Ted Cruz Wins Texas Republican Primary, Oklahoma Primary

Sen. Ted Cruz Now Positioning Himself as the Anti-Trump, Sen. Rubio Falters

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz speaks to the crowd during a Conservative Leadership Project presidential forum in Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday, January 15, 2016. (Photo: AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

Sen. Ted Cruz has won the Texas Republican primary, holding on to his home state against Donald Trump and positioning himself ahead of Sen. Marco Rubio. With 33% of precincts reporting, Sen. Cruz won 287,038 votes (39.2%) to 206,744 votes (28.2%) for Mr. Trump.

Sen. Cruz also won a surprise victory in the Oklahoma Republican primary with a slight lead over Mr. Trump. However, in reality, Mr. Trump romped Super Tuesday from Massachusetts to Virginia to Tennessee to Alabama to Georgia and likely beyond. Vermont is still closely contested with Gov. Kasich surprising competitive.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton easily won on the Texas Democratic primary and socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has won.

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Soft Pledged	Soft Unpledged	Soft Total	Hard Total
Cruz, Rafael Edward “Ted”	`302,818 39.51%`
Trump, Donald John, Sr.	`216,450 28.24%`
Rubio, Marco A.	`146,531 19.12%`
Kasich, John Richard	`35,022 4.57%`
Carson, Benjamin Solomon “Ben”, Sr.	`27,840 3.63%`
Bush, John Ellis “Jeb”	`17,544 2.29%`
Uncommitted	`10,497 1.37%`
Paul, Randal H. “Rand”	`2,081 0.27%`
Huckabee, Michael Dale “Mike”	`2,051 0.27%`
Gray, Elizabeth	`1,924 0.25%`
Christie, Christopher James “Chris”	`1,288 0.17%`
Fiorina, Carleton Sneed “Carly”	`1,042 0.14%`
Santorum, Richard John “Rick”	`664 0.09%`
Graham, Lindsey Olin	`597 0.08%`
(available)		`155 100.00%`		`155 100.00%`	`155 100.00%`
Total	`766,349 100.00%`	`155 100.00%`		`155 100.00%`	`155 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-Most Primary,
Polling hours 7:00a CST (1300 UTC) / 7:00a MST (1400 UTC) to 7:00p CST (0100 UTC) / 7:00p MST (0200 UTC). Only the area around El Paso is in MST, so the vast majority of polls have closed in TX by 7 PM CST.
Voter Eligibility: Open Primary

155 total delegates – 10 base at-large / 108 re: 36 congressional districts / 3 party / 34 bonus

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