wolf? >> miguel, thank you very much. let's go over to john king. john, the kentucky numbers are coming in. right now, 10% have already been counted. donald trump maintains his lead. >> he maintains his lead but off the top i want to say almost nothing from the major population. if you're marco rubio, you're looking at the early numbers and you're surely disappointed. right now this is a cruz/trump race. that's a healthy lead. i want to make clear, here in the fidel of the state, fayette county. lexington, nothing in. over by louisville, jefferson county, 17% of the population, absolutely nothing in. if you're going to see better numbers for marco rubio, you're going to see them in the lexington area and in northern kentucky. this number has to improve or we'll have a very disappointing night for marco rubio. where is trump winning? you see the map filling in, predominantly rural counties. that's what we've seen in other states. it's a primary, not a caucus.

we've seen this in other primary states where trump is cutting into more cruz country. trump has had very good success in what we thought was ted cruz's basket and that's what you're seeing here. again, it's very early on. historically, this doesn't offer us much of a test to go back in time. remember, this was moved up for rand paul, the senator from kentucky thought he was going to have his day if he was still in the race. if you go back in time, this state was won hugely by mitt romney in 2012 and by john mccain and by then the race was in a different position. so as we watch this tonight, kentucky, in an unusual place of being a very important early contest in the race. rand paul voted today and didn't tell us who he voted for. we already have the results obviously coming to us out of kansas. we have the results coming to us out of kansas for a cruz win.

if you're donald trump, you're hoping to hold this and that would be a signal to donald trump that he'll do well in louisiana which doesn't close until 9:00 eastern. we're waiting there. one quick footnote, let's check on maine. up to 9% now. cruz is still holding onto that lead. we don't know what is missing but cruz has been holding the lead from the beginning. that would be an exclamation point to ted cruz's day if he can do that. a lot of people are asking me on twitter, where are the democratic results? the official results are not in yet. we have no reporting when you look at kansas or at nebraska. we don't know. the officials results are coming in. we'll see. >> we know ted cruz won. very quickly, in kentucky, 11% of the vote is now in in kentucky. 11% and trump's lead has just grown to 30.5%. cruz, 32.9%. 11% of the vote is now in.

>> as the results came in up here, this is a small county but you see 43%. you see the counties long the border, 40%. remember, significantly, again, you know, you don't have to make too much of this, but ohio comes up on the 15th. this is a slug fest. one of the things we watch to see how donald trump and all the candidates do right along the border here because often the smaller counties on the other side as well, this a very conservative area, cincinnati to the east, a very conservative area. interesting swing area in some areas. we'll see if we get hints of what might happen in southern ohio. >> six contests to go. one contest down. back to you, chris. >> to reiterate a point from earlier, one of the reasons we're waiting for the results is not just because of the timing change but the process. this is a really sloppy process, no matter whether it's a primary or a caucus.

especially if it's a caucus. we see it again and again and that's maybe something that will be dealt with on a different day. the system as it is still leaves us with the same universe of reality today, which is, whether you're looking at cruz's move, rubio's lapse, kasich's inertia, it's all about trump. people -- there will be some eye rollers. of course it always is with you guys. he has an entire party looking to unseat him which many think will cause an insurrection at the convention. there is a reason that he has all of this energy around him. it's not just the media. >> right. it's not just the media. he's captured 35% of the vote. 3 million voters. he's beating everybody. and the entire calendar was designed to help an establishment candidate. he wasn't able to live up to the

hype and trump has gotten better as a candidate and i don't think you can say the same of marco rubio. >> channelling to ron brownstein, not since 1960 has a republican candidate won the states that donald trump has across geographic and ideological boundaries. >> and that's because he's slicing the party along a different fissure and is embodying an historic shift of party within the republicans. it's been ideology and reason. the key divide has been education. he is dominant among blue collar republicans. he's competition among college-educated republicans and in every state, his voting has lagged behind his vote among blue collar republicans. this is the first time when we've seen the blue collar wing of the party fundamentally drive the nominee. if you think about romney and

