city, kansas. both republican and democratic caucuses too early to call at this point. kentucky's final republican caucuses kick off in just a few minutes but you may be surprised to learn where they're caucusing there when democrats don't vote until may. plus the issues kentucky voters are focused on straight ahead. hey how's it going, hotcakes? hotcakes. this place has hotcakes. so why aren't they selling like hotcakes? with comcast business internet and wifi pro, they could be. just add a customized message to your wifi pro splash page and you'll reach your customers where their eyes are already - on their devices. order up. it's more than just wifi, it can help grow your business. you don't see that every day. introducing wifi pro, wifi that helps grow your business. comcast business. built for business. >>> so here we are. we're taking a look at some of these results. ted cruz has been back and forth between 49% and 50%, double that basically of what donald trump -- i tell you what's interesti

. >> in kansas. kansas. and so, even for them it was a surprise as to how much of a swing it was. obviously the suggestion inside the campaign is that something is shifting as we've been talking about, perhaps something shifted especially after the thursday night debate. where they felt that they did better than donald trump. perhaps the cruz campaign and ted cruz is benefiting from how marco rubio is going after donald trump. having said that, that is the spin from camp krutz. it's too early to tell whether this is really kind of a thing that's happening, or whether this is just -- >> before the votes were coming in one cruz adviser told me earlier today you know, they were feeling decent about kansas and i understand what you say it might have been a tight race. they understood that was a state that did them well. maine where the governor is endorsed donald trump, there is that real rebellious element inside the maine electorate that may play into donald trump and they, they start seeing movement i

caucuses in kansas as well. 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

park, kansas. going on between sanders and clinton? >> reporter: well, there's just phenomenal turnout as far as the democrats are concerned, wolf. they had so many people in here they had to actually let people go. they couldn't caucus the way they normally do and split those up, who's voting for clinton and who's voting for sanders. they had people sign a sheet who they wanted to caucus for. there's a line behind me for people who are now leaving because they've signed. other people are still coming in because there was a line stretching outside. when you take a look at our exit poll as we're taking a look at the numbers coming in right now as people are leaving, right now it looks like sanders is 61% of the people who were here in this room, 39% for clinton. but there they're still taking people coming in, still signing at it point. they were at capacity so now they have to figure out how to get these people in and get their numbers. it will be a while before things are finally tabulated. but a

here's the story in kansas.alked to the gop chair, he tells me that in 2012, they had about 30,000 people cast ballots during the caucus, this year they printed 60,000 ballots and they had to go to kinkos to print more because of the turnout. now, who will that benefit? will that benefit donald trump, will that benefit cruz, rubio, we don't know yet of course. you're seeing the numbers coming in. we're seeing the ballots come in in boxes. you can see more volunteers here behind in this first table. they are also coming in and starting to count them. they are in groups of two because both of these volunteers count them and then they recount them to make sure that they are official. and you can see if you look right here to the right, more boxes, wolf. more of these botches. some of these ballots printed at kinkos because of the turnout. wolf. >> good news is that kinkos is open on this saturday. rosa, thanks very much. chris, back to you. >> i'll tell you, when you hear about them running to kinkos and the volunt

kansas and maine. and by the way, maine is not an evangelical state. >> cruz will probably lean more on his victory in maine than possibly any other. because he will say, that's not my territory. that is as far from texas as i can get. >> northeast republicans. >> potatoes. not cotton. >> steve, give us the fill on this. >> i want to give you two pieces about maine and tell what you that means. first of all, on maine. two thing to consider from these results. number one, keep in mine in 2012, maine is different than other new england states. ron paul nearly won this state in 2012 again mitt romney. he lost by two and a half points. it may be thatron has gotten that ron paul coalition. the other thing is the prults are coming out. where cruz won, they said york county at the end. the southern tip of maine. it is almost like a bedroom community for boston. this is right across the bridge from sports, new hampshire. in material of what we've seen tonight and what it means for the delegate race between kan

