Repeat and play, repeat and play. Keep flying on to

those primaries. I do not think it changes at it. There is not the

argument that we can change a thing about his message. All the attacks,

advertising, negatives that are widely understood and discussed in

the public seem to be bouncing like of him. I disagree. He needs to

broaden his at Peel to win before the convention. -- broaden his

appeal. He had a huge opportunity with the riots and people beaten up

at its events to say that is wrong. He needs to start acting far more

presidential and less childlike. In the Fox News debate I thought he was

unmasked as a totally ignorant on his positions. It is going to

persuade the Republican Party that he has a chance of winning the

election he has to start doing something about his negatives and

has to get to 63% of the remaining votes will not he has to broaden the

appeal. We have to leave it there for the moment. Do stay with us for

more coverage of super Tuesday. Latest developments on the website.

You can download our application and see who is there. We are inching

closer to results on both sides. Stay with us.

Good morning to the next few days should stay mainly dry and are not

settle for most of us but it will not be sunny. Tuesday we got some

sunshine in western parts lifting temperatures of 216 degrees. You

really did get the raw end of the deal south. It is all because high

pressure is in charge of our weather. Around this high pressure,

the winds working around the high, they always be big lumps of clouds

passing by. Many places with the old spot of drizzle. Things shoot

brighten up a bit across many parts of England and Wales. -- should. For

the far west of Scotland. Where we get the best of the brightness

temperatures up to 16 degrees. Similar stories for north-east

India. Manchester 10 degrees if you get breaks in the cloud and some

sunshine. Along the east coast, exposed to the north-easterly

breeze, 5-6 degrees. Should do better than that at the Cheltenham

Festival on Wednesday. As we get towards the end of the week there

will be increasing amounts of cloud and it will feel cold. Another lump

of cloud working its way internally. The old spot of drizzle but breaks

in the cloud and a touch of frost possible. Into Thursday, more of the

same and it looks quite unrelentingly cloudy. Many central

and eastern parts of Scotland and northern Ireland cloudy. Best

chances of sunshine on Thursday in the southern half of England and

southern Wales. On Friday, the high drifting west, we will see more of a

northerly wind, it will bring further areas cloud across the

country called as well. Into the weekend, it stays dry and settled

but often cloudy and where it is cloudy, distinctly cool.

Welcome to a BBC News special on the second Super Tuesday of

the race for the White House, with me, Katty Kay, live in Washington.

The latest updates: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins

decisively in Florida and Illinois.

Projectedto win North Carolina.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton wins primaries in Florida,

Ohio Governor John Kasich defeated Mr Trump in his home state, denting

New Yorker's march to the nomination.

Senator Marco Rubio suspends his campaign

after heavy defeat to Donald Trump in his home state.

Bernie Sanders in tight race with Hillary Clinton in Illinois and

Let's hear from Donald Trump who has just spoken at his resort in south

Florida. We started and something happened called Paris, Paris

happened. It was Paris and then we had a case in Los Angeles where it

was in California, where 14 young people were killed. It goes on and

on and on. What happened with me is this whole run took on a whole new

meaning. Not just borders, trade deals. We will make the best trade

deals you've ever seen. We've got endorsements from the smartest

people in business. These people are going to be negotiating and they are

the best in the world. We have the best business people in the world.

We will have such great deals and we will go so well with trade and on

the border. It took on a whole new meaning. The meaning was very

simple. We need protection in our country and that's going to happen.

I am just very proud to be a part of this. I think we are going to go and

we will do a lot of trips over the next month but I think we'll have a

great victory. More importantly, we are going to start winning again.

This country is going to start winning again. We don't win any

more. Donald Trump, speaking at his victory rally in Florida. I am

joined by Julian Epstein and Phil Musser. Where does tonight's result

leave Donald Trump and the Republican Party? Donald Trump is in

a position to clinch the nomination. We have talked about this scenarios

that could unfold. There is no way to say this isn't a massively good

night for Donald Trump. He will win across the board. He will collect

the delegates. He cannot say he is the Republican nominee. I think it

will go, as discussed, into June. We haven't heard from Senator Kruis,

who is waiting to see the result of conservative counties in western

Missouri that have not come in -- Cruz. If he can get a win, that

would validate his candidacy and give him a stable energy that

would... That is why we haven't seen him yet. It will be coming shortly.

