a large number of delegates on the line for democrats and republicans today. >> can donald trump come one step closer to conquering the republican party? >> announcer: right now, it's an urgent new phase in the presidential campaign. >> we have come too far to stop now! >> announcer: both front-runners, stronger. one party in turmoil. >> i'm not a normal republican. >> if he's our nominee, it will split the republican party. >> announcer: voters in five more states are choosing sides. will they bring any clarity to the chaos on this super saturday. it's america's choice. tonight, in the republican race, donald trump triggering alarm among the gop establishment, after his super tuesday success tightened his grip on the nomination. >> they call it a phenomena.

you're a phenomena. we're all a phenomena. >> announcer: ted cruz adding to his win column urging the anti-trump movement to rally behind him. >> head-to-head, our campaign beats donald trump resoundingly. we must come together. >> announcer: marco rubio, fumed by his first victory, still vowing to fight trump to the finish. >> we will not allow the party of lincoln and reagan to fall into the hands of a con art i. >> announcer: in the democratic race tonight, hillary clinton fresh off a southern sweep, gaining ground on the path towards the nomination. >> instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers. >> announcer: bernie sanders charging forward with new wins to keep his revolution going. >> stand up to the billionaire class. tell them they can't have it all! >> announcer: now, it's time for voters to have their say, with the front-runners growing eager to take on each other. >> the rhetoric on the other side has never been lower.

>> hillary clinton cannot do the job. she shouldn't be allowed to run. >> announcer: america is choosing. the race is moving in new directions, and the super saturday showdown begins, right now. americans rights now across five states, they're headed to the polls. take a look at this. live pictures coming in from kentucky, where officials have more ballots on standby. they expect they're need these extra ballots because of the big, big republican turnout today. and these are pictures coming in from brian high school in omaha, nebraska. two gymnasiums backed with democrats ready to caucus right now. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in the cnn

election center. the field is narrowing. only six candidates. two democrats, four republicans. only six candidates left after dr. ben carson ended his quest for the republican nomination. the big question now, where do the votes go? and are there enough of them to swing the race? with 155 delegates at stake today, the four remaining republicans will all be looking to grab that support. for the democrats, there are 109 delegates at stake today. 2 of today's con tests are caucuses which could favor senator bernie sanders. we're standing by for the first votes, and our first chance to make projections, less than one hour from now from caucuses in kansas. then the first results out of kentucky, where republican caucuses are already under way. later tonight we'll bring you results from republican caucuses in maine, and democratic caucuses in nebraska. and both parties holding primaries today in louisiana. can donald trump be beat?

today we'll see if polls by the last republican nominee, miami romney claims tromp could doom the party in november. impact on conservative voters out there, if republicans want to stop trump. marco rubio and ted cruz need to win more states and they need to win a lot more delegates. trump has taken advantage of a fractured field. he's won ten of the first 15 contests so far. we have our cnn reporters spread out across the country. right now they're following the campaigns, they're watching the caucuses. our chris frates is in or land oh right now. we're standing by to hear directly from donald trump. chris, what is the latest over there? >> reporter: well, tell you, wolf, no surprise rear in the sunshine state on super saturday here. even though there's no voting going on. republicans looking ahead to this winner take all state on march 15th. lots of delegates. 99 at stake here, and donald trump throwing $2 million worth of advertising here, that's unusual for him, as he usually relies on free media.

marco rubio, the native son, the u.s. senator, getting a big endorsement from the orlando sentinel just last night. that's here in central florida, along that voter-rich i-4 corridor. that's huge for him. saying they has the knowledge and judgment to be the president, questioning both trump's thin policy proposals and questioning whether he has trouble telling the truth. despite all of that, donald trump is ill it doing very well here in florida. latest polls show him up 44%. marco rubio at 28%. so as donald trump continues to gather steam, though, we're seeing more and more of his rallies. a huge rally here today in central florida. those rallies are being disrupted by protestors. we're seeing a private security contractor starting to work with the trump campaign to limit those disruptions and get those protestors out up here quickly. we'll see what happens in just a few minutes when donald trump comes to the stage tonight, wolf. >> live coverage. see what he has to say. chris frates joining us from orlando. to miguel marquess in omaha,

