Up to washington. Tonight the battle lines get drawn all over again. From nbc news, decision 2016 super tuesday. Heres lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the pacific time zone. Were live. The polls closed in all super tuesday states. Im joined in election head quarrels by my colleagues Savannah Guthrie and chuck todd. The results starting with the gop race and the biggest prize tonight at the state of texas, that goes to ted cruz. We project ted cruz is the winner in texas tonight. In the oklahoma primary, another one for ted cruz. His second win of the night. In minnesota marco rubio, this is his one and only win so far in this campaign season. An important one for marco rubio. And the vermont primary, donald trump is the winner tonight. And a lot of states lined up trumps way. In fact, seven in all. There you see them on the screen. And chuck todd is here right now. Chuck, talk about the republican race that weve seen it play out tonight. Thats the big story of the night is donald trump rolling along. Ted cruz doing what he had to do to make a compelling case that he stays in this race. Marco rubio is probably the big loser of the night. He got his first win, desperately needed that. Boy, if he could have added a virginia where early in the night it looked like he could do that. Let me put up the delegate board. This shows you the night here. Donald trump has a 100delegate lead and its only likely to grow after tonight. Cruz is a solid second. Rubio trailing cruz by almost as much as cruz trails trump. So this is what were staring at tonight. The questions going to be can the republican establishment, which is doing everything it can to stop trump, can they rally around either cruz or rubio in order to try to do this . I dont think they can. Were going to talk more about that in a minute. Lets walk you through the democratic results for the night. Lets start off with Bernie Sanders. He wins in colorado tonight over Hillary Clinton. Also a win in oklahoma, all four wins tonight for Bernie Sanders. The Texas Democratic primary goes to Hillary Clinton. A big prize of the night. And Hillary Clinton scoring seven wins on the night. A very good night. Her southern Strategy Holding firm for a very big night for the Clinton Campaign. Savannah guthrie, your thoughts on what weve seen in this democratic race. Hillary clinton did what she had to do. She did have her southern firewall, it held strong. She won huge margins of victory with africanamerican voters which really poses a question to Bernie Sanders, whats your path Going Forward . You have to be able to expand beyond this progressive white liberal base. And that is not something that he was able to do tonight. There were really just two states that were really contested between them and they split them. So Hillary Clinton takes massachusetts, Bernie Sanders takes oklahoma. He takes his home state of vermont. If you do the numbers, if chuck would have put up his delegate count and you know hes dying to do that, it would be quite alarming for Bernie Sanders because its starting to look like an insurmountable lead. You do have that. I threw it up there now on savannahs cue. She asked, you shall receive, savannah. 600 delegates, thats a 31 21, that includes superdelegates at this point. She netted 200 hell gates the hard way and its because of just her sweep in the south. But hes still got money and he still has passion. But to what end . And i think that thats going to be what does he keep going after Hillary Clinton or does he start thinking, im going to be the progressive leader of the party and the progressive check on Hillary Clinton but im no longer going to attack her, instead ill attack trump. Should at some point will need his folks. Thats right and i think shes going to have to do it via running mate. Not to be sanders will be the running mate but a progressive nod to his people. Donald trump, wins rather than the usual victory speech, he spoke with reporters, hear some of what he had to say. This has been an amazing evening. Already weve won five major states. And it looks like we could win six or seven or eight or nine. Its really been great. I just want to say that this was an exciting evening. Its so great to be in florida. Its so great to be with friends and the press and the media. Our nation is in serious trouble. Were being killed on trade. Absolutely destroyed. China is just taking advantage of us. I have nothing against china, i have Great Respect for china. But their leaders are too smart for our leaders, our leaders dont have a clue. And the trade deficits at 400 billion and 500 billion are too much. No country can sustain that kind of trade deficit. It wont be that way for long. We have the greatest Business Leaders in the world on my team already. And believe me, were going to redo those trade deals and its going to be a thing of beauty. You look at countries like mexico where theyre killing us on the border. Absolutely destroying us on the border. Theyre destroying us in terms of economic development. Companies like carrier air conditioner just moving into mexico. Ford moving into mexico. That businenabisco closing up s chicago and moving into mexico. We have to