I think he is hoping for it. We will bring you Ted Cruz when we get it.

Julian, where does it leave the Democrats? In as good a position as

we can hope Democrats? In as good a position as

we can -- she has twice the delegates of Bernie Sanders. She is

the nominee. People will say there is no possibility for Bernie Sanders

to get the nomination. She is effectively the nominee as of

tonight. I take a different point of view from Phil on the Republican

side. The kind of good news for them is that it is a 3-person race.

Donald Trump will have a hard time doing better than 35 or 40% in the

race going forward. If that is the case it is hard to see how he can

get the delegates to go into the convention with the number he needs

for the nomination. We go back to the brokered convention. That is I

think where it is headed. I would bet my money that Donald Trump will

not be the nominee for the Republican Party. We will be dusting

off the political rulebooks before the convention in Cleveland. Let's

hear from Hillary Clinton, speaking in south Florida at her campaign

headquarters. Interesting, she addressed Donald Trump, who she

assumes would be her adversary, making the pivot from the primary is

to the general election. -- primary is. Because of you and our

supporters across the country, our campaign has earned more votes than

any other candidate, Democrat or Republican.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. And I want to congratulate Senator

Sanders with a vigorous campaign he is waiting. Now, today, all of you

in the states were contests were held, voted to break down the

barriers that hold us all back, so everyone of us can share in the

promise of America. You voted... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

You voted for our tomorrow to be better than our yesterday.

Tomorrow, where all of us do our part and everyone has a chance to

live up to his or her God-given potential.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Because that is how America can live

up to its potential too. Now, we need you to keep working, keep

volunteering. Keep contributing at Hillary Clinton .com. Please join

the 900,000 supporters who have contributed, mostly less than $100,

because our campaign depends on small donations with the majority of

support. We cannot do this without you. So, if you have been waiting

for the right moment, now is the time to come and join us. Hillary

Clinton speaking a short time ago down in Florida. Of course, it was a

good night for her. We can cross live to our correspondent. Let's

take this forward. You said she will take a break but she has a lot more

primaries to run. Do you think that Hillary Clinton has to adapt her

message to try to get those Bernie Sanders supporters on her side? How

do she managed the transition from primary to the general election

while keeping Bernie Sanders supporters, or trying to bring them

along with her? She is hoping that they will realise that she is their

best choice when it comes to the general election. It is a message

she has not quite focused on so far but you can see this evening she was

pivoting to the general election. She was telling Democrats, listen

up, it is time, the general election is here and starting a she was

attacking Donald Trump. The first time she mentioned him in a speech

by name, pushing back against his rhetoric and making a list of what

it is the next president has to do, not just on the economy, improving

it further, but also to keep the country safe and get it back

together. She has had trouble with young voters, supporters of Bernie

Sanders. Her answer is, they might not be for me but I am for them and

that is one reason why, even though she is already the nominee, they are

not willing to declare it. I asked one of her advisers if they are

ready to say it is impossible for Mr Sanders to win the nomination and

they said no. They will let it play out and they will hope that Bernie

Sanders, when he sees this unfold, will drop out of the race. There is

no sign of that from Mr Sanders but that is the hope. When he does that

there will be conversations about how he can bring his supporters and

the excitement of the young voters he has gathered by Twell over the

last month, to her side, because a she said this evening, in her view

this is a very consequential action, not just for the US but for the

world. Few people if any that I can think of are as well in politics as

Hillary Clinton. She can't say the electorate doesn't know her. What

can she do to -- do to try to close the gap? Donald Trump has voters who

are absolutely passionate. You don't feel that passion even amongst

Democrats who say they will vote for Clinton and support her. She lacks

that enthusiasm. What can she do to try to change that? What her aides

will tell you is that there is no enthusiasm gap. They say she is a

head not only in the delegate count, but she is the one getting

more votes. She is ahead of Donald Trump. In the last country was ahead

of him by 600,000 votes. As you see the election go forward and if Mr

Trump becomes the nominee, she can excite the democratic base by

pushing the message that this consequential to stay at home. Thank

you. Just for those who are joining the coverage, to recap - Marco Rubio

from Florida has suspended his campaign after he lost the state of

Florida to Donald Trump. John Kasich, the popular governor, the

Republican from Ohio, won in Ohio. It was a bank all win for him. He

had to win that state in order to stay in the race. Here is what he

said after his victory. It has been my intention to have young people

across this country what somebody enter into politics, even though I

laboured in obscurity for so long, people counting me out, people in

Ohio saying, why don't they ever call on him? We get all that. We put

one foot in front of the other and I want to remind you tonight that I

will not take the low road to the highest office in the land.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. One of the best lines in the