right, kansas city star political reporter dave helling. thanks a lot. >> sreenivasan: louisiana is a state that former president bill clinton won twice-- in the 1992 and 1996 general elections-- but no democratic presidential candidate has won it since. former first lady hillary clinton-- should she become this year's democratic nominee-- could aim to reverse that losing streak. joining me now to discuss how the campaign in both parties has played out before today's louisiana primary voters is elizabeth crisp, a political reporter for the "baton rouge advocate." so, none of the candidates are in town today. what's the activity been like in louisiana with the candidates over the past few days? >> after super tuesday, we started seeing more activity from the candidates. last night, donald trump was in new orleans. ted cruz was in the new orleans area. bill clinton has been in louisiana for the past two days. and so, it really seemed to kind of spike as today approached. >> sreenivasan: i know that former governor bobby jindal had endorsed ru

kansas. for more on how it turned out, it's time for "a closer look." [ cheers and applause ] now, when you hear kansas, you probably think "wizard of oz," college basketball or the state that based on its shape, looked like someone nibbled on colorado. [ laughter ] but, in the last few years, kansas has also become something of a laboratory for conservative economic policies under its governor sam brownback, who cut taxes for the wealthy and completely eliminated income taxes for small businesses. a plan he boldly described this way. >> on taxes you need to get your overall rates down and you need to get your social manipulation out of it, in my estimation to create growth. and, you know, we'll see how it works. we'll have a real, live experiment. >> seth: real live experiment is a terrible sales pitch for something. those words usually only show up in shady, classified ads. [ laughter ] nonetheless, brownback got his tax cuts. which he said were designed to show the rest of the country that

jacob, trump skipped cpac and went to kansas and now has lost in kansas. any sense of how the donald trump who is planning to have a press conference tonight is going to deal with what is shaping up so far to not be a very super saturday for him. >> you know, the campaign is confident, they say, that he'll be the nominee. they know he has not done done well generally in caucus states. in fact he lost iowa, minnesota, alaska. those caucuses even though polls had him ahead. he has generally not done well in these caucuses. although the polls had him leading in kansas and else where tonight, tonight may not be his big night. he's looking ahead, of course, to florida where he was today, this afternoon. though, of course, he really wanted to win kansas. he did that last-minute stop this morning and he skipped cpac, a must attend usually. he skipped that and went to kansas. it should have been a big day for him. but there were reports even as he went after that rally in kansas over to a caucus area so he could speak. he was booed loudly because of the supporters

kansas. >> senator u.s. senator ted cruz also and kansas. >> we had 15 primaries so far and we have been able to one over and over and over again from the grassroots. we can focus on substance, we can focus on issues and the way we win this primary and the way we beat hillary clinton in november is we tell the truth with a smile. eaton absent from the super saturday states was marco rubio that did not stop his supporters back i am a marco rubio supporter. he can bring the republican party together but what is more important, he can bring the nation together. >> n the democratic side polls show clinton with a big lead in louisiana. which has a large number of african-american voters. helped her rapid victories across asaba super tuesday, the less diverse kansas and nebraska could leave this to sandra speaking at the candidates would have too much time to rest and spread to michigan for the all-important primaries in florida and ohio on the 15th. our team coverage is in west palm beach where we

off and went to kansas.t maine they are something. you only have 12 percent of the votes in from the caucus. you can't just walk in. you don't have to caucus in three hours and it is like a primary caucus blend. but ted cruz is appearing to have a good night. and donald trump at 36.6. and interesting thing about maine, it is it moderate republican and inland area that is trump country. and so we'll see how it works out with 12 percent in right now. >> talking kentucky. this is the state's very first caucus. and this is the caucus that shut down in 4:00 and there were lines of people. and voters were turned around. what is going on in kentucky. >> they changed the schedule for kentucky. but because rand paul paid for the caucus so they could maintain a sentencing and still run for the white house. in kentucky right now, there is about seven percent reporting right now. and there are your numbers. trump has a lead by sen or ted cruz and rubio down the line and along with john kasich right there. and the theme

kansas win for ted cruz. a wins a win. 40 delegates at stake there and not surprising that ted cruz takes that state. back in 2012, rick sanatorium put mitt romney there away by a bigger margin than ted cruz won. and maine a surprise. that is a state that mitt romney won. ted cruz is making a play to be the last man standing on donald trump and putting pressure on marco rubio in the sunshine state. cruz opening up ten officeses here in florida and trying to take the votes away from marco rubio and making the case if he had lost his home state of texas, he probably would not be in this the at all. we know how adversarial donald trump and ted cruz are in the campaign trail. it is it a tag team thing to keep marco rubio from a big win. and if they keep him from winning, win or take all. and they might be able to push him out of the race. and marco rubio saying florida is not that important. we'll continue on and rubio is getting in his pick-up truck and drive in every state between now and the convention. >> we