mccain, they were more white collar, middle manager, mainstream conservatives. trump really is embodying the effort decades of realignment with the white working class moving more into the republican party. i think for the first time we're seeing those voters drive the train and i think that's part of the reason that -- >> why does it keep being spun as trump is somehow corrupting the party and not what ron is laying out, which is the party has changed. >> not -- well, a couple things. those very same voters that ron is talking about are also coming from the left. they feel they have been abandoned by a democratic party that, for example, in the last cycle talked all about stuff like free contraception, giving someone like mark ut terus udala loss. so you might turn out and you might vote for trump this year. >> but why go after trump?

what i'm saying is this. why is the party -- why is the question, oh, we should find a way to get rid of trump? why don't they listen to their voters and say, this is who we are. this is who we are voting for. don't kick out our guy. >> the republican party does not listen to trump and say we need to start bringing back -- >> listen to your voters. >> no. >> listen to your party members. >> the reason this happens, i hate to say this, but when ronald reagan picked george h.w. bush as vice president, he later wrote in his memoirs that he felt that reagan had set up a succession for these establishment republicans. that is, in fact, what's happened. every nominee after reagan was a member of that establishment and these folks, god bless them, are tone deaf a lot of times. reagan changed the republican party, brought in blue collar folks and democrats and independents, et cetera. and the country club republicans

took it back. >> george w. bush doesn't really fit that narrative. he appeals to both wings of the republican party. >> but he couldn't put it together in any sort of -- 537 votes in florida, the supreme court -- >> and he would have gotten a beating in this primary, you could speculate, as a sitting governor from a family who had a president in it. he -- >> this conversation assumes that the gop composition has been static since the time of reagan and it hasn't been. not only has it changed, ron, it has diminished. there's a reason that 42% of the country, according to gallup are i's, not d's. who is left behind? the folks who buy into trump's message. >> a hot of this is motivated by the fact that you've had eight years of president obama and the republicans who have been out of power and economic -- they haven't had a raise in 15 years. they are really upset about it

and republicans, the voters that you speak about, are angrier than democrats like obama. the democrats' poll always points out, are happier this year than republicans and that anger and the frustration of not being able to raise your income over the last 15 years is, by the way, what drives voter -- >> it's like 30 years. >> what drives people to trump and to bernie sanders. >> quick point and then we have to go. >> this is something i liked about trump at the beginning and i'll say it, was the potential to change the politics in america from traditional left/right to elite and populous. the tea party began not as a social right movement but as opposition to the taxpayer of the big banks. but trump's danger is he combines that with this ugly strain of nationalism and that scares the party.

>> and one perspective on him. the other is there is a double-edge virtue. he's an elitist harnessing the angst and potential for deliverance of those -- >> not only elites. >> that's true. >> now, all of this is a theoretical that luckily with elections gets played out in the practical and that comes out in our results and that's why we go back to you, wolf. >> thanks, chris. it's super saturday. by the end of the night, 22 states will have weighed in and as it stands right now, marco rubio will have won precisely one state. that's as it stands right now. cnn projects ted cruz will win the kansas republican caucuses. he could win another state by the end of the night. the republican race is now really a two-fan fight between cruz and donald trump. the republican vote in kansas is the only race that cnn has projected so far tonight. but we're getting hard numbers

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donald trump is expanding his lead in kentucky against cruz. trump is at 43.5% and cruz is at 30.6% and marco rubio at 12.9% and only 11% for kasich. in maine, i'll review for our viewers who may be tuning in, cruz is at 43%. he's ahead of donald trump in maine right now. 36.6% for trump. kasich is in third place. 11.1%. marco rubio is only at 7.8%. the numbers have just changed in kentucky again. let's go back to kentucky. 18% of the vote is in. trump is at 41.9%. cruz is at 30.6% in kentucky. looks like donald trump is doing much better in kentucky right now than he had been doing earlier in kansas which cruz won. >> we were talking earlier in the night about how rand paul