campaign tonight. To remind you, we are waiting for Ted Cruz to speak in

Houston. He is the only candidate who has not spoken so far. He is

waiting for the result in Missouri to give a speech about Missouri.

Someone who endorses Ted Cruz is up on stage at the moment in Houston.

We assume Ted Cruz will come out soon. Let's hear from our

correspondent in Cleveland. I loved that line. I won't take the low road

to the highest land in the office. What happens to his road to the

highest land in the office? They need 1237 delegates to win outright.

As of now he has around 129. There are about 1000 to play for. There

are delegates that are now floating free from Marco Rubio. He would need

something in the order of 90% of the remaining delegates to get anywhere

near that majority. He is banking on coming back to Cleveland for the

Republican convention in July. And getting into a fight for the

nomination. At the moment, that is a high risk strategy. It looks quite

remote. If you were thinking about things now and try to project

forward, you might think is low road, or his high Road, is still

heading for the ditch. Interestingly, on trade he has been

a supporter of free trade deals, including NAFTA, and he has been hit

quite hard, but he has pulled out a win in Ohio. Yes. He has gone after

him big-time, Donald Trump, on the issue of trade. We know it has been

a big theme of the Trump campaign. The question of jobs leaving the

country. Donald Trump promising to bring them back from China and so

on. He has resisted that and that has been a combination of things. He

has a huge organisation on the ground. He has been governor since

2010. That gives him an enormous advantage. The party machine he was

behind him. He also had quite a lot of people laying in with some strong

advertising in the last weeks. Quite negative advertising. He talks about

the negative advertising sponsored against Donald Trump here in the

state. His approval rating is strong. They are in the 60s. Among

Republicans that they are among the 80s. He should have been winning.

Things slipped when he pulled it back and this message, this

contrasting message, which was drowned out at the beginning of the

campaign, the, I am the nice guy who won't dip to the level of the

mudslinging, I will be civilised, I will do it the old-fashioned way,

that was drowned out and I think he is feeling, and he said it tonight,

he has had more attention in the last three weeks than in the last

six months, which he thinks is paying off. Thank you. Let's talk,

Julian... No, back to Houston, because Ted Cruz is coming onto the

podium. CROWD CHANT. Thank you so very much

and God bless each one of you. Thank you Dan Patrick for leading our team

here in the states of Texas and... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE and isn't

Carly extraordinary! Such a tremendous leader and, I have to

tell you, she terrifies Hillary Clinton! Hillary tosses and turns in

her jail cell thinking about her. Tonight was a good night. CHEERING

AND APPLAUSE. Tonight we continued to gain delegates and continue our

march. After the ninth, America now has a clear choice going forward. --

after tonight. Let me say a word about Marco Rubio top his friend,

colleague. He ran a strong, optimistic, positive campaign. His

story, the son of a bartender the son of a maid who fled Cuba to find

freedom. A powerful, inspirational story, his passion, inspires me. He

can paint the picture, we've a tapestry of the promise of America

like nobody else and his presidential campaign inspired

millions across the nation. Ait congratulate Marco Rubio and

Jeanette on their campaign. To those who supported Marco Rubio, who

worked so hard, we welcome you with open arms. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

With gratitude and with hope and with a positive vision together for

our great nation. We welcome you to join us along with remarkable lead

as like Governor Rick Perry and like all of the Republicans who are

uniting behind our campaign. From the National review to markedly...

Starting tomorrow morning, every Republican has a clear choice. Only

two campaign have a plausible path to the camp they. . Only one

campaign has beaten Donald Trump over and over and over again.

APPLAUSE. Not once, not twice, not three times but nine times all

across the country, from Alaska to Maine.