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but again, when we look at these results, and in kansas we're still missing like suburban kansas city, so rubio's vote may be low. but again, this could be a very good day for ted cruz. if he runs first in kansas, if these results hold, he looks -- it looks like a one-two race in maine, it could be a one-two race in louisiana. now, going forward, the states aren't as good for ted cruz as they are for marco rubio, but he may be again able to come out tonight and say i'm still the only guy who's managed to give him a race, and it's going to be -- which is not great for rubio sort of trying to struggle to hang on in florida. >> ted cruz just won the cpac straw poll. do we know what the vote was or how close it was? 40% of the vote he got, rubio 30. so 40, 30, 15 for donald trump. >> there it is again, this cruz -- kind of cruzmentum of sort where he wants to establish himself as the only guy against trump. he -- >> very quickly, someone has to, don't they? >> very quickly someone has to because if not then donald trump can continue to say you know what, they're saying they want to have a

rubio had blown up his schedule this week to come into kansas to hold extra events in kansas. he thought he had a chance to win this state. not only is he running third here, the keys right here around kansas city. johnson county right outside of kansas city. home to a lot of college educated, a little more moderate republican voters. these are the kind of voters we've seen rubio doing very well with. it's why we thought he won kansas. if you look in that part of the state, too. a distant place for marco rubio. two stories here in kansas. one much, much better for ted cruz. not only winning, but winning by such a margin and marco rubio faring much, much worse than we expected. also show you as we did here in maine. the results trickling. this is kansas. this is maine. the results trickling in and always takes a long time to come in. what does this mean for the all-important delegate race. that's the question on everybody's mind. this is what we can show you what it looked like coming into tonight. we're confident what the delegate count will look like. the delegate count would

he can spell kansas. are we still in kansas?, i believe, is it makes the theory of a brokered convention slightly more possible. what is a brokered convention? it is very simply a convention where no candidate goes into the convention with the necessary 1237 delegates. so what happens? like in 1976, you had a situation where you had ford and reagan. so what they did was they nominated both of them. they voted. that was the last brokerage on the side that i know of. and obviously ford won 52-48. is there a chance of that here? >> there's definitely a chance it could happen. but is it good for the party? probably not. i think we already look so fractured and so dismembered. and so much fighting that hillary is sitting back and watch us attack each other. someone has to come out looking like a leader at this point. if donald trump is the nominee, he has to start reaching out to different kind of voters. >> so what you're talking about is the brokered convention where two of the people going into the convention, neither one had a ma

so, how did that shot of adrenaline -- the kansas city -- the kansas tax cut, work out? broke. >> seth: that's right, job growth in kansas lagged behind the rest of the country. and while supporters predicted the plan would generate $323 million in new revenue, it actually produced a $688 million loss. kansas' budget problems were so bad, in fact, that they were forced to raise tax money in 2014 using a somewhat novel strategy. >> profiting from porn. the state of kansas will soon earn money from selling sex. >> it's no secret that sex sells. and right now, hundreds of adult toys are sitting in a kansas city warehouse and are up for auction online. and while the company, equip-bid, will get a commission, most of the money from the sale of the items will end up in the hands of the kansas government. >> seth: that's right, they auctioned off sex toys from an adult store that owed back taxes. and it turned out to be an unusually popular auction. >> on average, the company, equip-bid has about 1,500 people looking at a specific auction online. a special pick up for a special