had these rules changed because he couldn't technically or legally be on the ballot for president and for senate. >> in a primary. >> in a primary. i was actually in paul's house and i have this vision of them sitting in the living room with him throwing things at the television saying, this is what i created because he went out really whaling on donald trump and now he's winning. >> he did, indeed. kentucky is a state that is clearly hospitable to trump's message and if you look at his other victory ace cross the country thus far, it would not surprise many people to see trump doing well in kentucky. our kyung lah said something interesting. she has heard from an official there that in 2012, which was a primary, 26,266 votes were cast in the republican primary in 2012 in kentucky. today, which is a caucus, which usually does not get the turnout

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all right. let's get another key race alert right now in the kentucky

presidential caucuses. 19% of the vote is now in. trump maintaining his lead. just gone from 41.4% to 31% for ted cruz. he's got a lead of 4,079. 16,132 for trump. 12,053 for cruz. rubio and kasich in third and fourth. cruz is ahead of trump there. 43% to 36.6%. kasich is in third place. marco rubio in fourth place. we should be getting more numbers from maine and kentucky coming in very soon. i want to walk over to john king. kentucky is a key state, a key state for the republicans right now. donald trump is doing well. he wants to win this state badly. >> he sure does. he wants to make a statement especially after the ted cruz in kansas and a convincing win in kansas. trump wants to cause any conversation that maybe there's a pause in the trump movement. this has been a lead that donald trump has been holding for some

time but as a caution, the largest county in the state, jefferson county, louisville, david chalian said there is high turnout there. we've got nothing. we're missing a huge chunk there. also missing a huge chunk here in the middle of the state, fayette county, 17% of the population, we have absolutely nothing. the city and suburbs around here are very important. and we have some of the cincinnati suburbs. campbell county. ted cruz winning this particular county. it's all in. if you move over one county, just shy of 4% in covington, we're waiting for votes up there as well. at the moment, because of his support in the rural areas, you have donald trump pulling up a lead. again, this is like something we've seen across -- i want to bring up the map and show you evangelical population across the united states of america. the deeper the shading, the higher of the p higher the percentage of the

evangelicals in this area. when you look at this nationally, this was supposed to be the ted cruz foundation from south carolina all the way across to texas that brought him the nomination. you come back no now to the map of what has happened so far, it's been donald trump, donald trump, donald trump. the only texas and oklahoma, ted cruz delivered here. if trump can add to his numbers kentucky, not only is he making a statement but the shift is just fine and making a broader statement about the state of the race and, again, cruz delegatewise will be making the case for days that i'm the closest guy to donald trump and marco rubio is way, way, way behind me but donald trump will be making the case, this is the base of the republican party across the south and i'm winning big. >> that's a primary, not a caucus. 9:00 p.m. is when louisiana closes. we'll see what happens there. we'll go back to chris. >> thank you very much, wolf. we left you with a very thrilling question, a long, long time ago and now we'll have it asked and answered.

go ahead, professor brownstein. >> if did you get to the situation of a brokered convention, no one had a majority going in, would the convention, if they did in fact try to passover donald trump, would they be more likely to go to someone who finished behind him 4 or 500 delegates or go to someone completely off the playing field, someone who had not run at all? >> well, i've had nine hours to think of an answer. if you compared the candidates and conceivably they have as many delegates or exceeding donald trump, i think you could get away with the ruiz ticket. otherwise, you have to go to someone who is not a candidate and you know who those would be, right? >> wait a minute. to begala's point, what is the outrage that comes? >> this happened in 1968 and that was before we did with some of the primaries. bob bobby kennedy won half of them

and then mccarthy won. lyndon johnson was conducting the war. lyndon johnson, forced hubert who had campaigned in zero primaries, they forced him on and there were riots in the street. the central mission of trump voters is to take down the party establishment. if they are overwhelmed and a paul ryan is put in their place, i hate to sound too apocalyptic, these people are armed, man. >> cleveland is a gun-free -- >> thank goodness. thank god. >> this was done in 1912 and teddy roosevelts a and his fans rented a hall and said we stand at armageddon and battle for the -- >> why isn't that what trump has