stop it, i know how to stop it. Were going to create jobs. Were going to create jobs like youve never seen. Were going to lower taxes substantially for the middle class. The middle class has been forgotten in our country. It really helped and really probably was the predominant factor in making our country into a country that we all love so much and were all so proud of. But weve forgotten the middle class. Were going to lower taxes. We have tremendous power over everybody because we are really the source. We have great, great power. The problem is we have politicians that truly, truly, truly dont know what theyre doing. So were going to work very, very hard. Im so honored by this even frrg you would have told me on june 16th when i was with my wife melania and we came down the straighter in trump tower and it looked literally literally like this. You have a lot of cameras here tonight. It looked literally like the academy awards. I never saw so many cameras in my life. It takes courage to run, i tell you what. It takes a lot of courage to run for president. When you look at all of the problems our country has, you look at our military, which is really being depleted, rapidly depleted, were going to make our military bigger and better and stronger than ever before and nobody, nobody, nobodys going to mess with us, folks. Nobody. Donald trump speaking a bit earlier in florida after a good night for him. Governor Chris Christie of new jersey over his shoulder, who of course recently threw his support behind the Trump Campaign. Nbcs katy tur has been with the Trump Campaign all day. She joins from us palm beach, florida. Give us your observations on the night, katy. Reporter hey, there. The Trump Campaign is feeling really confident and theyre looking forward to the next states that vote. Thats why you saw him in florida tonight. He was in ohio this morning and kentucky this afternoon. Ohio and florida vote on march 15th. The second super tuesday. And theyre hoping they can potentially lock this nomination up as soon as the 15th. The calendar is certainly on their side for that. Also looking ahead to the general election. Thats why you saw him almost immediately attack Hillary Clinton tonight, vowing that he will go after her hard every single day if he gets the nomination and goes up against her. Especially when it comes to her email scandal. Hes claiming that he doesnt even think that shes eligible to run for president. Now the democrats are pointing out and the establishment is certainly worried that he wont be able to bring a lot of new voters into the polls. Hispanic voters, voters that they needed in 2012. The democrats are happy to see that but the establishment is certainly concerned about that. The Trump Campaign, and certain other gop insiders, will point out this fact there is record turnout in all of the gop primary states so far except for vermont. Theyre pointing to those new voters, those disenfranchised voters, older white voters who are turning out in record numbers to vote for donald trump. They believe that will offset potentially some of the damage that has been done with minority voters, hispanic voters. That being said, trump is adamant that he will be able to woo those voters back. Whether he can do that given all of the controversies, the muslim ban, the talk about the wall and deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants and calling some mexicans rapists and drug dealers during his campaign announcement, how he can overcome that, that remains to be seen. The candidate still remaining pretty extreme in a lot of his platforms. But potentially, and theres speculation about this, rumors that he could move much more toward the middle as this Campaign Goes on. Hes starting out from an extreme position as a negotiating position in order to move towards the middle down the line. And potentially get in more moderate voters out there. Katy tur, thanks. As we note its a big night for Hillary Clinton. She did lose a number of states to Bernie Sanders but she also swept the south, as many expected. Clinton watched the results come in from miami where she had this to say earlier to her supporters. America prospers when we all prosper. America is strong when were all strong. And we know weve got work to do. But that work that work is not to make America Great again. America never stopped being great. We need [ cheers and applause ] we have to make america whole. We have to fill in [ cheers and applause ] fill in whats been hollowed out. Usa, usa nbc ace Kristen Welker joins us live from miami. Whats the mood in the clinton camp after tonight . You look back a few weeks ago, they were licking their wounds coming ow new hampshire, now seven wins tonight. Reporter no doubt secretary clinton and her campaign fired up and feeling very confident. You heard that there in her speech tonight when she addressed her very energized supporters. This was a very strong night for her. She swept her southern firewall largely with a lot of support from africanamericans. Building on what we saw in south carolina. And so this is going to give her a lot of momentum heading into march and those states that vote at the end of march. She barely mentioned