again, we call kansas, kansas has been called for senator ted cruz, giving him an estimated somewhere0 and 24 delegates which is considerable. we also, i want to welcome back ed rollins, the smartest, in my opinion, the smartest political strategist in the country. i can say that to his face because i have been saying it to him for years and years. >> i'm just the oldest. >> a lot of us are older. we don't grow smarter. you do both. great to have you with us. white house political director, i did not say, for ronald reagan, republican strategist and fox news contributor. we're hearing now that the democratic turnout in all of these states is down and way down. >> there's been no enthusiasm for this race. obviously hillary has her team and she has certain segments and sanders has the young people, but it's not like our party has every single primary or caucus, republicans have been way up. trump is obviously driving a lot of that. i think this is becoming very clear, both trump and now cruz will walk out of here with a significant number of delegates. it's really coming down to that tw

do you spell kansas wrong? >> it was clearly a typo. but it didn't look very good. the cruz campaign was saying look, we are running a grassroots campaign. this is what we like to do. it's very hard thing to do. this shows why we are better prepared for the general election than rubio or donald trump. >> let me go to ely on this. i heard you got news for us. >> i don't know, we're watching louisiana pretty closely. the numbers -- trump's margin is narrowing significantly as the votes come in from today. he did very well with early voters down there in louisiana, as he's done in a lot of these states. but late deciders haven't necessarily gone with trump. so that maybe buttresses your point, maybe the debate the other night wasn't so good for donald trump. we've seen this in other states, trump supporters really committed. but there is an opening perhaps as the race goes forward and trump continues to get hit with all this incoming, our principles pac that people are pumping money into, plans to spend $20 millio

and the university of kansas. future president woodrow wilson who had been turner's fellow graduate student and also eagerly helped spread the idea. the frontier thesis was so widely known by the 1930's, which was a key time in eisenhower's life, that the first public bibliography, published in the early 1930's, since turner gave his famous talk in paper almost 100 books or articles had been written about that thesis. by 1985, the bibliography had grown to 250 pages. turner's fame grew so great that his thesis became so prevalent that like the words of sigmund freud, the significance of the frontier in american history wasn't read some much as it was held at cocktail parties. nowhere was the air thicker than among the early new deal. most importantly with professor turner harvard student. his september 23 address on popular or progressive government to the commonwealth club in san francisco. with the country deep in the great depression, roosevelt laid out his understanding of the nation's predicament, and its sol

he's doing it in kansas. while his win is sis impressive this is a state other hopefuls in past cycles have won. if he can do well in a main caucus and hold his own in louisiana, he's got a chance to split the delegates available this weekend with donald trump. and what does that mean? there's one name i'm not mentioning, that's marco rubio. that's the person who is having a bad night. it's not clear he's going to do well in any of the contests. >> therefore, chuck, the importance of florida coming up. >> absolutely. and that's -- where is he going to do well before florida? unclear. >> chuck todd, thank you very much. nbc news projects texas senator ted cruz a winner in the gop caucuses in kansas. much more on nbc nightly news. for now, i'm jose dias balert. >>> back here at nbc 10 let's go back to our meteorologist who is tracking the wet weather. >> we had temperatures below normal this afternoon into the lower 40s. we're at 41 in philadelphia. 36 toward atlantic city, 39 toward allen town. running a littl

at stake there in kansas. maine still early for them as well. the poms just closed a short time ago. cruz pulling ahead at this point with 42% of the policy. the night is still early. five states up to grab. settle ahead, cubans stuck in central america for weeks will soon get to continue their journey into the u.s. many are expected to travel to miami, but that city isn't expected to welcome them with open arms. later tonight, five years after the fukoshima disaster, we speak to the make yours of a documentary that speaks to the legacy of this disaster. in the next hour, a deeper look at political polling, how the public's depending on the race has gathered and how polling has changed since the 1930s. that's 8p.m. eastern. had >>> american schools are stepping up efforts to protect muslim students from being bullied. the departments are expanding existing measures that protect gay students and racial minorities to include muslims. civil rights organizations have been working with schools to address recent ant

we see him in kansas today as well. any win right now is going to be viewed as momentum for the candidate that gets that win. however, it really does head into march 15th, where it becomes a winner-take-all scenario with two big states on the line, ohio and florida. if donald trump is able to win both those states, then i do think it's going to be an incredible uphill battle for the republican establishment to stop him. however, if he doesn't win both of those states, then i think it is game on, victor, and we could see a fight all the way into july. >> all right. headed to july, wow. mark preston for us there at the conservative gathering of activists and voters, cpac there in maryland, the final day. marco rubio expected to speak in a few hours. a little more than an hour and a half, actually, about 11:35. all right, mark, thank you so much. let's talk about donald trump now ditching the appearance at cpac just outside of washington, but that does not mean his presence will not be felt, of course. ahead, the tone agai

