Transcripts For KWWL NBC News Special Super Tuesday 20160302

KWWL NBC News Special Super Tuesday March 2, 2016

We want to get straight to the results, starting with the gop race and the biggest prize tonight, the state of texas. On the republican side, ted cruz wins in his home state. Nbc news projects he will win texas. In oklahoma tonight, cruz also the projected winner. In georgia, donald trump is the projected winner. Also in the trump column is virginia tonight, a win for trump there. And massachusetts, donald trump also the projected winner. Lets move over now to the democratics, lets go to chuck todd before i move on to the democratic side about what weve seen here right now. Wins. Especially texas. Does that change the dynamics of the republican race . I think it does. Definitively say. Trump, a very bad night for marco rubio, and a survivor night for ted cruz. He had to win his home state. Him. One of the few primary states vote. The big story is marco rubio got his one on one opportunity with trump over the last 72 hours. And it failed miserably. Were going to get to the democratic proprojections. Donald trump is speaking at a News Conference in florida. Say. All talk, no action. You have to win something. He hasnt won anything. And he actually hasnt come very close. So well see what happens. Yes, go ahead. Go ahead. Were going to monitor that News Conference, lets take you through the democratic results. And well start again in the state of texas where nbc news projects Hillary Clinton wins tonight in texas. In virginia, the democratic primary there, another one for in georgia, clinton and her southern Firewall Holding together, she wins in georgia as well. In vermont, Bernie Sanders home state, he is property jekted edprojected winner, also oklahoma, Bernie Sanders the projected winner. Aerowe are going to go to Savannah Guthrie to understand whats happening in that race. Also i mention the southern firewall is holding together. Bernie sanders, two important wins. How much does this make his path to the nomination difficult . Its tough because he has this great strength in the demographic roots that are a part of Democratic Party going forward. Already weve heard from her spokes american tonight saying how can you try to seek the nomination of the Democratic Party by all but ignoring the diverse states, which Bernie Sanders did. He didnt compete in the southern states, but look, he won oklahoma. That is where he felt like he might have a chance. He won. Obviously in his home state of vermont. The nomination. He will continue to try to accumulate dell galtsegatesdelegates. Side. Theres something called super delegates. Candidate. Most of them are going for Hillary Clinton. And that makes that potentially an insurmountable lead. But he has a lot of donations, a lot of money in the bank and continues to contest. He has an ability to raise money that Hillary Clinton is probably envious of. He raised like 5 million in one day this week. And a lot of them are small donations which means we can go back again and again and again money. Weve heard Hillary Clinton begin to pivot her remarks toward donald trump now as not the presumed democratic nominee, but beginning to act like that. Lets go back to the trump News Conference right now and listen to more of what he has to say. I dont know that shes going to be allowed to one. What she did is a criminal act. I would be very, very surprised, but if shes allowed to run, honestly, itll be a sad day for this country because what she did was wrong. And what she did let me just tell you, what she did was wrong. Price. Okay, one or two more questions. Go ahead, jeremy. Where, where, where . I didnt say that. Ill negotiate. If the walls going to be 50 feet, ill take two feet off the wall. You didnt listen, jeremy. In the country . Not. We have a country or we dont. We have a country or we dont. We have borders or we dont have borders. And at this moment, the answer is absolutely not. Okay, how about one or two more questions, david, go ahead. Make it a nice question, david, please. Some people inside the Republican National committee are monkey wrenching with the delegates trying to clear you a way . I thinkdown okay, go ahead. Well look, after i lot of respect for the group. And i like the rnc. And i dont know that ive been treated fairly or not. I really dont know. I cant tell you that, but i can tell you that i do respect them number of people. Exactly where we were before we started speaking. I was amazed at the numbers. Energy. The democrats dont. They dont have any energy. Their numbers are down. Roof. And people are making the statements theyve never seen in modern times, a party that was so energized. I think if somebody is doing as well as im doing, and im not just speaking for myself. Whether its me or anybody else. But if im going to win five, ive already won five, but maybe it could be six, seven, eight, nine, it could be nine, i could win nine states tonight. If im going to win all of these states with tremendous numbers, and if im going to come in the worst is second. In the two or three that i might not win, i think, you know, were a democracy. I think its awfully hard to say thats not the person we want