nebraska. democrat s turning out in a big way to caucus. a see a big line. has it been like that for a while? >> reporter: enormous numbers, wolf. they opened up the doors an hour early and can't get them in. a democrat in south omaha, you have six more minutes to get in line. so many people out here they've brought out forms to register outside so they can get everybody in by the time this is supposed to start. it was supposed to start at 2:00 p.m. how many of you are new caucusgoers? wow. lots of hands. how many voting for bernie? how many for hillary? this is what we've seen all across the state. i want to take you inside and show you where all of this is going. the people are lining up here. they have to register to get into one of two locations here. this is one of 149 different locations across the state of nebraska, where democrats are caucusing. there are 93 counties here, and they have record turnout as far

as we can see. excuse me. a huge turnout across much of the state. this is where they actually are trying to get to now. this is where they register to check in here, and then they go to one of two different areas inside brian high school. home of the bears, by the way. they go into an auditorium here on the left. one legislative district, or they go into a gymnasium, where i'm going to take you now and line up according to whether they support bernie sanders or hillary clinton on one side or the other of the -- of the area. they expect it will take about two hours. these things have taken about two hours across the state and they expect this to take about two hours for democrats to figure which they support. at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight, they will start releasing all of the numbers. the whole numbers. you got 25 delegates up here in nebraska, and they won't be able to figure out exactly how they break down until later in the day. this is the gym.

democracy in action here. bernie supporters here on the left side of the gym. hillary supporters there on the right side of the gym. i can give you an idea how excited the people are here. you guys ready to caucus here? [ cheers ] and if you come down here -- these are the hillary -- hillary camp. [ cheers ] now, interestingly, they had pulled out just these bleachers on this side. they've now pulled out the bleachers on this side, because they expect so many people in this gym they will have to use both sides. they're expecting 1,200 total in this location and then they will probably blow through that. wolf? >> i see somebody strolled out behind you. an issue there, miguel. thank you. standing by in louisville, kentucky, at seneca high school. what's it like where you are?

>> reporter: hours here, even though this is a caucus, this is going to feel a bit more like a primary, wolf. i want you to look over here. seeing a crowd as they line up trying to find their voter trech vags. where they check in. you can see they have driver's licenses out. making sure that the registration is valid, and then they get a voter form. and then they fill them out and then this over here. see these cardboard boxes? this is where they drop those ballots, then they get those all-important stickers showing they did indeed vote. the turnout here is phenomenal, according to the woman you see right there. the caucus chair, and she says that what they've done so far is they've already run through a number of batches in the county room. and what they're doing now, as we kind of peek in over here. they have asked us to keep our distance, but we're going to take a look here. they are running through the third batch of vote count right now. all of that information, you see it's like a fax machine, wolf, that's being sucked in, each

ballot, one by one. all of that information then goes to the republican party headquarters here in kentucky. all of those results will be tabulated at around 7:00 p.m. eastern time. they expect to have those results, they'll instantly spit that out and this is what's happening around the state, but we are hearing from the republican party here, that energy is very, very high. a lot of people are voting. they're being driven here by anger against the republican party, but you would think that would automatically mean trump is leading in our location, in our informal polling it looks like a dead heat between the three top candidates, wolf. >> we've watch closely. over to dana bash, and dana and david, big turnouts in both states? >> it looks like it. in singular caucus state. nots sure if that's emblematic of the entire state, having said

that, i just gauot a text from someone in bernie sanders campaign, feel going about nebraska. the people tend to go out and vote in a kcaucus tend to be moe in line with who bernie sanders is getting traditionally. big picture, take a step back. this is a day where there are a lot of states voting. a lot of states caucuses. it doesn't have that big of an impact on delegates, but every delegates counts at this point. it is a delegate race. >> no doubt about that. momentum here still matters. it matters in terms of one of the things i'm like r looking for tonight and when i see people showing up at sites like that i wonder, especially the republican side, are we going to see more record turnout? at the end of the day. like we've seen across so many of these states and is donald trump the figure responsible poor for that? one of the things i want to see, this is the first voting day we've had since a sustained attack against donald trump, the

never trump movement. does it have any impact at the ballot box, or is this just the talk and strategy of some of his opponents right now, of mitt romney? that is the big picture thing i'm looking to see tonight. a state like kentucky we just saw that should be a state when you look at a demographically, a pretty good state for donald trump. >> absolutely. >> i'm looking to see if we see some change of the trajectory. is trump somehow not dominant anymore in the race? race, it's a delicate race, today is one of those days because of where we are in the story, he still needs to ratchet victories to continue to prove the point he's not taking on water from these attacks, the decision made to not go to cpac, a very large, traditionally very important meeting of conservative grass roots activists from all over the country. he decided not to go. he was supposed to be there and instead went to kansas where they are going out to the caucuses today. maybe this is a sign that he