APPLAUSE. Going forward, the choice is straightforward. Do you want a

candidate who shares your values or a candidate who has spent decades or

posing your values? The mainstream media, the network sued to make the

decisions want Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. That is why they

haven't given him hundreds and millions in free advertising because

they are partisan Democrats ready for Hillary and they know that

Donald may be the one person on the face of the earth that Hillary

Clinton can beat in the general election. But the media are not

going to decide this election. The vote as well. CHEERING AND

APPLAUSE. And here is our vision for America Bash a brighter future,

greater opportunity for our kids and grandkids, more liberty and more

safety and more security. It is an America that is greater tomorrow

than it is today and it was yesterday. This election will focus

on three critical issues - jobs, freedom and security. As President,

my number one priority will be jobs. Turning around this stagnation, the

misery of the Obama - Clinton economy. It is easy to talk about

making America great again. You can even print that on a baseball cap

but the critical question is whether you understand the principles and

values that made America great in the first place. CHEERING AND

APPLAUSE. The heart of our economy is not in Washington, DC, the heart

of our economy is small businesses all across the United States of

America. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. If I am elected president, we will repeal

every word of Obamacare. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. We will pass a simple

flat tax and abolish the IRS. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. We will rein

in the EPA and the government regulators that are killing small

businesses. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. And we. Amnesty, secure the border

and sanctuary cities and end of benefits for those here illegally.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. The result will be millions upon millions of

high-paying jobs, wages and rising for people all across America, young

people coming out of school with 3-5 job opportunities. CHEERING AND

APPLAUSE. Far too many politicians focus on Washington, DC. To the

lobbyist, to those like Donald Trump who buy influence, and to those like

Hillary Vinton who sell influence, Washington is the centre of the

universe but we understand that not right. -- Hillary Clinton. Together,

we will make Washington less relevant in all of our lives.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. We will fire government regulators and repeal job

killing regulations and, together, we will take the boot of the Federal

government off the backs of small businesses all across this country.

-- the backs of the neck. It is not about the Crummer -- crooner but

less government is more freedom. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE high-heeled

wages and a better standard of life for all of us. -- higher wages.

Freedom is the second critical issue of this election. Two debates ago,

Donald Trump promised all of us that he would compromise with Harry Reid

and Chuck Schumer of replacing Antonin Scalia. Our rights hang in

the balance and let me be very, very clear to the people of America, I

will not compromise away your religious freedom. And I will not

compromise away your second Amendment right to keep and bear

arms. And every justice are you port to the court will be faithful to the

law and will ferociously protective bill of rights for your children and

for mine. -- protect. The first critical issue in this election is

security for top for seven years we have abandoned our friends and

allies and we have shown a weakness and appeasement to our enemies. Two

debates ago, Donald Trump promised, as President, to be neutral between

Israel and the Palestinians. Well let me be clear, as President, I

will not be neutral. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. America will stand,

unapologetically, with the nation of Israel. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. And

anyone who cannot tell the difference between our friends and

our enemies, who cannot tell the difference between Israel and the

Islamic terrorists who seek to murder us, that raises real

questions about their fitness and judgement to be commander in chief.

APPLAUSE. Donald Trump says he will keep in place this Iranian nuclear

deal and try to renegotiate it. I will reap this read this Iranian

nuclear deal on my very first day in office. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Over

seven years, President Obama has weakened and undermined the

military. We have seen this before with another weak democratic

president, Jimmy Carter, who did the same thing and in January 1981,

Ronald Reagan came into office... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. What did

Ronald Reagan do? It cut taxes, lifted regulations and pulled

government of the backs of the necks of small businesses, it created jobs

and revenue and the use the money to rebuild the military. STUDIO:

Invoking the wells, Ronald Reagan as the standardbearer of the

conservative movement, he is waiting for the results. Stay with us for

full Courage -- coverage of who America voted for. You can go to our

website for all the results. Stay with us.

The next few days should stay mainly dry and settled for most of us but

And it certainly wasn't sunny for us on Tuesday.

Yes, we got some sunshine in western parts, lifting temperatures

Compare that with just 6 down the east coast.

You really did get the raw end of the deal here, with a lot

of cloud and a key north-easterly breeze making it feel chilly.

It is all because high pressure is in charge of our weather.

Around this high pressure, in the flow, the winds working

around this high, they were always going to be big lumps

We have a big lump of cloud to start Wednesday morning, actually.