to lead the party. Its very hard. But i really think its a great question, david. Because i really think that one of the biggest things that and everybody is the Republican Party has become more dynamic, its become more diverse, were taking from the democrats, from the independents. We have a lot more people. We have a lot more people. I mean, take a look at south carolina, look at the numbers. Look at the numbers from four years ago. When nobody even wanted to waste their time and vote. And then you look i was there. And you had lines that went a mile long. And it was virtually more than doubled. So we have a very, very dynamic donald trump not going the usual route of a Victory Party tonight, but rather a News Conference with governor Chris Christie looking on behind him. You heard him going after Hillary Clinton a moment ago. We talked about the fact that clinton is beginning to pivot some of her attacks towards clinton. Heres some of what she said earlier this evening. America prospers when we all prosper. America is strong when were all 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 [ applause ] we have to make america whole. We have to fill in fill in whats been hollowed out [ chanting usa ] lets go to nbcs andrea mitchell, she joins us live from miami. Andrea, weve heard her make that remark a couple of times over the last few days. At the beginning of the, her campaign against donald trump if it becomes that . Reporter absolutely. She is pivoting towards donald trump, assuming that he is going to be the republican nominee. And assuming frankly that she will nail down this nomination. Perhaps later in march, although tonight after his big win in vermont, his home state, and then later he won oklahoma that he will go on all the way to june and in the convention. He has the money to do that. But as you can hear them breaking down this watch party, the Victory Party here, Hillary Clinton certainly big over the firewall, the southern firewall with her large margins of African Americans states with majority African American votes, her large minority votes. She won across the board and in virginia, sle won the white vote as well. She didnt do that well in oklahoma, which he won because fewer minority. According to her spokesman, you cant win the nomination if you cant win in more diverse states. Bernie sanders top spokesman and strategist had to respond and well see who wins by the end of june and who has the nomination. The campaigns going at each other. Tonight. Back to the republican side, ted cruz who won in texas and oklahoma is talking right now. Lets join his speech in progress. This is a man who loves his wife and loves his children, and loves our constitution, and loves our country, and did long before he was obviously, obviously ted cruz not quite at the podium. We expect to hear from him momentarily. Maybe this is part of the introduction. Savannah, while we wait, lets go back and listening to Hillary Clinton, eight years ago, we were talking about wow, we may see the first African American president. After tonight, will people begin to talk in terms of wow, we might see the first female president . I dont know. It doesnt seem to have resinated that much. You know, eight years ago, after she lost the nomination to barack obama, there was some hand wringing in clintons quarters about maybe we should have played that out more. Played that female card. Shes dabbled with it. Its been overtaken by events. I think what people are really going to be talk abouting about is wow, we have a former reality star, megabillionaire, donald trump, who is redefining the Republican Party for a generation. This is where they Start Talking about the wigs and how the Republican Party is fundamentally changing. And were seeing were witnessing this tonight. This is history. Let me support what donald trump said tonight about turnout. Record turnout by 300,000 of alltime in virginia. 300,000 more people voted tonight, nearly a million people, than anybody had ever voted in a virginia Republican Party. Were on track for a record turnout in georgia and oklahoma. On track for a record turnout in tennessee. It is not because of ted cruz or marco rubio, it is because of donald trump. He is bringing in the different voters. And it is, you know, we looked at it, he is winning tonight because he is the candidate that needed change. I think we have boards up to here to show folks. He dominated in alabama, tennessee, georgia, every state that he won. He got well over 50 among voters who said i need to bring needed change. Georgia, 51, he is the candidate of change inside the Republican Party. Not ted cruz, not marco rubio. We are going to take a break. You mentioned marco rubio, were going to speak to him live in just a moment. Well ask him what he sees is his path forward after tonights losses. Well be right back. President hey, need fast heartburn relief . Try cool mint zantac. It releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat. Zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. Nexium can take 24 hours. Try cool mint zantac. No pill relieves heartburn faster. 