going on right now? >> they are not no nothings. they are good, solid americans. >> the know nothings were highly nationalistic. >> they were anti-establishment. >> i'm saying, is that similar, there was a fear of the unknown, they were trying to close ranks. >> completely. although, their candidate lost and greatly benefited the democrats. that was a more traditional three-party kind of an election. but again, the 1880 reference is also similar in that you had 14 guys running in that primary. 14. just like this one. and the front-runners, there were three front-runners going into this. they went through 35 ballots. 35. and then two of the front-runners ended up throwing their support behind a guy who wasn't even running. garfield. but he had not won a single election. >> deliberative party. now they are confirming parties.

it's like you go to a wedding and the priest says, do you take this man? there's no suspense, we hope. >> a different question. go ahead. what's your question? >> why wouldn't trump pick somebody from -- he said he's got to broaden out. he even said i would pick a politician as my vice president. >> what if he picks ryan? >> well, he could pick anybody -- >> let me -- kasich has not attacked trump. >> he said he would be the worst vice president in the world. >> that's what they all say before they join the ticket. >> so what if trump picked somebody? it seems like he might do that. >> i think that's what is going to happen. >> is s.e. cupp happy if that happens? >> i think there's going to be an olive branch. >> somebody who ran or somebody who -- >> hold on, guys. we have a winner on the democratic side. an announcement to be made.

wolf? >> thanks very much, chris. according to the democratic party, an official statement coming in. bernie sanders has won the kansas democratic presidential caucuses. bernie sanders is the winner in kansas. they say 90% of the vote has been counted. 40,000 people participated. bernie sanders picks up another win tonight. he wins kansas in the democratic caucuses. let's go back to dana and company. dana, very important win psychologically, politically for senator bernie sanders. >> absolutely. you were reporting earlier that the campaign and clinton sources were saying this was a likely outcome and they were right. >> right. he campaigned in kansas and she did not. he went to lawrence, kansas, for a big rally. but the clinton camp said, look at the turnout. it was higher tonight than in 2008 when barack obama ran. so the sanders camp believe this is is a sign that there is energy and enthusiasm out there for him.

now, important to keep in mind, he does not get all of these delegates. >> right. >> it's still proportional. these are democratic rules. the clinton campaign believes that they will lose some certainly but it's a good win for senator sanders, no question. continues the upward climb from oklahoma to kansas and possibly nebraska. we'll find out in just a couple -- or half an hour's time the results there will begin to come in. for senator sanders, it's another win in the basket. what does it mean overall in that's still to be determined. >> and david, it's also yet another indication of how different their appeal is within the democratic electorate, right? in certain states that are predominantly right, bernie sanders tends to put together something that looks akin to barack obama that was able to do in those states. but the african-american populations that we saw down in

south carolina and hillary, she looks more like the barack obama candidate in terms of the coalition. one note from 2008, as i was looking up the results, barack obama won that 23% to 25%. so, yes, bernie sanders may have gotten a laurrger turnout but i will be interesting to see what the split of the vote is which determines the delegate allocation. >> i'm sure you've been hearing from the clinton camp, as i have, that going into tonight she was at a higher number of total delegates than barack obama was at the same point in 2008. >> that's true. one of the reasons was, the calendar was different that year. california was early. other states was early. it's not exactly apples to apples. if you talk to the sanders folks, they say, only after tonight, only 28% of the delegates have been picked. 70% are still to go. the reason bernie sanders says i'm going to fight until the convention, some of the big states this year are at the end. california is in june. wisconsin is in april.

new york is in april. so march is a bit of a drought for bernie sanders but his team says if you want to know why bernie sanders is staying in, that's why. the map is different this time. we'll see if the party allows it. he'll definitely raise money tonight. we'll see what happen if there's a call for him to sort of exit the stage left. >> collective delegates overtaking the delegate lead is a different thing. >> sure. and to your point, he can. even if the party elders or donors they don't want him to be in there, it's not his financial base. it's the small donors out there. let's not forget tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. in flint michigan, the debate between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. bernie sanders is the winner in kansas. cruz is the winner in kansas as well. two down and five to go. much more of our coverage right after this. ♪ (vo) you can check on them.

