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we projected romney as the winner in all three of these contests. 27% of the vote in maryland is now in. romney significantly ahead with 47% to 31% for rick santorum. newt gingrich and ron paul trail in washington, d.c. santorum was not on the ballot and did not qualify. in wisconsin, mitt romney ahead right now with third. almost a third of the vote in and he has 43% to tlealt%. 6% for newt gingrich. lets bring in our own candy crowley covering the romney campaign. she is up in milwau...

>> you know, its because it is election day. but heres an important fact that is that romney could meet the official half way mark of the nomination by the delegate count. hes met that right now. he could surpass that if he wins the three contests later on today. >> its amazing, too, because rick santorum, pennsylvania is close to maryland. you think hed have a real shot there but he doesnt. he didnt show up and you talked to him yesterday, the former governor there. he was like mitt romney and ...

Doing what clinton in 96 connecting bob doyle to newt gingrich. i think it will be interesting to see how mitt romney talks about the ryan budget. what he says tonight in his speech. that will be the elephant in the room because you saw the president today really pivot so strongly to the general election mentioning mitt romneys name for the first time. it will be interesting tonight to hear what mitt romney says in this speech. a lot of his speeches have been very much hammering president obama ...

shot them one by one. we are taking you live to oakland for the latest in just about ten minutes. voters are heading to the polls today in three contests. wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia are holding republican primaries. mitt romney predicted a win in wisconsin and holds a big lead in maryland polls. wisconsin will be a key swing state in november. its one of the few winner-take-all stakes in the republican race. rick santorum seems to be looking beyond todays contes...

>> yesterday, republican presidential candidate mitt romney said "hell probably be the nominee" but rick santorum says not so fast! >> i mean, this race isnt at halftime yet. we havent selected half the delegates yet. governor romney isnt half way to the magic number. >> thats where he compared himself to the kansas jayhawks. with the current delegate count, rick santorum would have to win the next eight contests in order to surpass romneys current delegate count. so why is he still in the race?...

More frustration on rick santorums part. hes getting frustrated with the questions about him exiting the race with what he believes is a long way to go. hes trailing in the delegate count. one thing i wanted to mention, the santorum campaign saying that theyre in it to try to win this thing. theyre not in it to make a point. so they want to look forward, they want to look forward to the race in pennsylvania on the 24th. the problem for them is that theyve got a current issue, a current problem i...

list. shes the host of "the takeaway." peter beiart author of "the crisis of zionism" political writer for "the daily beast" and will cain is a columnist for theblaze.com. nice to have you all. another trayvon martin march this morning, this time of course the defense team for the martin family is hoping to bring some pressure on investigators, not only to arrest george zimmerman as theyve continually maintained, they also want to look into the attorney who apparently sort of dismissed...

>>greg: bottom of the hour and time for the top of the news. republican establishment is gathering around romney with mcconnell saying it is time for the party to town to the general election with romney the clear leader in the delegate count. congressman paul ryan is apologizing to the joint chiefs saying he misspoke when he said the military is not giving "true advice," on president obamas defense budget. and an update on a story we have reported, crews in new mexico recovering the body of lon...

>> what are the teens parents asking for. >> this all goes back to last week when reports began to surface on the night of st shooting of trayvon martin aparentally felt that he doubted the story of george zimmerman. in fact what he wanted to do was charge him with negligent homicide or manslaughter. you even see those accounts on the initial police report. however he was overruled by the state attorneys office. well, this is rays real question marks in the familys man. why if the lead...

If youre rick santorum at this appointment, if you know youre not going to mathematically get mitt romney, the least you can do is stay in the race to force him to move or stay in this very far conservative area that hes in. basically, ensuring that mitt romney hears the voices of the people who are supporting you. if mitt romney wants those people to then come out in november to vote for him. that will be very tough. the folks who are voting for santorum are voting for santorum for a reason. th...