Ted Cruz won all 40 of the Utah delegates, taking a majority of the votes (69%) and kicking in the winner-take-all provision. Donald Trump only took 14%. (Mormons do not like Trump.) Bernie Sanders (80%) also took all of the delegates in that hot-bed of socialism. (Mormons do not like Hillary Clinton [20%].)
But Trump was the winner who took all in Arizona, picking up 58 delegates with 40% of the vote. Cruz had 25%. And Clinton won on the Democratic side with 58% of the vote to Sanders’ 40%.
Sanders also won the Democratic caucuses in Idaho, with 78% of the vote to Clinton’s 21%.
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From Primary results: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton score key Western victories – CNNPolitics.com:
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton notched convincing victories in Arizona, picking up the biggest prize on Western Tuesday that moved the front-runners ever closer to a general election clash.
The Arizona wins handed enough delegates to Trump and Clinton to help them maintain their leads in the delegate count despite victories from their primary competitors.
Bernie Sanders won morale-boosting Democratic victories in Utah and Idaho while Ted Cruz came out on top in the Utah Republican caucuses.
But the big win for Cruz was meeting the 50% threshold in Utah, according to a CNN projection, that hands him all of the state’s 40 delegates. The Texas senator needed a win of that magnitude to avoid falling further behind Trump in the GOP delegate race.
Trump tweeted his thanks to voters in Arizona with its 58 delegates, claiming his victory in the winner-take-all primary was much larger than expected.
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