Delegates going up on a Tuesday

The Nevada caucus was held on Feb. 23 and it came to no surprise that Donald Trump won by a large margin, nearly 46 percent of votes. Trump was predicted to win and with Jeb Bush withdrawing his candidacy, it is starting to look likely that Trump will win the Republican nomination for President.

Even as the Republicans move the debate to Sen. Ted Cruz’s home state of Texas for Super Tuesday, Trump is still the frontrunner. The voters that Trump has won over have been a developing group of much diversity, including the young, old, Hispanic, highly-educated and even the poorly-educated, whom he claimed to love. His backing even includes former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin.

It could be his solid stance on immigration that he continually claims that Mexico will fund this new border. It may seem odd that he won the evangelical vote, not only because Cruz was predicted to win it earlier this month, but because the Pope had made a bold statement claiming that the actions of Trump were not Christian and still, Trump managed pull through.

It was not since early February that Cruz won in Iowa, yet since then, he has lost momentum trailing with distant third-place finishes. Super Tuesday could present a make-or-break situation. One thing is for sure: if either he or Sen. Marco Rubio fail to win Jeb Bush’s supporters, Trump will only have to keep his supporters entertained, which he does well. Another reason Super Tuesday is such an important win is because there are 595 delegates to be won, which would make up almost half the delegates who need to win the republican nomination.

 Gun control is one issue that Trump has firmly set his foot down on, as he is backed by the National Rifle Association. This is the of the biggest differences between the two parties, as Hilary Clinton has taken the opposing stand, among many others. On the democratic side, it is a closer race as Bernie Sanders crusades against Super PACs, which Clinton and Trump both use. It could be Sanders’ stand that he is on the side of the working class that has won over the democrats’ Latino vote. Yet, his small campaign donors have made him look weak against his opponent, who is backed by Wall Street and special interest. Sanders has always been something of a grass-roots activist.  The Chicago Tribune even released a photograph of Sanders being arrested in 1962 during a civil rights protest. The importance here is that Clinton has the Black vote.

Clinton winning the Black vote is crucial for Super Tuesday, because many of the states involved with Super Tuesday are in the Southeast. However, the possibility of losing support for Clinton is in an ad that will be aired on and throughout Super Tuesday by the group Future 45. This group focuses on her involvement with Goldman Sachs and other big banks involved with the economic crash and how Clinton refused to make certain records public.

One thing we can be sure of is that history will be made come Tuesday.