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cnn has reported, based on the official announcement from the kansas democratic party, bernie sanders is the winner in kansas. this is his sixth win so far in all of these contests. hillary clinton has won ten. ted cruz we projected earlier, he's the winner in the republican caucus in the same state as kansas. let's take a look at the latest key race alert on other contests we're watching right now.

in kentucky, first of all, 21% of the vote is official. 42% for donald trump. ted cruz is in third place with 30.4%. rubio and kasich way down in third and fourth place. in maine, still only 9% of the vote is in. cruz had 43%. trump in second place with 36%. kasich is in third place down at 11%. marco rubio, a distant fourth at 7.8%. we've got two contests down and several more to go. we're going to be making projections throughout the night. in the meantime, let's go back to chris. >> interesting look there in kentucky. you have both rubio and kasich careful there but good on the threshold. maine, not so much. that will be interesting, too. it's proportional but you need to be gaining all the time to stay competitive. all right. so we just got the word about bernie sanders and he won a race tonight. so, let's look at the democrat side in terms of what this means. when you look at sanders doing well, not unexpected but there

continues to be a movement. a movement. what does that mean on this side? >> right. this is sort of the prairie populism of sanders that plays well in these states. he's been talking about it and these are former obama states. so i don't think it's much of a surprise tonight that bernie sanders will do well there. i think the clinton campaign, as dana was mentioning before, talking about their huge delegate lead and also, of course, as we are on the republican side, it's so important to donald trump but on the democratic side, looking at the margin by which hillary clinton is expected to win in louisiana. also, one other thing, clinton had the endorsement in kansas. you were talking earlier about the importance of governors. >> kathleen sebelius, kansas, i think the democratic race is going to look close in some ways because of the way that the

delegates are allocated. what's interesting is clinton or whoever won't be able to really pull ahead but it's also true that it's hard for bernie sanders to overcome that lead. if you remember, back in 2008, i think it was like 30-20 in terms of the states that obama won versus clinton. so it's going to be a muddled race but i think the underlying kind of factor is that clinton is ahead and it's going to be difficult for sanders. >> and we're going to know a lot more in the hurry. the sanders campaign is facing the reality that they cannot establish a consistent or big enough lead among white voters and they have said that they believe african-american voters in the midwest might be more culturally and economically hope to them than we saw in the south. we have michigan followed by ohio and illinois. if he's losing 80% of african-american voters in the midwest the same way he did in the south, we're done in a hurry. >> the difference between the

r's and the d's, if you're marco rubio and you don't win, your money dries up. with bernie sanders, the $27 amount continue to flow. >> look, jesse jackson, as paul remembers in the '80s, ran all the way to the end as well. you can do that. if you can't break out of a pattern where you're winning 35, 38, 40%, sure, you can run but you're not going to change anything. >> and the hope with yes, sir see jackson back in the '80s was that he could bring together blue and white collar blacks and he won the michigan caucuses and he was on the cover of magazines. >> the question that gets asked all the time and never really answered to my satisfaction is why doesn't bernie sanders do better with african-americans? it doesn't make sense in terms of his message. i don't know why it wouldn't resonate. >> it's not his weakness. it's hillary's strength. i think we're looking at the wrong side of the equation. >> but what is her access to