kansas. we'll see about towers. we'll see you two hours from now. >> our special election coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern as the returns come in. of course monday night a big evening for "special report." going to be a special, "special report" town hall. hillary clinton. yes. and bernie sanders hosted by bret baier, the anchor. monday night at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on america's election headquarters, your headquarters, the fox news channel. >> absolutely. i think bill should call that color mustard yellow. the ap declaring ted cruz the winner of the kansas republican caucuses. we're far from finished as voters continue to gather for caucuses and primaries in four other states. we're here all night to bring the latest results. plus donald trump looking to steal marco rubio's thunder in his home state. each held rallies today in florida ahead of a delegate rich primary later this month and john kasich said the whole thing will be decided in his home state at the republican convention in cleveland and layi

he held a rally in kansas. still, though, not explaining his absence. >> i wanted to be in kansas. i wanted to be here so badly, so i was headed to another direction. i told the pilot, we're going to kansas. just get here. now, we don't have much time this morning because in a few minutes we've got to go over and caucus. who's got the right to caucus? who's got the right to vote? raise your hand. good, good. >> cnn's rosa flores is live in wichita for us this morning. rosa, good morning to you. it's getting more and more packed behind you. you know, it's interesting when you think about this week. trump was clearly a lot more focused on rubio on the debate stage this week, but he really went after cruz already this morning and now they're about to come potentially face-to-face. >> reporter: poppy, the main event right now is right here. donald trump just wrapped up his remarks to my right. ted cruz just arrived on the scene. he is to my left. and people here are riled up for super saturday. lots at stake. i want to show you around, first of all. you can see the stage where both don

kansas, louisiana, maine and kentucky for republicans. and kansas, louisiana and nebraska for democrats. 155 delegates at stake for the republican front runner donald trtrp made the last minute decision to head to kansas and skip the conservative polilical analyst conference. >> i told the pilot we're going to kansas. just get here! >> reporter: senator ted cruz also vying for votes in kansas. >> we had 15 primaries and caucuses so far and we have been able to win over and over and over again from the grass roots. we can focus on substance and we can focus on issues and the way we win this primary and the way we beat hillary clinton in november is we tell the truth a smile. >> absent from the super saturday state was marco rubio but di't stop supporters. >> he's strong on defense. he can bring the republican party together. but what's more important he can bring the nation together. side, polls show clinton with the big lead in louisiana which has a large number of african american voters and while the minority vote helped rack up the vot

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in the state of kansas ted cruz earlier tonight an easy victory in kansas. for cruz there and then another for cruz in the far northeast -- for cruz in the far northeastern part of the country, where he won the state of maine. so it's 2-1 at the moment with kentucky outstanding. >> let's bring in doug schoen and joe trippey who are with us tonight as well. one of the things, let me go to doug schoen on this. one of the things donald trump has said and is very true is even when he doesn't come in first he comes in second. and that has helped him to a serious delegate lead in this race so far. hard to argue it's not a very good night for donald trump as well. >> well, that's my sense, martha. i think kentucky will probably tighten further. i think as we sit here now donald has a slight advantage. but if i go to john weaver's memo, i think he's probably half right, that ted cruz doesn't have much of a base in the northeast, new york, new jersey, pennsylvania and california. the only way i can see him getting that constituency is having the establishment rally t

announcing that bernie sanders has won kansas. so that will be a lift for the sanders' campaign who is coming off a disappointing super tuesday performance, so he is trying to get momentum back. all of these states are small states, so the delegates are not a lot of delegates at play here. it's more ted cruz chocking up victories. ted cruz has six total state victories right now and he is already talking about how he thinks republican parties should coalesce around him as the main alternative to trump >>> thank you for that. moving to other news, to the greek macedonia border where the greek are considering declaring a state of emergency. an estimated 13,000 people are stop at the border. most are hoping to travel to germany. meanwhile e.u. representatives will meet turkish officials next week to find a solution. our correspondent has this report. >> reporter: it is a state of emergency in this area is, indeed, declared-- if it is declared, it will pave the way for funds to be released to improve the living conditions in this camp

