NEW YORK (PNN) - March 1, 2016 - Donald Trump supercharged his hostile takeover of the Republican Party on Super Tuesday, scoring big wins in at least seven states as he threatened to break away from his GOP rivals in the delegate chase.
Ted Cruz kept hold of his home state of Texas and won neighboring Oklahoma as well as Alaska. Marco Rubio saved his campaign from a dispiriting disaster, as he carried Minnesota’s caucuses for his first win on an otherwise brutal night.
But the story of the day - and of 2016 - was Trump, as the Manhattan mogul sidestepped charges of racism after he failed to immediately denounce the Ku Klux Klan in a television interview over the weekend. He steamrolled across the country, winning states as diverse and distant as Alabama, Virginia and Massachusetts.