Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. I am a unifiers. Once we get all this finished, im going to go after one person, thats Hillary Clinton. America never stopped being
great. We have to make america whole. We have to fill in. Make America Great again is going to be much better than making america whole again. When we bring our people together, when we do not allow the Donald Trumps of the world to divide us up [ cheers and applause ] we will not allow the next president of the United States to be a socialist like Bernie Sanders. [ cheers and applause ] and we will not allow the next president of the United States to be someone under fbi investigation like Hillary Clinton. Head to head. Our campaign beats donald trump resoundingly. But far to happen, we must come together. Super tuesday was a sweeping victory for donald trump. Trump claimed big wins in the south, a 22point margin in alabama, 14point victories in tennessee and georgia with tight erwins in arkansas and virginia. Up north, his margin of victory
in massachusetts was 31 points. Thats unbelievable. And in vermont he won by three points over john kasich. 31point lead in massachusetts. 20 plus in alabama. This was a national sweep. Ted cruz carried oklahoma and his home state of texas by a comfortable margin, 44 to trumps 27 . Senator cruz also picked up alaska early this morning with nbc news projecting cruz winning that states caucuses by less than a thousand votes. Marco rubio got his only victory late in the night in the minnesota caucuses. Were still trying to figure out exactly what the rules to those caucuses were and John Heilemann will help us with that. 37 to cruz at 29 with donald trump finishing at 21 . Overall trump came away with the most delegates last night. 210 so far. He is leading the field in the total delegate count with over 100 more delegates than ted cruz
and nearly triple the amount claimed by marco rubio. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton sol e clinton sol phied her status. She won massachusetts, swept across the south claiming victories in arkansas, tennessee, virginia, texas, georgia and alabama, she also won the caucuses in american samoa. Senator sanders notched wins in vermont, oklahoma, colorado, and minnesota. Heres a look at the super tuesday map on the democratic side at this hour. Nbc news is allocating 461 delegates to clinton and 295 to sanders. Add those totals to the delegates the candidates had accumulated in the four previous contests as well as the super delegates and the race now stands clinton 979, sanders, 382. With us this morning we have nicolle wallwallace. She doesnt sleep. So anything is possible. And Mark Halperin is with us. Shes already trashed soccer, said its a stupid sport. Oh, stop it. You were amazing last night. Willie geist, you look at the headline. Were going to be showing a clip in a bit about how we predicted this way ahead of everybody else but you look at this headline, trump and clinton feast as 12 states vote. As we said two years ago, this race was going to come down to manhattan versus Westchester County and thats what happened. Do you go with chappaqua or manhattan . Youve got two basically new york moderates well call them who will be the nominees for their parties. Trump very impressive last night. Cruz more impressive than we thought winning three states. I thought it was interesting to watch all the speeches. Donald trump looked like a president who had just was holding a News Conference in the east room. He had all the staging. But can i say, though, it was
a beautiful east room. More beautiful. A lot of gold. Fancy one. It was a fancy east room. So you had trump there, you had Hillary Clinton talking purely about the general election saying we need love and kindness saying the rhetoric on the republican side is no good. Shes pivoted. Then you had ted cruz who felt like he had a good night winning three states saying to everyone else besides donald trump in the republican field, politely guys, time to get out. Its me versus donald trump. Obviously marco will stay in and try for florida and kasich for ohio. Exact lift ted cruz had a much better night than expected. People are still saying he needs to get out of the race. Marco rubio last night attacked ted cruz, said he underperformed just like he said donald trump underperformed after winning nevada by 22 points. Hard to do that when you perform the worst of the three. Donald trump took in the result from his state in palm beach and called a prime Time Press Conference with new Jersey Governor Chris Christie at his side. Trump congratulated ted cruz on
winning texas, pushed back against marco rubios recent attacks and otherwise looked past the primary to the general. I want to congratulate ted on the oning of texas. He worked hard on it. I know how hard he worked, actually. I congratulate ted cruz on that win. It was an excellent win. It was a tough night for marco rubio. He had a tough night. [ laughter ] he worked hard. He spent a lot of money. He is a lightweight as ive said many times before. He was very, very nasty. Ive never heard a person get up and speak on an evening like this and be so nasty but he has a right to be nasty. He hasnt won anything and hes not going to win very much. Nicolle wallace, sort out last night. What do you see . A lot of the conversation was about the fractured Republican Party, as if thats a new development. The fact were down to three illuminate what iss been going on for many, many months with the establishment pinning its opens on anyone other than cruz and trump for very different reasons. Cruz mostly because they dont