won the republican caulks in kansas, he'll pick um 24 delegates in kansas.portional. donald trump gets 10%. that gets 10. trump still wins with 346, rubio 111, john kasich 28 delegates so far. that's what we have for you. let's go back to chris. >> wolf, very interesting there. cruz cutting trump's lead to under a hun-do. ron brownstein, does that make this super cruz day? >> until we see louisiana and kentucky it's too early. >> you say that every time. >> because it's true. i'm sorry but it is true. kansas is a state he should have won, maine is where he's going beyond, huckabee won. this question we've talked about all night, whether the advantage for cruz is caucus or closed, that will become more relevant. my colleague, david wasserman, points out that half of the delegates chosen between february 1st and march 31st are in open primaries. from that point on three-quarters of the delegates will be chose en in a closed system. if there is a problem for donald trump winning these closed events it will be a lot more consequential as you go later assuming he

what happened in kansas?ld trump was always in a disadvantageous position in kansas if you look historically at our state, in 2012, as you mentioned in an earlier segment, you had santorum beat romney and romney had pretty much wrapped it all up and still kansas voted for santorum. if you go back to 2008, huckabee beat mccain in kansas and mccain had pretty much wrapped it up. we have a history in our state of -- >> being stubborn. >> going against the front-runner, especially if the second choice person is more evangelical, too. that's been the pattern each time. so i wasn't surprised at all. i thought there was a chance trump by bringing people in and stuff, but it's also a closed caucus which makes it harder to bring in new voters. it was always going to be an uphill struggle for trump in kansas. >> if you could advise donald trump right now, every front-runner stumbles. jimmy carter stumbled in the '76 primaries, lost ten of them before he stabilized and got the nomination easily. michael dukakis lost to

democratic primaries in kansas, louisianna, and nebraska, and republcian primaries in kansas, kentucky, louisianna and maine. for your local election headquarters, lucas casey, local 5 news, we are iowa. stephanie: lucas, thanks. and he will be manning our local five web coverage all night. look for live streams from the candidates and results. it's all on our website, we are iowa dot com. jack/lam: cameras weren't allowed to record the whole meeting -- but you can imagine it was tense. the senate judiciary senator chuck grassley, met obama at the white about why they hearings on any possible supreme court nominee the president picks. grassley said afterward that about some other big issues, including the opioid epidemic and criminal justice reform. but they're sticking by their decision to not hold supreme court justice hearings. jack: grassley's said, quote, "we all know that considering a nomination in the middle of a heated presidential campaign is bad for the nominee, bad for the court, bad for the process, and ultimately bad for the nation." jack: the iowa democratic party sent o

he's got it with this win in kansas. the question is can he keep it going. bernie sanders fighting for a come back, today striking a note of determination. >> bernie, you think too big. your ideas are too grandiose. i don't think so. >> reporter: sanders could pull it off, already winning the kansas caucus, and hoping for a win in nebraska later tonight and maine tomorrow, states with large populations of white working class voters who favor his progressive message. >> well, if congress could bail out crooks on wall street, maybe wall street now can help the working families of this country. >> reporter: his strategy, according to top aides, have a strong showing this weekend to create bigger momentum heading into bigger states like michigan and ohio where he released this documentary-style ad in spanish, featuring farm workers. >> workers who have no rights. >> reporter: sanders's climb is steep, with clinton surging. tonight she's poised to take louisiana, where a majority of voters are african-american, a group that has fueled her surge in southern states