senator sanders in her speech tonight and instead set her sights firmly on donald trump. She didnt mention him by name but it was clear she was taking aim at him. You heard her there in that sound bite you just played, take aim at his make America Great again speech. She also tried to paint herself as the antitrump. Talked about the fact that she wants to build bridges instead of putting up walls. This is a preview of what we would see in a general election. Ive been talking to democratic strategists, Clinton Campaign officials who are signaling that if she takes on trump in the general election she will be pointing out all his controversial comments, offensive comments hes made toward minorities, his controversial policies by putting up walls. Still, one top strategist tells me she shouldnt get down into the mud with him, she should try to refrain from making personal attacks on donald trump unless he actually goes after her personally, which we anticipate he will do. Meanwhile shes got to get through this primary first and her Campaign Says at this point in time they dont have enough mathematically to put this race out of reach. Te think that might be possible on march 15th when florida votes. Thats why she held her watch party here tonight, or possibly a little bit later on in the month. But senator sanders vowing to stay in this race tonight. And hes got the money to do it. As you all have been discussing he raised 40 million this month alone. So this primary fight very much continues. All right, we want to go back to chuck todd. You have been drilling down on the exit polls. Lets go to the republican side. Its just simple formula for donald trump. Hes the change candidate. Let me show you. Basically thats two characteristics that are important to Republican Voters. The top two characteristics are either they want a president who will basically bring needed change versus a president who will share my values. Let me throw up the values numbers. This is where ted cruz was strong across the board in states. For the most part ted cruz won the voters that want a president ial candidate who shares my values. If you go up on screen. Trump finished third, fourth in some cases in one case fifth on this number in many states. Many Republican Voters not saying they care about this issue, not picking trump. Where trimp ran away with things is the candidate who brings needed change. He topped the entire field in every single state on this issue, closing in on nearly 50 . He topped the field on every except in the state of texas where cruz won texas, he was seen as the can date who would bring needed change. Even that, trump was a fairly close second on that. Trump is winning right now, bringing new people in as the change candidate. And it really is sort of a mirror image of barack obama eight years ago. Barack obama was the change candidate. Record turnouts. New people coming to the democratic fold. Coming into donald trump, change candidate, record turnout, new republicans coming in to vote. What kind of change are they saying . Change, a different kind of change, but thats whats powering trump. Thanks very much. 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They did cross the 20 threshold in states like georgia but failed to cross it in other states like alabama. And they werent able to pick up any delegates there. Very tough night for the Rubio Campaign. But they expect to stay in this as long as possible here if florida. This will be a crucial state for them. March 15th, the florida primary, marco rubios home state, they are laying it all on the line here. Now earlier tonight, rubio took the stage here in florida and he continued to hammer donald trump. Lets take a listen on what he has to say. It is not a coincidence that so many Young Americans my age and a few years older are all people who believe in the American Dream and in the conservative message. Because we, we are the children of the reagan revolution. We will not allow the party of lincoln and reagan to fall into the hands of a con artist. We will not allow the next president of the United States to be a socialist like Bernie Sanders. And we will not allow the next president of the United States to be someone under fbi investigation like Hillary Clinton. Reporter that is a line of attack that he has repeated for several days now. One point going into the gutter, attacking donald trump over his hair, over his spray tan. Hes backed off from that over the last day or so, instead really hitting that point hard about donald trump he says being a con artist and attacking him over his finances and Trump University and his foreign policy. Certainly, lester, this was a disappointing night for marco rubio in that he finished third place in many states. At one point it looked like he might not walk away with a single victory and that is what his critics pointed to, an 0 for 15 start to this campaign 15. He was able to pull off victory in minnesota. But now the question will be, will he be able to convince less donors and supporters to stick with him as ted cruz was able to pull off victories in texas and oklahoma . The Cruz Campaign saying that his campaign is the best positioned to take on donald