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LIVE UPDATE: ‘Super Saturday’ Primary Results

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Update 3/5 6:15 pm est: Politico is reporting that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the winner of Kansas with 50.6% of the vote. Donald Trump was second with 24.6% of the vote, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was third with 16.7%.

Kansas: Republican, 97.2% reported. Delegates Allocated: 23/40

In Maine, Cruz is leading with 48%. Trump is at 35%.

Update 3/5 7:07 pm est: In Maine, Cruz is leading at 43%. Trump is at 36.6%.

Update 3/5 7:31 pm est: In Kentucky. Republican, 3% reported. Delegates Allocated: 0/46

So far, Trump has 42.5% of the vote. Cruz (R-TX) is second with 33.5% of the vote, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is third with 12.9%.

Update 3/5 7:31 pm est: In Maine. Republican, 9.1% reported. Delegates Allocated: 0/23.

So far, Cruz (R-TX) is leading at 43% of the vote. Trump is second with 36.6% of the vote, and John Kasich (R-Ohio.) is third with 11.1%.

Update 3/5 8:02 pm est: Polls closed in Kentucky, Maine and Kansas.

Update 3/5 9:02 pm est: FoxNews is reporting that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the winner of Maine with 45.9% of the vote. Donald Trump was second with 32.6% of the vote, and John Kasich (R-Ohio.) is third with 12.2%.

Update 3/5 9:07 pm est: FoxNews is reporting that Bernie Sanders (D-VT) is the winner of Nebraska with 54.8% of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) with 45.2% of the vote.

Update 3/5 9:12 pm est: FoxNews is reporting that Donald Trump (R) is leading in Louisiana with 46% of the vote. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is 24% and Marco Rubia (R-FL) is third with 20%.

Update 3/5 9:24 pm est: Hillary Clinton (D) has won the Louisiana Democratic primary, according to a CNN projection. Clinton with 70.7% of the vote. Sanders with 21.7% of the vote.
Update 3/5 9:24 pm est: Bernie Sanders (D-VT) is the winner of Kansas.

Update 3/5 9:35 pm est: FoxNews reports Donald Trump (R) wins Louisiana. Donald Trump (R) 47.7%, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is 23.5% and Marco Rubia (R-FL) is third with 19.3%.

Update 3/5 9:36 pm est: In Kentucky Donald Trump (R) wins 35.9% of the vote. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is second with 31.6% of the vote, and Marco Rubio (R-FL) is third with 16.4% Politico reports. 

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LIVE UPDATE: Super Tuesday Results

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Update 3/1 7:15 pm est: Hillary Clinton (D) winner of Georgia (delegates at stake 102) and Virginia (delegates at stake 95). Bernie Sanders wins his home state of Vermont.

Update 3/1 7:24 pm est: Donald J. Trump (R) winner of GA (delegates at stake 76).

Update 3/1 8:01 pm est: Donald J. Trump (R) wins TN, Mass. and Alabama. [Total tally of wins for Trump: AL, VA, TN & GA.]

Update 3/1 8:01 pm est: Hillary Clinton (D) wins AL and TN. – [Total tally of wins for Clinton: AL, GA, TN & VA.]

Update 3/1 8:31 pm est: Hillary Clinton (D) wins Arkansas. [Total tally of wins for Clinton: AL, GA, TN, VA & AR.]

Update 3/1 8:39 pm est:  Donald J. Trump (R) wins Virginia. [Total tally of wins for Trump: AL, MA, TN, GA, VA.]

Update 3/1 9:04 pm est: Ted Cruz (R) and Hillary Clinton wins Texas. [Total tally of wins for Clinton: AL, GA, TN, VA, AR & TX.]

Update 3/1 9:22 pm est: Bernie Sanders wins Oklahoma. [Total tally of wins for Sanders: OK and Vermont.]

Update 3/1 9:30 pm est: Ted Cruz wins Oklahoma. [Total tally of wins for Cruz: OK and TX.]

Update 3/1 10:36 pm est: Donald J. Trump (R) wins Arkansas. [Total tally of wins for Trump: AL, MA, TN, GA, VA, VT, AK.]

Update 3/1 11:25 pm est: Marco Rubio (R) wins Minnesota.

Update 3/1 11:25 pm est: 

Clinton: AL, AR, GA, TN, TX, VA, MA | Sanders: CO, MN, OK, VY | Trump: AL, AR, GA, MA, TN, VA, VT. | Cruz: OK, TX, AK | Rubio: MN

 

 

Featured, Foreign Policy, International

Sen. Graham: Without U.S. Boots on the Ground vs. ISIS, ‘There’s a 9/11 Coming’

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U.S. Senator from South Carolina and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that the U.S. will be victimized by a terror attack if it does not send ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

“I’m trying to protect America from another 9/11, and without American boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, we’re gonna get hit here at home. And if you don’t understand that, you’re not ready to be commander-in-chief in my view,” Sen. Graham told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

[RELATED: Ron Paul on ‘What Should Be Done’ About Paris Terror Attacks]

Tapper asked Graham whether he believes that France should activate the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article 5 provision which would draw France’s NATO allies, including the U.S., into a formal, declared war against ISIS.

“They should. The world should be at war with ISIL,” replied Graham.

NATO’s Article 5 provision has previously been invoked only one time — following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York City.

“There is a 9/11 coming, and it is coming from Syria if we don’t disrupt their operation inside of Syria,” said Graham.

Sen. Graham called for the U.S. to declare a no-fly zone over Syria, where Russia is currently carrying out air strikes against ISIS. He also suggested that the U.S. should contribute 10,000 troops to a regional coalition to fight in the conflict.

[RELATED: Russian-Backed Syrian Army Defeats ISIS at Aleppo]

“We would take back land held by ISIL and hold it until Syria repairs itself,” said Graham, advocating for a post-war U.S. occupation of portions of Iraq and Syria.

“If we don’t do these things soon, what you’ve seen in Paris is coming to America,” Graham claimed.

Earlier this year, Ben Swann released a Truth in Media video exposing how U.S. foreign policy led to the rise of ISIS. Watch it in the below-embedded video player.

https://youtu.be/o6kdi1UXxhY

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