like him and hes been a divisive figure in the senate. If thats the case, the establishment got destroyed last night, pummelled, finished. Its already dead, that would suggest its still viable. The difference is we talk about the establishment as though its the operatives. There is a class of people that govern under the banner of republican thabs was very alarmed that it took trump three day days to clarify he disavows donald trump and the kkk every time they express support for him. So those who govern under the banner had legitimate cause for alarm. Theres concern that the senate will be in jeopardy with trump at the top of the ticket but, yes, the establishment class in terms of the political operative class, conservative media class rooting for rubio even though he hasnt won much of anything, had a bad night. Its stunning much the gone
establishment class put their hopes on marco rubio who is getting destroyed in state after state. He had a horrific night last night. Their two enemies trump and ted cruz owned the most important date in the the republican calendar in 2016. Is jon meacham said to me last night that Donald Trumps victory and continued ascent in the Republican Party could mean the end of the Republican Party as we know it. That george w. Bush could be the last elected republican president. Whether trump runs as an independent, whether theres warfare at the convention, that is party coming apart. But right now donald trump has commandeered a successful hostile takeover and he owns it. He owns this Republican Party. Yeah. The hostile takeover is still under way in some sense because the people the ceo and board of directors of the party are
resisting, right . But that makes it sound like you think they could actually fight back from this hostile takeover. Im not going to make predictions about the success or lack of success about whats about to happen but to nicolles point, the last three or four days has been an oe my god moment for donald trump. It came late for republicans to realize he was the likely republican nominee. Today hes the more likely republican nominee than he was yesterday and the level of the freakout in the republican establishment today is going to be greater than it was even the last three days. So what now happens going forwa forward . On the basis of these result, marco rubio isnt getting out of the race, ted cruz isnt getting out of the race, john kasich isnt getting out of the race and everybody who wants to stop donald trump is going to redouble their efforts. I dont predict success or failure. It will be a messy ugly few weeks Going Forward because everyone looking at these totals says donald trump did really, really, really well tonight but hes not the de facto nominee. Hes the frontrunner still and
more likely today than he was yesterday but the party is going to focus on how do we get to a contested convention . How dewho stop him from getting a majority of delegates. And Mark Halperin, when you have a candidate winning in massachusetts by how many points what did he win massachusetts by . 30 points maybe . He won by 31 points in massachusetts the same night he won by over 20 points in alabama and across the deep south. Theres very it will it will republican establishment can do. There is no republican establishment anymore and despite them working against donald trump for the past nine months for better, for worse, for good reasons or for ill, promoting rubio for the past nine months, trashing ted cruz for the past nine months, none of it is working on any count. Complete misfire. Republican voters are not listening to any of them. And the media are in washington,
d. C. Well, the establishment cant stop trump and the outside groups, no matter how much they raise and spend cant stop him but i think there are still three people, ill disagree with nicolle a little bit, not two, but three people who have a chance to keep him from getting the majority of the delegates. Hes the overwhelming favorite, the win he is had were impressive but he lost some states. That shows that this saturday with a handful of contests then the following tuesday with p particularly michigan then the big states where winner take all starts, theres the possibility that these three guys can divide up the map to make trump fight multi fronts and maybe lose states. Let me push back for a second. Trump lost texas, ted cruzs state. He lost oklahoma right next to texas, he lost the minnesota caucuses and he lost alaska do they have caucuses in alaska . He lost the alaska caucuses. Do you really see that as an equal splitting of the map . Its an overwhelming night for trump. Exactly. But he didnt win virginia by very much. Hes the overwhelming favorite. All im saying is these three guys now have a chance. Rather than a winnowing, because i agree with John Heilemann, youre not going to see a winnowing now. They have a chance to maybe fight trump on multiple fronts and maybe, maybe, slow him down from the majority. Im not predicting it. All im saying is theres some indications on the results last night that hes not as strong as i thought he would be last night and its possible that if something occurs, if one of these guys gets a hot enough hand in individual states its possible they could stop him from getting a majority. With all due respect i find it hard to imagine a more dominant night than donald trump had last night. I dont know what results youre looking at. This guy won by massive margins in different regions of the
country. Won in virginia. Is he won across the board. Again, im not joe, he had a super dominating night and hes got a very stronghold on the nomination. Im saying theres a scenario now based on particularly virginia where i could imagine whats the scenario . Well, he loses ho to john kasich. He loses florida to rubio. Lets look though really quickly at florida, for instance. Nicolle wallace, in a region i know very well, the northern part of florida, you look at culturally how donald trump did in georgia. And South Carolina and alabama. And in south california, georgia, on the border, he beat everybody by 30 or 40 points. Marco rubio has no presence in north florida. That matters in republican primary. Again, im not trying to say this thing is over. I dont see a pathway forward. The path forward isnt to victory. Its to blocking donald trump. Correct. From getting the 1200 delegates he needs. So the path forward isnt a path toward victory, its toward blocking him. Then what . You think theres rank dmor tco Republican Party now . We are here because everyone stayed in. Which i recall if donald trump could have laid out a scenario better, he said, let cruz win just enough to keep him in the race. Let marco win one state. Theyre still helping him. And the notion that someone will find religion as ted cruz literally suggested last night and get out now is another republican fantasy. Just look at them. You cant say this enough. Viz victory was huge and the
