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Clinton, Trump win big in race for White House

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Described as the biggest day in the race for presidential nomination, Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his Democrat counterpart Hillary Clinton both won big in most states as the pair moved closer to winning their parties’ nominations.
Looking ahead of the November 8th presidential elections both Clinton and Trump each won at least seven of 11 state races distancing themselves from party rivals in the on-going party nomination race.
Ted Cruz, a conservative senator, won his home state of Texas and Oklahoma as he sought to emerge as Trump’s main rival.
 
 
Clinton’s only opponent, Bernie Sanders, also won Oklahoma, as well as his home state of Vermont, Colorado and Minnesota.
Cruz desperately needed the Texas win in order to stay in the race, and was likely to keep campaigning as the only Republican who has been able to defeat Trump in any primary contest.
Still, Trump’s wins in the South were a blow to Cruz, who once saw the region as his opportunity to stake a claim to the nomination.
Instead, he has watched Trump, a brash New York real estate mogul, display surprising strength with the region’s evangelical Christians and social conservatives.

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