trump Going Forward. Rubio again really laying it all on the line here in florida, his home state, which votes on march 15th. All right, gabe. You spoke of cruz. He of course won tonight in oklahoma and his home state of texas. And earlier he spoke to his supporters. This is what he had to say. Together, we will repeal obamacare. Abolish the irs. Pull back the epa regulators that are killing small businesses. Stop amnesty and secure the borders. And our Hallie Jackson joins us from cruz headquarters in stafford, texas. Reporter hi, there, lester. The lights are on, the parties over. For ted cruz he is hoping to move momentum into the coming states after winning texas and in his backyard in oklahoma. I had a chance to speak with the senator after he delivered that speech you played a little bit of. He talked about the need getting conservatives behind his candidacy saying, do not nominate a candidate who will drive the party off a cliff, a clear reference to donald trump. Cruz also not calling on marco rubio to drop out of this race but instead saying that candidates who do not have a clear path to the nomination to essentially clear the way so cruz and trump can go at it head to head. Obviously marco rubio still very much in the mix, planning to stick around for a while. For cruz this is now for him a chance to try to show that he is the one who can beat donald trump. He will point to those victories in two states. While marco rubio has won minnesota im told by the campaign to keep an eye out for cruz to make the argument he also performed well against donald trump in minnesota and other states too. The issue for him, he lost those right evangelicals and very conservatives in some states, according to youre exit polls, to donald trump. So hes got to make the case now that he can actually coalesce those conservatives, the gop base around him. One way his campaign may do so, look to oklahoma, lester. The first closed primary, meaning only registered republicans can vote, and the fact that ted cruz was successful there, look for the campaign to point to that and say, hey, this is what republicans want. This is what the base really wants. Donald trump is pulling independents and more liberal segments of the population. About the cruz they will argue is the true conservative who should be the nominee. All right, hallie, thank you. I want to bring in hugh hewitt, conservative host of the hugh hewitt show who joins from us his studios in irvine, california. Hugh, good evening, thanks for joining us. Good to be here, thanks for having me. Rube grow and cruz both think theyre still a path despite Donald Trumps victories tonight. How do you see the numbers breaking down in terms of delegates and a path to victory . Im always a little worried when i disagree with chuck todd, but i do. I think this was actually not that great of a night for donald trump. He had a very good night, a strong night. But on thursday morning of the last debate, hurricane donald was a category 5 that was going to make landfall and win 10, maybe 11 states tonight. Instead its a category 3, maybe a category 2, and theres a couple different narratives. Theres a narrative of ted cruzs comeback and what you just heard hallie say about oklahoma being a closed primary is important. Theres a narrative for marco rubio, who with this minnesota win caused 100 headline rewrites overnight. You see a delegate count for donald trump which is slightly more than half of what mitt romney had at the same point in the race four years ago. So i dont think anyones going to get to 1,237 delegates. Earlier tonight when chuck sat down with marco rubio, watching that during the radio show break from the salem city, senator rubio said, i dont know how donald trump gets to 1,237. And that is the question. I think were going to have an open convention. Hugh, i guess thats okay, we know marco rubio cant get there and neither can ted cruz get there. So the hope for them has got to be to deny trump. The next two weeks, explain to me how donald trump loses mississippi. Explain to me how donald trump loses michigan. Then we get to the big second super tuesday states on march 15th. There has to be some sort of nonaggression pact in ohio against kasich and rubio against florida if you want to continue to try to deny trump these delegates. Arent we looking at triple bank shot territory here, hugh . No, i dont think its that difficult. I do think michigan is going to be the key test in that run of contests. I think thats a wideopen state. And i do believe florida will assume gigantic importance for marco rubio. But i also do believe you hit on it. Deny trump category where cruz and rubio camps begin to talk to each other about how do you cooperate in this sophisticated strategy to have us both on the ticket. And i expect youll see donald trump pick up the phone and talk to john kasich about ohio and what happens after ohio. They all want to win. They all play to win. What youre saying is happening now. What youre saying is were brokering now. You just outlined there are no brokers. You outlined two, cruz and rubio, kasich and trump. Thats the way i kind of see the two teams working out, although john kasich might be a little