Many places grey, even the odd spot of drizzle.

As we go through the day, things should brighten up a bit across

Probably more sunshine here than we had during Tuesday.

Some sunshine for Northern Ireland and also for the far west

Where we get the best of the brightness, we could again

Compare that with just 6 in Aberdeen, where you'll cling on

to cloud, a bit of mist and mirk, maybe the odd spot of drizzle.

Similar stories for north-east England.

But come further south, Manchester 10 degrees if you get breaks

Throughout Wales and the south-west, the Midlands,

into East Anglia and the south-east, some sunny breaks, but

along this east coast, where you're exposed to that north-easterly

Should do a little better than that at the

Gradually, as we get towards the end of the week,

there will be increasing amounts of cloud and it will feel cold.

As we move through Wednesday night, through the early hours of Thursday,

another lump of cloud working its way in, turning cloudy for most.

Even the old spot of drizzle in places but where we get breaks

in the cloud it could get cold enough for a touch of frost.

Could be mist and fog patches too where

Into Thursday, more of the same and it looks quite unrelentingly cloudy.

Many central and eastern parts of Scotland and northern Ireland

Best chances of sunshine on Thursday in the southern half of England

On Friday, the high drifting west, we will see more

of a northerly wind, it will bring further areas cloud

of a northerly wind, it will bring further areas of cloud

Into the weekend, it stays dry and settled but often cloudy and where

Welcome to a BBC News special on the second Super Tuesday of

the race for the White House, with me, Katty Kay, live in Washington.

The latest updates: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton wins primaries in

Ohio Governor John Kasich defeated Mr Trump in his home state, denting

Florida Senator Marco Rubio suspends his campaign after heavy defeat to

Bernie Sanders is in a tight race with Hillary Clinton

We are waiting for the Republican result from Missouri. Ted Cruz and

Donald Trump are in a tight race. Let's hear from Donald Trump who

spoke just a while ago at a resort in south Florida.

We started, and something happened called Paris. It was a disaster.

There have been many. It was Paris. Then we had the case in Los Angeles

where it was, where 14 people were killed. It goes on and on and on.

What happened with me is this whole run took on new meaning not just on

borders and trade deals, we will make the best trade deals you have

ever seen. We have endorsements from the smartest people in business.