goal if you have to focus on this, how do you keep the game now is not marco rubio getting the magic number. Hes not going to get there. We can say that now. Ted cruz unlikely to get a majority of delegates. The question is now can the party in one way or the other keep trump from getting to 1237, whatever that number is. Look at the delegate totals. Trump had a big night. Put those up please so we can see them again. Look at heilemann easy now. Look at me and well talk about it. It was only 20 dell delegates short of trumps number. I understand. And youre right. It comes down to ohio and florida. And all that matters is the delegate count. I dont know if you guys have to keep the drama up for your
show but this thing, im not saying its over but its pretty damn close on both sides. Donald trump has won all these delegates, you get to the convention and then you tell the Republican Party hes won all these states but hes not the nominee. You cant do that. Im not rooting for an outcome, im telling you what the republican part key is going to try to do. Thats the game Going Forward. They may fail. Thats the problem, not the game. Trump could win in florida and ohio and shut the whole thing down. Im not rooting for an outcome, either. I was a jeb bush supporter, im a i will probably vote for john kasich if hes still around
in connecticut. We havent rooted for outcomes and well show clips. Weve just told everybody what was going to happen, willie, mika, and myself. And were going to say the same thing weve been saying for nine months and stupid people out there have been saying oh, you must be rooting for no. If youre john madden and you see somebody throw five interceptions you say he sucks, take him off the field. If you see somebody throwing across his body 45 yards you say hell probably be the quarterback that wins the super bowl. So i can say this again mika and willie for the 8,000th time let me say it simmer. If any other candidate had the night donald trump had last night they would be throwing rose petals at his feet and saying all hail the new nominee. Isnt that the point, you guys . Yes, and people have been blinded for nine months. What we have seep clearly, people have been blinded by and
now theyre going this is epic. Ive told people and Mark Halperin told people for nine month, marco rubio doesnt have it. He cant even throw a five and out. Dont invest in it. People are like oh, you hate marco. I dont even know him. But we knew this was going to happen. Same thing with trump. Theyve been blinded by what they want to see happening. And now you want to see the party do something. Its not desire. Oh, yes it is. No, its not oh, come on. When you have a guy that takes three days to disavow the kkk, its not the desire for him to lose, its the terror of what hell do to the party. Its not denial whats the difference . The difference is youre willing a different outcome for the good of the party. The difference is youre coffering the story in a way that you wouldnt if a different candidate was in the lead. But were not talking about what should happen and willie weve never talked about what we want to happen, weve talked about what will happen and its happening and the party has been blind to it and now theyre
going, oh, my god, what are we going to do . Could have seen this coming . There was an interview last night, Chris Matthews was in texas. He had tom delay on him and tom delay was making the case john and mark are making which is i dont accept this result, well take this to con t convention in their defense, they havent said that. Youre putting to that out as a plausible alternative to donald trump. And how do you tell the voters that weve heard what youve said but thats a suggestion, we want this guy to be our nominee. Ben ginsburg was on the network last night and made the correct point which is theres a reason why these rules exist. The rules exist so if someone doesnt get a majority of delegates that you can have a second ballot at the convention. Thats what the rules are designed to take advantage of. My only point is i couldnt care less what the outcome of this is, its just interesting. Whats different this time, joe, i think is that in almost any
nomination fight ive seen when you get a dominant frontrunner, the party wants there to be they look at that frontrunner and the party wants to coalesce behind them. Lets get this over with. Lets get behind mitt romney, john mccain, whoever. I understand. But what im saying is the party has no power, the conservative media has no power, the voters have taken this into their own hands and whether you like it or not, again, we pass no judgment. Were just looking at a guy that can throw a 30 and out on a line. And, joe, has the party done anything yet . Has the party done something to try and stump trump . Im just asking. Has there been any act . Theyre about to. Has anything happened . Well has anything happened . Because unless something happens the more we prognosticate, its the more youre showing your wishes. What i think youre about to see is major money put behind efforts to stop trump from
winning ohio and to stop trump from winning florida and that money cannot stop him alone. Its going to take performance by kasich, performance by rubio. Not cheering for an outcome, not predicting for an outcome. But the trump goes to the convention with 40 of the g delegates. Does anybody anything that spending money against donald trump is going to work . No, but mark is right, there was