{"id":53554,"date":"2016-03-02T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wa_po_trump_owns_super_tuesday_but_cruz_and_rubio_see_glimmers_of_hope\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:00:36","slug":"wa_po_trump_owns_super_tuesday_but_cruz_and_rubio_see_glimmers_of_hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53554","title":{"rendered":"(Wa Po) Trump owns Super Tuesday, but Cruz and Rubio see glimmers of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump rode a powerful tide of voter fury to victories across the country on Tuesday, ending the campaign season\u2019s most momentous day of balloting as the unrivaled favorite for the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire mogul\u2019s Super Tuesday rout extended from New England to the Deep South, but he resoundingly lost the night\u2019s crown jewel, Texas, to home-state Sen. Ted Cruz, who also defeated Trump in Alaska and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s results exposed some vulnerabilities for Trump: He lost late\u00c2\u00ad-deciding voters in many states by wide margins to rival Marco Rubio, a sign that the senator from Florida may have had some impact with his withering assault on Trump\u2019s character. Ohio Gov. John Kasich also came close to beating Trump in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-owns-super-tuesday-but-cruz-and-rubio-see-glimmers-of-hope\/2016\/03\/01\/694310fc-dfb1-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump rode a powerful tide of voter fury to victories across the country on Tuesday, ending the campaign season\u2019s most momentous day of balloting as the unrivaled favorite for the Republican presidential nomination. The billionaire mogul\u2019s Super Tuesday rout<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53554\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,168,616,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}