Interim weekend for the US primary. On the Republican front, voting took place on Saturday in four states (Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine) e Ted Cruz he nibbled on a little something at the fast pace Donald Trump: the two won two states each, but the proportional distribution of seats meant that the establishment candidate, Cruz, took home almost 70 delegates against less than 40 for Trump, who however remains ahead in the general calculation with 384 delegates against the opponent's 300. To win at the congress of Grand old party in June we need to reach 1.237: there is still a long way to go and a reaction from Cruz, who had come out with broken bones from Super Tuesday, was there. Proceeding at this pace, the pollsters argue, the entrepreneur should win anyway, but if the race were to be reduced to two challengers, as it is likely to be in the long run (the third in the standings is Marco Rubio, who however with only 151 delegates is effectively out of contention) then the favorite would become the 45-year-old of Canadian origin.
On the democratic front, on the other hand, votes were held between Saturday and Sunday in as many states: Louisiana, Maine, Kansas and Nebraska. Also in this case the candidate in pursuit won: it is the socialist Bernie Sanders, which won every state except Louisiana, taking home 66 delegates against 63 from Hillary Clinton. A significant recovery in terms of consensus but almost nil in terms of delegates, considering above all that the Vermont senator has a mountain to climb: counting the superdelegates (i.e. the establishment that has already supported Clinton) currently has - in view of Congress in June – less than half of the votes of her opponent: 498 against 1.129. You win at 2.383, so effectively the former First Lady he is already halfway there and according to projections he could win before – or at the most on the occasion – of the early June vote in California, the penultimate stage of the primaries before closing in Washington.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 8 March, there is another important round in the path that will lead to choosing the two challengers for the White House: on the Republican front there are votes in 4 states (Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan and Mississippi), on the democratic one only in Mississippi and Michigan. Nearly 200 delegates are assigned on both fronts: the key challenge is that of Michigan, whose most populous city is Detroit, the automobile capital of the world and therefore home to an electorate, the so-called working-class voters, very close to Sanders. In the Democratic primaries only in Michigan 147 delegates are assigned: if the socialist outsider were to grab a lot of them, he could still hope to reopen a game which, however, seems firmly in Hillary's hands.