realizes that he's got to keep this momentum going for the exact reason you just said. >> listen, i think a very wise decision on donald trump's part to skip cpac. it's clearly not his crowd. >> i was there this morning. it is not his crowd. >> he knows that. having tens of thousands of people in orlando, that is his crowd. he made a very smart move optically today. the stakes today, obviously, louisiana, obviously plays into donald trump's hand. i think kentucky. i would look at kansas and maine on the republican side, to see if something else is going to there. those are states that may not be tailor made for donald trump. we'll see if maybe a ted cruz can make a play there and on the sd democratic side both clinton and sanders campaigns, will tell you, sure they have, they've said it to me, a day they expect sanders perhaps to get some victories under his belt. >> tats exaexactly right. wolf, on the republican point david was making, donald trump's support has been rock solid

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take a look at this. live pictures from a rally in orlando, florida. donald trump getting ready to address that crowd. his send big rally speech of the day. live coverage coming up of what he has to say. we're watching all of the candidate on this day. right now we have a key race alert. we want to share this with you. the first votes coming in from the republican caucuses in kansas right now. very, very early. only a few votes have been counted, but ted cruz, look at this, he's ahead 45.2%. donald trump in second place with 30%. john kasich with 11.7%. marco rubio with 11%. but it's still very early. less than 1% of the vote in the republican presidential caucuses are now in. that's our first key race alert of this day. they're beginning to count the votes in kansas. i want to go to kentucky right now. cnn's brian todd is on the scene for us in bowling green,

kentucky, where they're getting ready to vote as well. brian, update us on what's going on. >> reporter: wolf, super saturday brought a super turnout here in bowling green. the conference center, people checking in here. we're not allowed to film past this point but we'll pivot. walk down the line and show you how enthusiastic these voters are. bringing kids today. everybody is jazzed about coming out for the republican caucus. the first-ever gop caucus in the state of kentucky and it's the doing of senator rand paul. he arranged for this caucus to be moved up to march 5th from the may date they had earlier, because constitutionally he's not allowed to be on the ballot twice in one day. running for re-election for the senate in may. that primary's in may. paid for this to be moved up to today. look at the difference it's made. a huge voter turnout here. much more than expected here at the nicely conference center. i got a chance to talk to rand

paul earlier when he wcame here to vote about how this is going. take a listen. >> it's exciting and i think a lot of people in some ways, we might get a better turnout because we're actually relevant. right in the middle of a race. the race is not yet decided. the only thing about kentucky is it hasn't been polled very much. i think it's very uncertain hoop going to win. >> reporter: now, i asked senator paul who he's voting for, supporting in the race. he would not tip his hand. he wouldn't say. i tried to get limb to narrow it down. one of the two senators one of the guys you're supporting today? he still wouldn't tip his hand, wolf. he is instrumental in this turnout and this date being so successful here in kentucky even though he dropped out of the race a month ago. yeah. very enthusiastic here. how are you guys liking this so far? >> how fast the line's going. >> reporter: only about ten minutes, they're telling us. >> people in bowling green, kentucky, are more organized than anyone else in the world. >> reporter: you're showing it here, sir. this is the story here, wolf.

dynamic crowd. polls close at 4:00 p.m. central time, 5:00 p.m. eastern. >> people are patient. love democracy in action. donald trump is speaking at that huge rally in orlando, florida. let's listen in. >> -- i said, yeah. so i did want to get the word out, folks. you know? i didn't want to go the rest of my life having everyone say i have small hands. i've haerpd of worse things but who needs it, right? i want to thank you all, really. i mean, it's amazing. this crowd, look at that. all the way up to the rafters. all the way up, unbelievable. unbelievable. unbelievable, and the fire marshal, we have thousands of people outside. we've lost about 10,000 people. they've had to leave, but we still have thousands of people, and i think because the police are so incredible, we love our police -- and your fire departments and everything, they're going to try and let another few hundred people come right up here.

