should mint hill mayor ted biggers join mathews and split from cms. >> i think it's a wonderful idea. i don't know if it will fly because of politics. >> reporter: the discussion stems from a student assignment review that could shift kids to different schools. john corbett moved to this schools. >> it would probably have a better impact on the education of the kids in this area. >> reporter: channel 9 has reported extensively on the debate including last week on a plan by matthews' mayor to separate from cms and form the school district with other local towns. i talked with mint hill mayor ted biggers on the phone who said he is considering it but wants to hear the final plan. >> i think it's premature to the point i haven't heard anyone from cms mentioning country. >> reporter: the mayor told channel 9 he'll have a strategy meeting oned in and talk with the mayor about the next step in the split. liz foster, channel 9 eyewitness news. funding and facilitys and the funding and facilitys lemme get a mcpick 2 check out the brand new mix onmcdonald's mcpick 2 menu! lemme get a mcpick 2.

ted cruz. >> the bigger probability is that they cannot win a general election. >> reporter: trump told cnn this morning if he is denied the nomination bad things would happen and his supporters would riot. >> this is another super tuesday for our campaign. >> reporter: hillary clinton who swept bernie sanders and all five states has her sights set on trump for november. >> our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrassed it. >> reporter: sanders isn't budging and predicted victory when primaries move west next tuesday, especially in arizona. >> we can make real change. >> reporter: chris clackum, nbc news. >>> turnout in north carolina in the primary was 35%. that is the same as 2012 and slightly lower than 2008. the last time the presidential race was wide open. wral capital bureau chief, laura leslie, has been looking take a look at the top races. >> reporter: it was yesterday, i should say. hillary clinton won the state 55% to bernie sanders who had 41%. if we look closer, we can see where those votes came in for these two. sorry about that, guys. there we go. thi

ted cruz. >> the bigger probability for either of these guys is they can't win a general election. >> reporter: trump told cnn this morning that if he's denied the nomination, bad things would happen and his supporters would riot. >> this is another super tuesday for our campaign. >> reporter: but hillary clinton, who swept bernie sanders in all five states, has set her sights on trump for november. >> our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it. >> reporter: sanders isn't budging, though, and predicted victory when primaries move west next tuesday, especially in arizona. >> we can make real change. >> reporter: chris clackum, nbc news. >> and our coverage of the presidential race continues on nbcbayarea.com. there you can get all of the results and check out what the candidates are saying as the race moves forward. >>> all new at 11:00, check this out. about 50 self-driving cars being tested outside of amsterdam this morning. mixing in with the regular folk, the regular traffic, the cars determine their own speed and distance to other cars. self-driving cars

we begin in texas, where everything is bigger, even its ted cruz edging out a victory in his home state, considered a must win to remain viable in this campaign. but the night still belongs to donald trump, with an impressive lead in states across the country tonight. a projected victory in vermont. also winning big in the south, in georgia, alabama, and tennessee. paula faris is at trump headquarters with the road ahead. paula? >> reporter: hi, juju. well, the trump camp is extremely happy. they say what really stood out to them, the number of first-time voters and crossover voters that voted for donald trump on super tuesday. what can't be lost in the significance of all of this is that this event, his campaign headquarters are in florida at the mara lago club which he owns. this is a state that votes exactly two weeks from today, a state where he has a commanding lead over marco rubio. remember, this is marco rubio's home state. so the fact that this was a big night for donald trump but he clearly has his eyes set on the next couple of weeks. >> paula, thanks. let's take a look at th

ted cruz had a bigger weekend at the polls. n, the biggest state up for grabs today, donald trump is out in front. ted cruz and john kasich have been inching up. marco rubio appears to be slipping some. we have sara murray with the latest from mississippi. >> reporter: donald trump was rallying a crowd of thousands in mississippi last night hours before voters in this state and three others head to the polls today. trump and his campaign made it clear mississippi and michigan are the top prizes today. as trump was talking to voters in mississippi, he had an eye on florida and taking swipes at marco rubio. >> then we have little marco rubio. i thought when we had chris christie endorse me. really good guy. he endorsed me two weeks ago. when chris was on the stage, chris is the governor of new jersey, but former prosecutor and tough cookie. i thought honestly marco was going to faint. he was choking like a dog. he was pouring down sweat. chris hit him once and he was fine. he said the obama thing. remember the phrase. he did it ag

so, ted cruz picks up some votes there to make up the difference statewide, he'll need a bigger margin. ted cruz would have to pop up in jefferson county as well. let's watch them come in. we're up to 52%. when louisville comes in, that will jump up quite a bit. most of the other stuff is pretty small. pulaski county, more than half of the state population. when the louisville area comes in, we'll have a much better sense whether trump can hold on to the lead. >> it's the last contest we're awaiting results on. right now 52% of the vote is in, trump is ahead. cruz has won kansas, cruz won maine. earlier, donald trump won louisiana. we're waiting for kentucky. we're also waiting to hear from donald trump. we'll have live coverage of his remarks. that's coming up. someone's hacked all our technology... say, have you seen all the amazing technology in geico's mobile app? mobile app? look. electronic id cards, emergency roadside service, i can even submit a claim. wow... yep, geico's mobile app works like a charm. geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. isn't it time to let the r