that community? >> bernie is -- >> as a 20-year-old, he got arrested trying to integrate housing at the university of chicago. he has a terrific record. hillary has a et aboutbetter re the eyes of the voters. >> hold on a second. i'm not cutting you off for a bad reason. it's for good reason. it's from maine. we have an official getting ready to speak right now and let us know what is happening. here it is. >> it's been phenomenal. and i'm about to introduce the chairman of the party here. before i do that, this event is sponsored and i want to mention and recognize the sponsors. beginning with associated builders and contractors, please, a round of applause for them. thank you, associated builders and contractors. also, the retail association of maine, retail association of maine. and also the dental association of maine. a big round of applause for all

of them who have helped make this really special night even more special. and there are a lost reasons why the republican party has risen to the place where it is now in the state of maine. a lot of great candidates. we're right on the issues. and the leadership at the top of the party. it starts from the top and really works its way down and that's the way it's happened in maine. this party has come back to life so now we're kicking ass and taking names. and the leader of the pact, mr. rick bennett, ladies and gentlemen! >> thank you very much, mike. what a great honor to have mike with us and thank you for taking your time.

first, i want to say a thank you to the republicans across this great state. today's success is due to the enthusiasm across this state for people coming out and i want to say thank you to the candidates who competed here in maine. we've had a couple of visits recently and all four of the candidates left were campaigning in some way in this state and i appreciate that. i also want to just say a shoutout, this is the first time that we've tried this new approach and there are wrinkles and challenges, of course. but the participation level, the phenomenal organization and the extraordinary results in terms of raw people coming out and exercising their franchise is amazing. i just want to say a big thank you to the key architect of our

process here, our chief caucus warden, kim. thank you so much, kim. and i also want to say a big shoutout to our executive director, the main gop and the rest of our staff, jason savage, our executive director and the rest of our staff. now, for the results. four years ago we had a spirited contest between mitt romney and ron paul. and people will remember that. there were 5,585 votes cast in 2012. this year, four years later, we saw a turnout of 18,650 maine

republicans. [ applause ] the republican party is back in maine and we are resurging. and we have literally thousands, thousands of newly enrolled republicans in the last month alone in the state of maine. [ applause ] now, without further ado, i'll give you summary information and reveal the percentages and the delegate allocation.

so, here are the numbers. the northern part of arista county, the central part of arista county. the southern part of aroostook county. cumberland county from greeley middle school. cumberland county from westbrook high school. cumberland county from windhamid dell school.

franklin county. hancock county. kennebec county. knox county. lincoln county. oxford county. penobscot county. penobscot county. somerset county. piscataquis county.

somerset county. the other section. waldo county. washington county. and finally, york county. now, what does that all mean? let me tell you the nine people on our ballot. the results were as follows and includes the military absentees. jeb bush, 31 votes. ben carson, 132 votes. ted cruz, 8,550 votes. carly fiorina, 17 votes. mike huckabee, 10 votes. john kasich, 2,270 votes. rand paul, 55 votes.

marco rubio, 1,492 votes. and donald trump, 6,070 votes with 27 write-ins. so, the percentages. and as i'll remember, if any candidate achieves 50% plus 1, they win all 23 main delegates. if no candidate achieves 50% plus 1, then the delegates, the 23 delegates will be allocated to those who get more than 10% of the vote on a proportional basis among those candidates. so, coming in first, in the maine caucuses is senator cruz with 45.8% of the vote. second is donald trump with 32.55% of the vote. coming in third is governor john

kasich with 12.17% of the vote. and fourth, with 8.00% of the vote is senator marco rubio. because of that, three candidates to achieve delegates to the national delegation in cleveland. ted cruz is awarded 12 delegates. donald trump is awarded 9 delegates. and john kasich is awarded 2 delegates. thank you, everyone, for your participation and enjoy the party. >> all right. so you heard it, richard bennett, the republican party chairman speaking from lewiston, maine, ted cruz picking up his second win. earlier he won in kansas and now he wins in maine. he's got seven wins right now. six wins right now coming into