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Was the right move for us. Welcome back to our super tuesday coverage, we are joined now live from miami by senator marco rubio. Senator, good evening, nice to have you with us tonight. Good evening. So you have far have not wins disheartened . No, of course not. First of all, lets understand where we are in this campaign. State. I mean these states are awarding delegates on the percentage of votes you get. Were going to have significant number of delegates out of every state of tonight. In the state of virginia, where we were trailing by 15 points, we basically have as many delegates at donald trump. Smn still out, were doing well tobacco. So usually in a traditional race, when you have someone like donald trump in the lead in some of the states, you would have everybody coming back together and saying all right, its time for everyone to rally around for trump. Whats happening is the opposite. On the contrary, people are saying you have to fight on and i asked people to join us at marcorubio. Com. We cannot allow the Republican Party to be led by someone who refuses for example to condemn the kkk as donald trump did. You went after donald trump hard this week. And a lot was schoolyard things, spray tans and the size of hands, do you think voters rejected that . Do you think that worked against you . No. First of all, donald trump has been insulting people for the last 12 months. Every now and then, everyone deserves to get a taste of their own medicine. Second, i would say look at every state tonight thats on the board. He will underperform every public poll that was taken, especially for example in virginia. Ahead of us by 15 points, no one expected that to be competitive. Weve only had five days now to explain to people what a con artist donald trump is. And youre seeing the impact across the country. I cant wait to make the case, well see what happens on saturday, again on monday theres voting going on in america. And then again, the following week on march 15th, where then you have to start winning states. And thats where we feel great. Tonight was supposed to be ted cruzs night. The night he swept all the southern states, the most conservative part of the country. He leads in texas, and a win in the neighboring state of oklahoma and he doesnt take all the delegates. Tonight, i never said we were going to win or close out this campaign on super tuesday. Ted cruz did. I can tell you our best states are yet to come, including home here in florida two weeks from tonight. Senator rubio, chuck todd here, mass is your challenge at this point. Has your Campaign Come to the assessment that theres only two outcomes here for you, either you dont catch donald trump and he becomes the nominee or you have to take this all the way to the convention. There does not seem to be a mathematical path for you to clinch the nomination before cleveland. Have you come to that conclusion . No, i dont believe that. I think especially once you get to the winner take all states, it gets friendlier for us, especially as the race narrows down. We would have won virginia and a couple other states as well. We feel good as we get into march 15th about that. The question is how does donald trump get to 1,237 delegates. Chuck, usually in the campaigns, you have a front runner and the party says lets rally around john mccain or mitt romney, thats not going to happen with donald trump. They know that the nomination of donald trump means the end of the modern conservative movement, and the end of the modern Republican Party, and a very devastating way. We cannot nominate someone in our party who in addition to being a con artist and sharing all these opinions with the democrats on planned parenthood, rally, and you name it, someone who this week repeatedly refused to condemn the clue klux clan, that means devastation in november. A vote for donald trump is a vote for Hillary Clinton in november. Its Savannah Guthrie in new york, ted cruz was just speaking and said to those who havent won any state, by which hes referring to you, i wish you the race and uniting to try to stop donald trump. Obviously, that is not your plan, but how do you argue that youre not just an agent of the nomination of donald trump, if this Party Continues to be divided with all of these candidates . Yeah. I understand teds spin on this. Heres my answer. Ted was supposed to clean up tonight. His entire campaign was built on winning iowa, south carolina, and sweeping the southern states, and tonight was a night he was going to claim victory. That didnt happen. Ted cruz basically won his home state where hes not going to get the majority of delegates or hes not going to get all the delegates and he won the neighboring state of oklahoma where hes going to share delegates, and thats it. Where does he win from here . Thats the question ted has to ask. He cant unify the Republican Party and he cant grow it. Im the only one in this race that consistently beats Hillary Clinton in every poll. Im the only one that has a chance to unite the Republican Party and the math only gets worse for ted cruz. Tonight was supposed to be the night, youve heard his campaign say that. They were going to sweep the got beat in every single one exc

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