These people will negotiate these deals. They are the best in the

world. We are going to have such great deals. We will do so good with

trade. We will do so good on the border. It took on a whole new

meaning. The meaning was simple - we need protection. That is going to

happen. All of a sudden, the numbers shot up. I am proud to be part of

this. I think we will go and do a lot of trips over the next month but

we will have a great victory. More importantly, we are going to start

winning again. This country is going to start winning again. We don't win

any more. Donald Trump cannot yet call himself the Republican Party

nominee for the White House but he has had a good night with that

substantial win in the state of Florida. Marco Rubio from Florida

did not have a good night. He lost his home state. If you are running

for the presidency and you lose your home state, you might as well pack

up and go home and that is what he did. It is not God's plan that I am

president in 2016 or ever may be, and today my campaign is suspended,

the fact that I have come this far is evidence of how special America

truly is. And all the reason more why we must do what we can to ensure

this place remain special. I asked the American people to not get into

fear and frustration. We can disagree on public policy and we can

disagree passionately, but we are hopeful and we have every right to

be hopeful. We are the descendants of go-getters. In our veins runs the

blood of people who gave it up so we have the chances they never did. We

are the descendants of someone who made our future the purpose of their

lives. Marco Rubio has suspended his campaign for the nomination for the

presidency. I am joined by Phil Musser and Julian Epstein. Thank you

for staying with me through this long night. Let me start with you,

Phil. I keep thinking this must be a campaign of what

Phil. I keep thinking this must be a campaign of if's, and what if Donald

Trump hadn't run? Great question. It is hard to play that game. If Trump

had not sucked up his energy, I think Marco Rubio might not have

been the necessary vessel for it. Ted Cruz, who we heard earlier, was

a more likely recipient. His message has been anti- Washington aimed at

not having anything to do with Washington. The message Senator

Rubio delivered, playing to the angels of the process, is not where

a large, angry populist, conservative base of the Republican

Party is an ultimately that disconnect is why he was an --

unable to gain traction in Florida because people turned out and voted

for Donald Trump. John Kasich, who has not played to the angry base of

the Republican Party, won his home state. His appeal has not been that

strong outside Ohio. The exit polls, some of them, show 60% of

Republicans feel betrayed by their own party. We should remind

everyone, I find it one of the most fascinating parts of this, when

pollsters are asking voters what they feel, what are the issues and

concerns and we get a flavour of how... 60% feel their own party has

let them down. In some states it is as high as 60%. The exit polls are

fascinating. For Hillary Clinton, to take one state in North Carolina,

80% of the African-American vote went to her. It was slipping when

Bernie Sanders got 35%. She has solidified the wall. 60% of women

vote in Florida. She got 60% of the Spanish vote. In North Carolina, the

alarm, the caution for her was she lost independence by 60%. She lost

18 to 29 75%. Women and men? In the 18 to 29 young vote, yes. With white

men she lost 57% in North Carolina, although she won that white men in

Carolina. Those concerns, independent young voters, they are

warning signs for her. When you look at where Hillary Clinton has

weaknesses, she is not the strongest candidate for the Democratic Party,

how does it leave the Republican chances of taking on Hillary

Clinton? What do they need to do to win the White House? We need a fully

unified party that is bringing people in. We cannot run and win a

traditional base collection. The white vote in the country no longer

can be relied on by the Republicans to drive wins at the presidential

level. We need to expand with Hispanics and with women. There is a

whole demographic we need to succeed with. One thing with your viewers

you might be interested in with Donald Trump is the Donald Trump

voter in Ohio, exit polls have showed interesting things. For

reasons that are not clear, he is very competitive with evangelicals.

He polled with John Kasich with evangelicals. He won by almost a two

to one margin for those making less than $50,000. What you are seeing is

the lower income, less educated evangelical class of Republican

voter who in some cases don't have a history of voting, they are turning

out. That is the backbone of this coalition. Let's hear from the

candidate meant to be of Evander -- evangelicals, Ted Cruz from Texas,

and our correspondent is at the headquarters. We just heard him

speaking, Ted Cruz, talking about his campaign and how he will go

forward. And how he is the only one apart from Donald Trump with a

numerical chance of winning this collection. It is an appeal

effectively to John Kasich who drop out of the race. They are waiting

for the result from Missouri. How are they feeling. Missouri looks

like it is a dead heat. They are pinning a lot of hopes on Missouri

coming out for Ted Cruz. It is worth noting, I was talking to one of his

political directors not long ago and he said that a good night for the

Ted Cruz campaign would not necessarily be winning any states

but just picking up more delegates to add to his tally. Missouri would

be nice to have but in terms of their expectations they were not

necessarily hoping to win it. We have been looking at the tally for

somewhere like North Carolina. It looks like Ted Cruz has picked up 24

delegates. Remember, before we came in, it was around 100 short of

Donald Trump. He still believes he is the only candidate who can beat

him. He believes he is the only candidate who can beat Hillary

Clinton in a general election. Phil Musser was saying about the

evangelical vote and how Donald Trump has got evangelical voters. We

heard Ted Cruz saying, I am the conservative who has always

supported your values and implying Donald Trump has flip-flopped on

these conservative evangelical values. How frustrating is it for

the campaign that they have lost in some states the evangelical voters

to Donald Trump? It is frustrating. When you speak to people on the

campaign, they will highlight the wind and tell you Ted Cruz is the

only candidate who has beaten him. He took to the stage and said he has

beaten him nine times. Interesting that you talk about the evangelical

base. Some of his speech was about policy. He promised to protect

religious freedoms and the right to bear arms. That is music to this

crowd's years. They want to hear that. I have travelled to a dozen

states in this election season. Whenever I have met a Ted Cruz

supporter, they have been extremely passionate. In the main, they have

been evangelical Christians. Many I have met, if not all of them, don't

like the Donald Trump brand of language and find some of it crass.

Not very family-oriented. That is something Ted Cruz can bank on an

count on. Yes, while there are supporters of the evangelical base,

Ted Cruz is trying to energise his base, which is why he didn't play

politics but simply talked about policy. Policy this crowd expects

from him but nonetheless he repeated that. What does Ted Cruz to? How

does he take this nomination from Donald Trump -- do? His campaign