i said, don't worry about it. we're not going to have any problems. okay? so we're going to fill it in, and the great. you know, the one i work on most when i go to a site are five marshals. my most important people, because they're the ones that let us pack -- you know, nobody has crowds like we do. nobody. you take a look today. here's a day. now in all fairness to you, right now i'm supposed to be at the cadillac world golf championships at trump national doral, and i'm here. i'm here. [ cheers ] and i just left rory -- actually, i just left kansas and hopefully we'll do well in kansas, and kentucky, and you know, i have is a list. look at this. new hampshire. we won. south carolina, we won. nevada -- nevada, we won, in a massive landslide. that was supposed to be for lyin' ted cruz. lyin' ted. he holds up the bible, and then he puts it down and he lies.

i don't like that. and you know what? that's why i'm winning virtually every category with the evangelicals, who i love. and you heard today paula white, who was fantastic and i appreciate paula's being here, but pastor paula white was so great, and you know, jerry falwell junior from liberty university was so great to me, and he doesn't endorse people. he doesn't do it, but he felt this was important, and remember this. every one of the candidates goes to liberty. they all go to liberty. they speak. when he endorsed me, that was a great, great thing. all right. so we won -- we won nevada big. we won georgia in a landslide. we won tennessee really big. we won alabama in a massive landslide. we won vermont, vermont was incredible. vermont -- everybody thought that would be marco. marco didn't even show up.

by the way, he doesn't show up to vote for the senate. he doesn't show up, so why the hell should re show up to vermont? right? yeah? we won virginia. we won arkansas. we won massachusetts. many polls have come out that i easily pete al qael beat hillarn and i want to tell you, you don't hear that on television. you watch these dishonest pundits, well, trump can't win the general election. we will beat harry so badly folks. we will beat her so badly. i used to listen to jeb bush before he flamed out, and they say, donald trump cannot beat hillary clinton, and i said, why can't you beat me? right? he got nothing. low energy. low energy. and his people are now on television fighting me saying, we have to stop donald trump.

he's not going to beat hillary clinton. they work for jeb bush, and i say, to my people, you know, i have these debaters, right? i say, why don't you just say he worked for jeb bush and they were terrible, but i see it all the time. we're going to beat hillary -- i'll tell you something. the one person that hillary doesn't want to run against, i will tell you this, is donald trump. that i can tell you. [ cheers and applause ] that i can tell you. and it's amazing. i watched it the other day where little marco is going, well, donald will not win -- i mean, this guy's got so many problems, i don't think he'll come close to winning hiss own state. how would you like to be this? i'm 21 points up -- i happen to love florida, in all fairness. truly, truly, my second home. i'm here all the time, as you know. all the time. i love this area, by the way, but i'm here all the time. i've done many, many jobs in miami, with related and with

george perez and with, you know, gil dezzer and michael and we've had great success and many of the buildings in miami were e have a lot of stuff, and it's been great, and as you know, doral, and in jupiter we did a big job, very, very successful. and in west palm beach with did a big, big job, very successful and the maralago club and many more. and tonight our news conference, hopefully a victory conference in west palm beach. in west paul beach. west palm beach. see, with all the places i could pick, i picked florida. i want to pick florida. so we all love florida. but i hear these people, and they talk about the general election. look, the general election's very important, but i'm the one that's going to beat her, and i will say this -- the one person that she does not want to run against is trump. you know, she got a dose -- i

didn't -- i haven't even -- folks, i'm beating her in many polls. i'm beating her in many polls and i haven't even started yet. i haven't started with her yet. only once. only once. four weeks ago, she said something about me being sexist. remember? and i'll tell you, the press treated me very unfairly. because right after she said that, i attacked her, and bill, and bill. we talked about the word. we came up with the word, a very true word, enabler. you know what enabler is? and we talked about bill. i said, you mean to tell me i'm bad but her husband's okay? maybe one of the worst in the history of politics. right? and i had to put up -- okay. this was a disaster for them. i guarantee you, they had one of the worst weekends of their life. this was -- this was not a friendly weekend that they had sitting together at home wherever they are at home, if

they were together. so here's the story. so here's the story. here's the story. we can't play games. our country's in deep trouble. we have to beat her. it looks like she's going to make it. bernie is gone. bernie's gone, regardless. bernie's -- bernie had his time. you know, he had has time in the sun and i watched -- i've seen this so often with politicians. they blow it. what happens, he had his time in the sun. he was doing great and then they asked him the question about e-mail as month and a half ago. right? he said, i'm tired of them discussing it. like, in other words, they shouldn't be discussing it, and i said, bye-bye bernie. you just blew the election, and i was right. but when i attacked hillary, six weeks ago, people don't realize this, and the press gave me zero, and i want credit. do you understand? you are the most dishonest human beings on earth. the most.