. >> republicans, ted cruz started off the night with a big, win, in kansas walking away with half of the vote in tonight' caucus, and a similar story in main, cruz taking the caucus, and in kentucky the votes are still being counted but it is looking like trump will be the winner there, so far he has more than 30 percent of the vote and trump also walks away with a win in louisiana. >> andow to the democrats, bernie sanders busted hillary and in kansas, rather, another sanders win with 70 percent of the vote there. sanders with a huge lead over clinton, but in louisiana clinton came out on top with the huge lead over sanders with 70 percent of the vote, the results did little to change the delegate map, clinton keeps her significant lead in the racfor the nomination. >> the super saturday, show down started offith a big win for senator, ted cruz, the republican swiping voters by a two to one margin in kansas and taking the state of maine. >> we are the only campaign that can and well, beat donald trump in this race. >> it was a super saturday, froro gyms and barns, snaked across loca

ted cruz 24 delegates available in kansas and where he is the projected winner, and in kansas bernieders according to the democratic party, he is the winner of the democratic caucus there. in kentucky donald trump, 42% of the vote, 26 delegates available. we are waiting the results of the vote in nebraska. polls closed about an hour ago, but no results yet. louisiana closing in two minutes. that's it from us. more news just ahead from doha. we will be back at 11 p.m. eastern, 8 p.m. pacific. transition process but there is an opportunity that exists. first of all to calm things down in the field, to make it as much as possible possible for the >>> this is al jazeera. hello. welcome to the al jazeera news hour live from our headquarters in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes, the race for the white house intensifies. the democratic and republican front runners try to extend their lead as more states choose their candidates. greek politicians consider a state of emergency, the build-up of refugees along the border with macedonia worsens with no end in

kansas, louisiana, maine and kentucky for republicans and kansas, louisiana d nebraska for democrats. 155 delegates at stake for the democrats. republican front nner donald trump made a last-minute decision to head to kansas and skip the annual conservative political tion conference right outside of washington. >> i wanted to be in kansas. i wanted to be here so badly so i was headed to another direction. i told the pilot, we're going to kansas. just get here. >> reporter: senator ted cruz >> we've had 15 primaries and caucuses so far. and have been able to win over and over and over again from the grass roots. we can focus on substance. we can focusoshes. and the way we win this primary and the way we beat hillary clinton in november is we tell the truth with a smile. >> reporter: absent was marco rubio and that didn't stop his supporters. >> and rco rubio supporter. strong arm defense and can bring the republican party together but what's more important he can bring the nation together. >> on the democratic side, polls show clinton with the big lead in louisiana which has a large nu

in addition, here in kansas, just before i toss it back to you, here in kansas, the state republican party actually is setting up a caucus location in st. louis. that's because the kansas city -- the wichita state basketball team, excuse me. the wichita state shockers are having a conference final in st. louis. so those basketball fans going out to support their team, they'll also be able to caucus. so it's a full-court press, so to speak for the caucus here in kansas. >> nbc's shaquille brewster reporting for us in wichita. we'll come back to you once the rally starts and listen to what some of donald trump has to say. so after that last-minute stop in kansas, trump will be heading on to florida, where he's trying to beat back home state senator, marco rubio. trump himself really no stranger to this state, with that ritzy estate he has over in palm beach. nbc's jacob rascon is in orlando, florida, where donald trump is going to be in just a few hours from now. jacob, it really appears that donald trump is not taking that lead in florida for granted with 99 delegates up for grabs. >>

ted cruz has won in kansas, he's won in maine.e now project donald trump is the winner in louisiana. this is an important win. the only primary contest of the night. all the other contests were caucuses. donald trump, the winner in louisiana. we're getting ready to hear from donald trump momentarily. he's over in west palm beach. we'll have live coverage of that. but this is what donald trump wanted. we're still waiting for kentucky but a big win for donald trump in louisiana. >> that's right. and as we had the earlier projections of the night from kansas and the caucuses where ted cruz has been doing well, this is a primary and this is a delegate-rich state. he's not going to get all of them because it's proportional but it keeps him in the game and keeps the narrative from continuing to be, ted cruz is doing well and there's a pause for donald trump. >> right. there's no doubt. although i do think ted cruz's victories tonight are going to foster that conversation about whether we are in a moment of the republican electorate reas

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he's already won the republican caucuses in kansas. republicans are also voting today for a presidential nominee in louisiana, kentucky, and maine, with a total of 155 delegates on the table. democrats are deciding in three states-- louisiana, kansas, and nebraska, with 109 delegation up for grabs. julianna goldman has the latest from our washington bureau. juliana. >> reporter: jim, tonight, is all about bragging rights. donald trump and donnell hill