prickly when approached with that idea. Nevertheless, thats not brokering, its an open convention. There are no brokers. They can only agree to cooperate. I also think youre going to see the nastiest two weeks of republican primary campaigning since 1976 and even the ford reagan campaigns going to appear to be genteel in comparison to these next two weeks. Hugh, its Savannah Guthrie. I want to say for the record i love it when you disagree with chuck todd. Were bare disagreeing, by the way. I know. By degrees here. How do republican the establishment or the conservatives, the nontrump factor, how do those republicans say to the voters who turned out in record numbers tonight, you know what, would ewere going t whats right, well take care of it. Youre essentially thwarting the will of the people and this organic movement the republicans may not like it, but it is real. Well, 36 nationally of the votes cast tonight went to donald trump. That is indeed significant. And he is the leader and hes the leader by a lot. But this is a process that counts every vote along the way. And i think what will disenfranchise republicans is being told that its over at any stop along the way. I would point out that marco rubio did best in minnesota, where there were very few late voters. Very few absentees. Where the kkk exchange with donald trump took its greatest toll on him. I consider that to be kind of a limpet mine attached to his candidacy. Far worse than mitt romneys 47 comments four years ago. When you factor that in, republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton are going to be listening closely to the arguments over the next two weeks, made in abundance by super pacs that are hostile to donald trump, about the fact that he cannot beat Hillary Clinton. And that his negatives are so high. Will that persuade the donald trump fan base and their supporters are extravagantly passionate, sometimes over the top. Donald trump makes unforced errors. Tonight he basically threatened paul ryan. He said, i dont know him, i dont know if im get along with him, if i dont its going to be bad news for him. I step back and i said, donald trump, come on, stay on game to bring the party together. He said hes a great unifier, but that was a brick thrown at probably the most universally admired republican in the party, speaker ryan. In two weeks if its over or well know for sure i was right. Ive been saying open convention for a year and chuck owes me dinner if im right. I want that open convention. Plus its in your home state so it would be a lot more fun for you as well. Great having you on, thanks for spending time. More with ow super tuesday maybe are may be reshaping this race. The future belongs to the fast. And to help you accelerate, weve created a new company. One totally focused on whats next for your business. The True Partnership where people,technology and ideas push everyone forward. Accelerating innovation. Accelerating transformation. Accelerating next. 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That was savannahs point, the will of the people. North, south, east, west. If you think the party is ruptured now with this fight were having . Imagine trying to take the nomination from donald trump at our convention when were all in one room. Youve never seen so much blood. 11 republican races tonight, donald trump so far has won 7. The guy went 7 of 11 so far. Who knows what will happen in alaska. And has won three previously. He is the story. Hes the frontrunner. Just think about where we are. Sorry to interrupt. But youre talking about aspects of the Republican Party actually trying to figure out how to bring down the person who would otherwise, in any other cycle, be the prohibitive frontrunner, perhaps even novembers nominee. Ill be devils advocate. Number one, hes short a delegate. Number two, he hasnt been in a one on one. Theres no sign hes going to be because anybodys getting out. This is why i think this was a better result for donald trump tonight than winning 10 of 11. Because it kept everybody in and if everybodys in, 35 or 40 is a winning number. By the way, we have a bunch of contests in between now and march 15th. I know we have a map of all the remaining march states. Before march 15th we have a kansas, nebraska, michigan, mississippi. These are all the remaining march states. I look at those states. Louisiana, mississippi. Trump will be favored in one. Maybe cruz can do pretty well there. Arizona. Thats a trumplandia. Kansas. You have missouri. Thats going to be trump. Illinois. Treasures favored. Michigan, too many people are trying to win michigan, case and i can rubio, which will split the vote. I look at that map and i think trumps going to win twothirds of those states. Were here because of the crowded field. We will stay here because the field remains crowded. And because the system was put in such a way that you get to a result no one ever anticipating strength in the establishment frontrunner which trump is not. Well probably saddled with it at one point. Sounded like a great idea four years ago the only question i have is can you get what hes talking about here . Will cruz and kasich, will they have a nonaggression pact . Rubio, youre on your own in florida and we wont attack you. Kasich, youre on your own in ohio. Is there going to be this sort of nonaggression pact all in the name of denying Trump Delegates . Primary campaigns and nonaggression pacts dont belong in the same sentence. I think if you had any interest in that they wouldnt all still be in. Theres zero evidence that theyre able to get together and unify around any common theme. Other than stop trump. Thats why theyre all wanting to say in. I talk to Senior Republicans today who tried to bring them together. Its not happening. And if you talk to these campaigns, yeah, theyll talk about trump and this is our strategy. But man, they keep falling back to cruz people against rubio and rubio people against cruz. Thats what animates them. The problem is theres not enough people that respect cruz, theres not enough people that respect rubio, theres not enough people that respect kasich in this group. They all think, im better than that guy. And im the one who should be the antitrump, im the one who should benefit right, right. Me, not you. How does clinton take advantage of this bout ovwithou overstoking the flames if you can overstoke flames . Clintons job is to, assuming well, shes way ahead. So if we assume she gets the nomination, her job is to start pivoting toward a general Election Campaign, start laying out her themes, and right now shes got too think that perhaps donald trump is going to be her opponent and to the extent she can take shots at him, show him as the alternative, show whats wrong with his whole approach to government, his whole approach to running for president. How all thats wrong. She can begin to do damage. 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Bernie sanders promising his supporters he will fight on in this battle against Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination. Nbcs casey hunt has been with the Sanders Campaign tonight and joins us now from vermont. Shes been sampling some of the mood there. Casey . Reporter lester, good evening. This of course is a night that is tough for Bernie Sanders. They knew that it was going to be tough. Especially across the south. But they hung in there in a way that ultimately has made them feel like this narrative is still one that can be turned their way, at least somewhat. They were particularly excited to see those returns in oklahoma where he won and they were watching massachusetts really closely right up there until the end. And of course you heard Bernie Sanders there vowing to continue this all the way up to the convention in philadelphia. This is a candidate who gets very personally frustrated when people write him off, kind of write him out of the narrative. Its its a campaign thats already achieved far more than anyone really expected that it would. But that said, theres already a lot of discussion about how this delegate math is going to get insurmountable to him quickly. Theyre hoping to do well in states like ior and illinois but its going to be a tough road forward. Chuck, youve been looking at the exit poll numbers. Its not just a matter of states won or loss, its the breakdown of the voters. It should be alarming for his campaign. It is, especially when you think about the africanamerican vote. This is among the most important parts of the democratic coalition. And look at these numbers. I want to put them up here on the board when we have the exit poll numbers from all these southern states. Hillary clinton won them by 93 of the africanamerican vote in alabama. Over 90 in arkansas. 85 in georgia. The one place where she did lose to sanders in oklahoma she got 71 of the africanamerican vote but thats not a large portion of that electorate. 83 in texas. 89, 84. These are numbers this is unsustainable for sanders. And yes, most now there arent many states left with large proportions of minority votes, perhaps. But i look at whats coming up. Where is he going to make his mark . Hes going to have to beat her in a state that shocks us. Is it michigan . No. Is it florida . I dont see it. I think hes going to try to make a play for ohio. Thats what hes got to do. His strategy tonight was to survive and get to the convention. Not to try to win. And thats what i didnt get and the fact that he made no improvement with the africanamerican vote at all Going Forward i think tells you where this nomination is heading. All right, chuck, thanks. When we come back we look beyond tonight to november and the general election. 