they are -- disgusting, dishonest human beings, and i'll tell you -- well, not all of them. actually, amazingly, because i'm no fan of the "new york times" i had a front page story on the "new york times," it was a in a nominal story. i can't believe it. [ chanting ] ah, get them out here. get them out! [ cheers ] we had an amazing -- amazing story today on the front page. i'm going to have to be nicer to the "new york times." you know? they give me all bad stuff, then i attack. today was really, amazing, because somebody said, in the story that there's been nothing like this happen with this movement in the united states for over 100 years.

can you imagine? over 100 years. and it's true. no matter where we go we're packed. we have the biggest audiences, the biggest crowds by far. i must tell you, bernie was second. a distant second, but bernie was second. where are these people? come on. get them out fast. we want speed. oh, there he is. look, little wise guy. little wise guy. a lot of guts. a lot of guts. i wonder who sent him in? you know, they send them in, by the way. it's very -- but i love -- i love my protestors. because these guys never move the cameras. i say it all the time. i call my wife melania, because the way, has she done a great job on television lately? right? will she be a great and very beautiful first lady, right?

and she's very, very smart, and she's got a big heart. i will tell you. she's got a great heart. but i love my protestors, because, i'll go home and see melania. how did you like the crowd? didn't see it. what do you mean, you didn't see it? i heard it. when you hear this crowd you know there's a lot of people. can you imagine where we had to have over 10,000 people not come in today? but i promised i'm going to come back. none of you can come here when i come back. none of you. we're going to let the -- okay? i also know you got here at 6:00 in the morning, many of you. so -- pretty amazing. but we're going to come back, but can you imagine, i go home and i'll say, did you see the size of that crowd? we filled up dallas, you know, the mark cuban, mavericks, wonderful stadium. spoke with mark. he said, you'd fill it up fast. took it over thursday, filled it

up monday, 21,000 people, nobody knew. the reason they didn't know, rotters don't want to report it. they don't want to say. a case where bernie -- it's unbelievable. that's why i like my protestors. the only time they move the camera, if there's a protestors up on the top in the rafters they'll move it, because it's a negative thing in their mind. it's actually very positive, but you know, i'll tell you what. we have a thing going on here that's incredible. there hasn't been anything like it. the biggest story in politics, which really isn't talked about as much as it should be, is voter turnout during the primaries. 50% up. 60% up, in some cases, 100% turn -- there it is, cameras! look up there, camera. look up there at the protestors, camera.

[ chanting ] >> all: usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! >> are the trump rallies the greatest? are they the greatest? [ cheers and applause ] you know, when little marco has a rally, they get 300 people, 200 people, it's fine. i'm not knocking it. but that's sort of a normal thing. this is not a normal situation, folks. this is not a normal situation. so -- so it's been an amazing period of time for me. you know, on june 16th i took a deep breath.

this is not something that's so easy. i want to say. i took a deep breath -- >> all right. donald trump now going back to his stump speech. we're going to continue to monitor what he's saying. a huge rally underway for him in orlando, florida. you hear the protestors. kicking them out one at a time we're going to continue to watch this. and in kansas, very, very early, ted cruz slightly ahead. it's very early. watching it closely. we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ for your retirement, you want to celebrate the little things, because they're big to you. and that is why you invest. the best returns aren't just measured in dollars.

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a key race alert. update viewers now what's going on in kansas. look at these numbers coming in. in the republican caucuses in kansas, 3% of the vote now in. ted cruz building up a lead. 52.6%. donald trump in second place,

21.1%. marco rubio with 14.5%. 10.1% for john kasich. you see this is really early. a nice impressive 745 point lead of ted cruz over donald trump. i want to go to a reporter covering cruz joining us from what's described as cruz headquarters. i take it they're excited very early in kansas he's doing very well? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. you can hear the excitement here building at cruz' headquarters here in idaho. a campaign official came out onstage and said cruz is winning kansas. of course, just an early prediction, but the cruz campaign tells me they are feeling encouraged why what they're seeing in kansas and as well other states. they feel optimistic and feel it will be a good night in terms of expanding their delegate count. a cruz campaign official pointing not only to kansas but also pointing to maine tonight where they think things are looking good.

