Republican Bayou/Cauci Saturday election results thread (first results @3pm ET?)

[Ljube]

So when Trump makes the Hispanic community solid D voters like the AA vote Ljube what are you going to do?

Max out whites. Like in the south.

[Ljube]

National popular vote so far, across all primaries and caucuses to date:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R

Trump 34%
Cruz 29%
Rubio 21%
Kasich 7%
Carson 6%
Bush 2%

Sure is a powerful popular vote mandate for Trump from the Republican electorate, no?

Does anybody else have a better mandate?

[Ljube]

National popular vote so far, across all primaries and caucuses to date:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R

Trump 34%
Cruz 29%
Rubio 21%
Kasich 7%
Carson 6%
Bush 2%

Sure is a powerful popular vote mandate for Trump from the Republican electorate, no?

Does anybody else have a better mandate?

No, none of them do.  This is not an especially popular group of candidates among their own party, by the standards of recent presidential nomination battles:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republican-voters-kind-of-hate-all-their-choices/

But if you listen to the commentary on CNN, you might think that Trump is this overwhelming consensus candidate within the party or something.  "Oh, look.  He's winning all these states!  The voters love him!"

Yeah. Well, you know what. He should be. Otherwise the party is losing for sure. Down ballot races won't be spared.