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Joining us, the former governor of michigan Jennifer Grant holm, a Hillary Clinton surrogate and republican strategist, nbc news political analyst ben ginsburg. Unofficially does the general Election Campaign start tonight . No, it does not. He performed respectably tonight, shes going to he meaning Bernie Sanders . He meaning Bernie Sanders, obviously. Theyre going to go all the way. I think in the same way that the republicans have probably a cataclysmic moment on the 15th i think the democrat dozen as well. Theres a lot of key states between now and then. Were not done yet but it was a good night for Hillary Clinton for sure. Can she get some of those sanders supporters . Especially those young people who energize, will come out to vote . Its a great question and she has to and she wants to and she will work her tail off to get those young people excited about her and part of that means that shes going to reach out to Bernie Sanders when the time is right, assuming they get there. And hes going to be a part of bringing them in. As well as some of the other players in the Democratic Party like Elizabeth Warren and others who may not have taken a position yet. Lets have some fun here with ted ginsburg. You are an election lawyer expert, bush v. Gore is probably the most famous thing youve worked on. Mitt romneys campaign lawyer, you oversaw the delegate Selection Process in 2012. You have helped write these rules that the rnc at least you helped understand these rules at the rnc and he speaks latin. And he speaks latin, ergo, you can explain this. Be careful. I guess the point is, hughhewitt is claiming there is a way to a contested convention. Explain how this would happen. The way that it happens is over the next couple of weeks, donald trump does not have a clear majority, clear majority path, to get there. So hes ahead by 100, 150 votes going into the convention. The work that has to be done before then is to go out to the state conventions and to figure out who the delegates are. Because candidates in 73 of the delegates at the convention do not have a say in who they are. So it is possible for a movement to go out, elect delegates to the convention, and those delegates have to vote for the candidate on the first ballot. They dont have to vote for him on rules issues, credentials issues, Vice President ial nomination, naming the permanent chair oh my god. Whats the percentage exactly. Is it a total fantasy . Is it a 10 chance, 20 chance . Whats the reality here . I think in reality its about a 5 chance. Youve still got three candidates who are earning some degree of delegates. So it is not a mathematical certainty that donald trump goes into the convention he is the only guy that can get the delegates before the convention, thats a fact. It is a triple bank shot to get into the contested convention scenario. But just like theres never been a contested convention, there was never a president ial recount. Thats true. There you go. All sentences that start there has always been this or the way it always works should be banned from this campaign because the rule book, throw it on the fire. Its the black swan election, peter hart, i cant remember who said it. You know earlier, savannah, if that happened, if this sort of weirdo fantasy, establishment fantasy happens, that convention would go absolutely bonkers. Thanks very much. Back in a moment with final thoughts on this allimportant super tuesday race. It takes a lot of work. To run this business. Im on the move all day long. And sometimes, i just dont eat the way i should. So i drink boost to get the nutrition that im missing. Boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. All with a great taste. 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Doesnt it make you think of the best of humanity and Space Exploration and our better angels . Im glad hes safely on the ground. Hee has followed the news so he knows whats going on. A different perspective from orbiting the earth and were happy hes back safely. Final thoughts from the two of you. Still waiting for alaska where its too close to call. Heck win his third state tonight, cruz. Not a bad haul. We underrated ted cruz the last 72 hours. Hes turning out to have a good night. This was supposed to be a better night when he fantasized about this two months ago. Still a big night for donald trump. You could argue the best possible outcome for trump. Because everybody stays in. And as long as everybody stays in, donald trump keeps winning with 35 , 40 . The next two weeks the narratives going to be about republican establishment wringing their hands, what do we do, how do we stop trump . I have to say theres an equal and opposite reaction every time they do that. It only seems to make trump stronger. It only makes his voters more resolu resolute. He has uncanny ability to seize the news cycle. Its record turnout, its new voters. This is again the last candidate to do this was barack obama. Record turnout and new voters. You cant a political party, its leadership may be absolutely thinking theyre going over a cliff but youre not going to be able to deny what theyre doing. You hear about contested elections and that sort of thing. You made an interesting point these votes are real. The votes for trump are real. To chucks point he is widening the tent of the Republican Party, which was an aspiration after 2012, they didnt imagine it would happen like this. They didnt want to widen it this way. Chuck todd, Savannah Guthrie, a pleasure to be with you. Well have more in about an hour . Tomorrow morning on the today show and at nbcnews. Com. Im lester holt at nbc news in new york, thanks for watching. Right now at 11 super tud comes toclose. So wh big wins for clinton and trump. Everyone else . Raj 2shot and im jessica aguirre. Thai. Jess vo cg tonight, hillarylinton wins big alabama, arkansas, her