also they're really eyeing louisiana as well. the cruz campaign, though, is not predicting any sort of outright win of any state yet. for them it really is about delegates, delegates, delegates. the goal for them is to make basically sure that they reach each threshold in every state to accumulate, pick up those delegates. they really want to widen the divide with marco rubio in delegates counts and of course, lessen the divide with donald trump. not predicting any outright top but the cherry on top, of course, get a w, a big win, potentially in kansas. we'll see how that shakes out. >> sun lesunlen, we'll hear fro senator cruz at some point. and now to chris cuomo with a big job tonight. >> my job, listen, wolf. so many great panelists assembled to figure out what's going on today. we just heard donald trump saying it's no longer about a man. it's a movement.

gloria, when you heard those lines from him and he was doing a lot of his stump speech but started to list states and make this historical and we haven't seen this in 100 years. what's the new move? >> he's got to keep winning, and i think the job for his opponents today is to stop this inevitable movement towards victory, which a lot of people think he has. and so if they can pick off some states. if they can -- if ted cruz, for example, can do what rick santorum did last time and surprise everyone and win kansas, for example, lots of evangelicals in kansas, or start wracking up delegates. this is not -- about stopping donald trump's momentum. you've seen the establishment freak out this week. you heard mitt romney, and i think that what that may do in the end, and we'll see today,

incite trump supporters to come out even more. we just don't know yet. >> hmm. so paula begala, looking at this from a strategy standpoint, he was saying the names of all the state he's won for a reason. >> right. >> he had that list, was checking it twice. what do you think the message is he's sending to people? >> to his supporters you're not alone. this is a movement. a lot of these folks, tend to be older white guys. i'm not one of them, but a lot of guys i grew up with. maybe the only one at the office or at the little league game. you're not alone. you can join this moovement. used a name that astonished me. jeb bush. why would he -- no more. there's a method to the madness. >> did you just say emotionally -- >> he is. come on, chris. no. this is strategic. >> preparing for today, i see, begala. >> he is going at the establishment. gloria is exactly right. when mitt romney came out, said

trump is terrible. the best thing that could happen to trump. free advice from the establishment? your base is really angry with you. when someone's angry with you the three most words you can say is i hear you. exactly what romney did not say. you're wrong, stupid, horrible. the guy you like is terrible. that's not going to move voters off of trump. it's going to move them to trump. >> ron brownstein what is success today, if you're senators rubio or cruz? >> cruz is the candidate with the most at stake in today's voting, because there are that many states left. from the beginning prepond derrantly reliant, not won on voters not evangelicals expect texas. today some of the last remaining states on the calendar, louisiana, kentucky, half the adult population is evangelical. kansas, republican party heavily evangelical. states particularly kansas and louisiana both santorum and huckabee won. a number of evangelical states

santorum and huckabee won cruz has not won. if he can't win in a closed primary, the list of places argue he's the guy to unite the party is dwindling. >> a quick break. come to you on the other side. starting to get votes in from kansas, as wolf was telling you. still early, but the numbers right on the other side of this break. take a look at the lines in wa$e wichita on the way out. i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most of my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara® it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections

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welcome back. i'm wolf blitzer. check it out. getting the numbers from kansas right now. 3% of the vote is now in. ted cruz has an impressive lead so far, 52.7%, donald trump 21.1%. marco rubio in third, 14.4%. 10.1% for john kasich. in texas again only 3% of the vote so far has been counted.

i want to go to rosa flores in wichita for us watching what's going on. still long lines behind you. >> reporter: wolf, kansas has a great, great big problem. take a look. the lines wrap around the building. they had to have a volunteer with a sign at 2:00 p.m., stop that line to make sure they could have enough ballots. hear this. this caucus is having to go to kinkos to print ballots. i want to take you to the beginning of the line. you'll be able to see how long this line is, we're going to sprint here a little bit in order for me to get there. you'll see that there are so many people here, a lot of these voters, first time caucus voters. i talked to the gop organizer who tells me that last caucus in 2012 they had about 4500 caucusgoers. this time they are estimating probably between 12 and 13,000. now, here's a beginning of the