tonight, he had four wins. two more today. an impressive win, decisive win, dana. he's going to get the most delegates in the state of maine. >> that's right. a very important win for ted cruz. what immediately struck me, david, is you heard the chairman talking about the overall turnout last time around. a pretty spirited contest there between romney and ron paul. last time, 5,580 votes total. ted cruz in his win got 8,850 votes to almost 3,000 more that only he got than the total who went. it just shows enthusiasm is way up. it's not just about donald trump because he got more. >> that is key. >> it's about the people who are going out as sort of the tea party win. one other quick point i want to make before i ask you what you

think is the governor lepage, he endorsed donald trump and it didn't get him over the top. >> that's right. first, he endorsed chris christie in the race and then after chris christie put his endorsement to donald trump, so, too, did governor lepage follow, despite all of the criticisms that he made about trump and got behind trump but was not able to deliver in some sort of a republican machine sort of way for trump. >> not at all. >> perhaps that endorsement came too late. perhaps lepage doesn't have the sway. what i think is so key about turnout, ted cruz has just robbed donald trump of one of his big talking points, which is that only donald trump is responsible for this enthusiasm. >> that's right. >> and now ted cruz, he, too, can claim mantle to see some of that enthusiasm. it's not uncommon to see the democrats at the white house after eight years with barack obama, you see enthusiasm from the out party normally when some

of the other party has had the white house for eight years and the trump component and now ted cruz gets to claim some of this. and that's a big deal. and i just think this state of maine, it is not like other places ted cruz -- he's a different kind of state now to show that he can win in a different part of the country with a different set of voters right now and that, to me, creates a bit of a halt for a moment of donald trump's momentum. i know we have louisiana to go tonight and he may have a big fight there. i'm not suggesting the trump rise is down with or somehow his candidacy is in peril. he's by far the delegate leader but ted cruz has an argument that this is a two-person race. >> ted cruz just won in new england in the republican race. >> won in new england and in maine in almost every county. >> yes. >> every precinct he was ahead of donald trump. two big wins for cruz tonight in kansas and in maine. we're still waiting for the republican caucuses in kentucky and the louisiana primary,

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it's super saturday, the first test for the gop since mitt romney called on republicans to stop donald trump. ted cruz has just scored a big win in the maine caucuses. this follows his victory in the kansas caucuses where he doubled donald trump's total. on the democratic side, hillary clinton is looking to pad her lead over bernie sanders but she'll have to do it some place besides kansas since bernie sanders has just been declared the winner of the caucus in kansas. there are still races that have to be called for both parties as the votes come in. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer coming to you from the cnn election center. votes are being counted in kentucky. in just a few minutes, louisiana and nebraska will weigh in as well. we could be on the verge of making some major projections. on this super saturday, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are

battling for 109 delegates, a whopping 51 of which could be decided in a matter of minutes. 51. that's how many delegates are up for grabs in louisiana. and the clinton campaign has done everything to make sure it takes the lion's share of the vote there. hillary clinton has a big lead over bernie sanders in the polls. bill clinton in baton rouge for hillary and bodes well for her chances. we shall see. on the republican side, it's anyone's guess who will win tonight. back in 2012, republicans voted for rick santorum. could they rally around a cruz campaign tonight or will donald trump add another state to his coalition. we're watching all of this very, very closely. i want to go to cnn's jim acosta. we're standing by, also, to hear donald trump. he's where you are in west palm beach. so far, two states have gone for

cruz. he's waiting for the two more republican states to weigh in. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. we're inside the ritzy golf club where donald trump will be out here. within the hour, we believe, to get his reaction to super saturday. it has not been a super saturday for donald trump. he is going to, at best, go two for four tonight. i talked to a top trump campaign official who said this is a good night for ted cruz. focusing heavily on caucus states, that's paying off and paying dividends for ted cruz. you can pardon some of the people moving around in this room, wolf. that's because this is not only a press conference, this is also a watch party. there are seven rows of trump supporters standing in front of the press area here. >> there's an announcement about to be made on the democratic caucuses in nebraska. vince powers, state democratic chairman speakin