line. hi, sir. the beginning of the line, you can see has a lot of people still inside. people register to my left. then to the right this is where people are casting ballots. and wolf, they had to add ballot stations as well because of the volume. because of the number of people who were here. now take a look, this is where democracy is working. in kansas. >> when are they going to count the vote there? >> reporter: well, that's the other thing. i talked to thegop organizer. he tells me he is like i'm looking at the rules, i know he said i wrote some of those and he's going to probably start now, he's probably going to start counting those early because he says you know, if we wait until all of this is over, you know, it's going to be a really late night. so they have gone to kinkos to print at least 3,000 here in

wichita because they were running out. and they are probably counting early because of the huge turnout. it's a great problem to have, wolf. >> very impressive. i must say. rosa, let's go over to john king at the magic wall. so huge numbers coming out in kansas. normally we would spekts maybe that would be good news for donald trump. but ted cruz so far is ahead. >> it's an open question because of all of the excitement this week. both on the trump campaign saying fight the establishment. the others saying it's time to get the never trump movement going. we'll see. rosa is getting her cardio in. let's look at kansas. this is early, 3%. ted cruz opened up a pretty big early lead but 3% of the vote. you saw the long lines, a long way to go. let's count the vote. it's not a surprise to see senator cruz up ahead you go through history i think david was talking about this earlier. in 2012, kansas went for santor santorum. in 2008 for huckabee. it also has a history of being

contrarian against the front-runner of the moment. we'll see. let's go to the delegate map. cruz won texas and oklahoma, won alaska and iowa. he is winning in the middle of the country. say he wins kansas. louisiana is a bigger test for ted cruz. you see donald trump winning from south carolina across the south, mississippi's next week. if cruz is to make a huge statement today, that would be nice, that would be nice. it's more delegates and would show he is back on track in the evangelical south. let's play this out. the interesting conversation of the party, ted cruz opened offices in florida. the establishment you heard mitt romney, he wants rubio to win here and kasich in ohio to stop trump. ted cruz doesn't want to go along. if we get to an open convention they aren't going to pick me. so let's play a scenario for you. if the we come through to march 15, this gets you through today, tomorrowext tuesday, and then through march 15 tuesday, if

donald trump runs the board there, this is -- if ted cruz can't win florida he wants trump to win because he wants rubio to get out. under this scenario, say john kasich wins ohio. for the sake of argument leave donald trump winning florida which would be what ted cruz wants. what cruz is hoping is rubio drops out, kasich only in wins ohio. watch this. even if ted cruz won everything else at that point f he swept the board after that point, he would not clinch the nomination. now it's unlikely that ted cruz is going to win new york. donald trump supporters say he won't, he won't win delaware but if you gave it to him in this, this would get him close if he swept the board. if you go back and look, the cruz dream is to get rubio out of the race, even if that happens, if you start saying then what happens with donald trump, you may get something like this where they are in a heated battle stopping each oth other. that's the cruz dream. it depends on the state of florida. if rubio, there is a poll

suggesting he is coming back, do this, then a lot of this would disappear. but that is the cruz dream strategy. a long way to go counting the votes. >> we're watching the republican caucuses in kansas, now the democratic caucuses in kansas as well. kansas an important state on this super saturday. let's take a quick break. all her aches and pains. and i said "come to class, let's start walking together" and i said "and i bet you money you'll be able to do that senior walk". that day i said "ok it's me and you girl, me and you!" i said "if you need to stop, there's a bench we'll just hang out in the shade." she said "absolutely not! we are going to finish this race!" and we were the last ones in, but you know what? we finished the race. and she goes "desiree, i'll never quit walking. ever"

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>. >> counting down to the next caucus results, the clock you can see behind us, the next democratic caucus will begin in about a half hour or so from now. let's get a key race alert right now on the republican caucuses in kansas. take a look. 4% of the vote is now in. ted cruz an impressive lead, 53.5% to donald trump's 22.5%.

marco rubio at 13.2%, 9.2% for john kasich. still an impress sf lead but only 4% of the vote has been counted. we're watching that state closely. let's go to stephanie watching a democratic caucus taking place, we see crowds there. you're in roland, kansas. what's going on where you are? rfrmths what i want to show you here is this line behind me. this line is made up of people registering to vote. maybe moved into the county, may be some who are changing parties, some checking to see what their affiliation is and making sure their rej vags is valid. why is it important? they have run out of these registration cards here. they had to print more because there is such a big turnout here today. they were expecting a turnout to be strong. they called it this would be a gentle wave compared to 2008