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this is a chance for republican donald trump to take a bigger delegate lead over his closest competitor, ted cruz. they are currently separated by less than 100 delegates. this democrat bernie sanders to prove he can beat hillary clinton in a key state like michigan. however the polls show clinton with a 17-point advantage. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg says he will not run for president. after months of considering a presidential bid as an independent, the billionaire media mogal said a third party candidate could lead to a deadlock in the electoral college. bloomberg said that could lead to the election of candidates donald trump or ted cruz. now to the renewed contoversy over hillary clinton's e-mails. this morning, several senate lawmakers are renewing their request to question the state department staffer who helped set up clinton's private e-mail account. republicans want bryan pagliano to appear to discuss the server. pagliano has previously invoked his 5th amendment right in declining to answer any questions. last week, the justice department granted pagliano immunity

these are places that donald trump is at a much bigger advantage than ted cruz. so i think they're going to wake up and say trump's the guy. do we want trump or hillary clinton. >> do you agree? >> i think there's an establishment part here that does not like cruz, but there are plenty of conservatives that are happy to take cruz over trump. the other thing is when you're talking about kasich staying in and maybe grabbing ohio and rubio having a chance at florida, i think cruz shoots himself in the foot by competing in florida because if you lose those big winner take all states and they go to trump, his percentage he has to get in those states that are not as good for him goes up. you can keep it lower -- >> you think that cruz is really the only alternative on the republican side now to donald trump? >> it certainly looks like it. cruz is a cold calculating killer. ordinarily -- look at this guy. >> in the sweetest way possible. >> politically speaking you look at a kasich, you look at a rubio and you think to yourself give them a little bit of oxygen. no. he s

we begeg in texas, where everything is bigger, even its tsize role in polilili. ted cruz edging out a victory in his home state, considered a mustin to remain viae in this campaign. buut the n)ght still bebengngng donald tru, with aimpressive lead in states across th country tonight. a projecd victory in vernt. also wininin bn soso in g grgia, alabamamndnd tennessee. paula faris is at trump headquarteteteith throad ahea paula? >> reporter: hi, jujuj well, the trump mp is they say wt really stood o o them, the number of voters that voted r donald trtrp on super tuesday. what can't be lostn the gnifican of all of this is @ that this event, hisampaign hequters are in flfla at the mar-a-lago club, which he owns. is is a state that votes exactly two weeks from today, a lever marco rubibi rememberthik is mao rubio's home state. night for donald tmp but h clearly has his eyes set on the e next couple of wee. >> paulathanks. let't'take a aook at theumbers tonight. donaldldru also projecd to win in virginia as well as massachusetts. a round of c cshing losses, thgh, for marco

that's why i have much bigger crowds than ted, because we have a good time at mine. but we're all having a good time and the next day on the "today" show and a couple of other place, not too many, they had still pictures of people and they tried to equate it to nazi, germany. it is a disgrace. it was a total disgrace. and i've had reporters, people that you know, come up to me and said that -- what they did on the "today" show was a disgrace. >> governor kasich, do you worry about the scenes of violence at some of these rallies affecting the republican party's chances in november? >> i worry about rally violence period. elections are important but the unity of this country really matters. jake, here's what i think is happening. there are people out there who are worried about their jobs. they're worried somebody is going to come in and tell this many they're out of work and they're 54 years old and they don't know where they're going to get another job, a man and a woman. maybe they're worried about a trade deal, worried that their wages haven't gone up. they're worr

louisiana is a bigger test for ted cruz. 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, kas

the problem with ted is that he'll never get anything done. bigger problem it's impossible for him to get elected. he's very strident. he'll never win states that you have to win. he can't. because of his views on things. and i actually happen to be very conservative except some people say on trade i'm not because i'm not a free trader but as i told you before i am a free trader but fair trade now. smart trade. it's not going to be stupid trade. what we have in our country now is stupid trade and all you have to do is look at what they are doing to us with your previous report. just take a look at that and you'll understand exactly because that's all about how do we get more business, how do we suck more blood out of the united states. >> donald, i know you want to bring people together but i wonder if you can react to this quote from mayor bloomberg. you had him on "the apprentice" twice. he said you have run the most divisive and demagogue presidential campaign playing on people's prejudice and fears. you said obama and others have been divisive. h

ted cruz. kasich follows in third. trump with a slightly bigger victory over cruz in illinois. it's interesting to note voting was spuntuspended in parts of t state for the tornado threat. and trump is an apparent win in missouri with cruz less than 2,000 votes separating the two. it was a clean sweep for hillary clinton. she dominated in florida. nearly doubling the amount of votes bernie sanders received. clinton had a surprise victory in ohio which is a setback for sanders who predicted victory in the state. clinton won handily in north carolina. 121 delegates up for grabs there. for much of the race, the race in illinois was too close to call, but clinton is now the apparent winner. and a similar story in missouri where clinton narrowly edged out sanders by roughly 1,500 votes. in her victory speech, clinton pivoted to the general election and upped her attacks against trump. >> we are moving closer to securing the democratic party nomination and winning this election in november. when we hear a candidate for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrants, banning all

think this incident is revealing a bigger problem, one that has been talked about before, but now there's video proof. >> well, sam and kris, that's exactly what senator ted cruz says. he says, this is a bigger problem within the trump campaign. now, it also created a lot of heated moments at the town hall that happened yesterday in wisconsin. there were a lot of accusations and explanations as republican candidates tried to convince wisconsin voters to choose them. a defiant trump defended his campaign manager, cory lewandowski, in the wake of the battery charges filed against him. trump says he will not fire lewandowski, even though the security camera video shows him grabbing a reporter at a campaign event march 8th in southern florida. now, ted cruz, fresh off an endorsement from governor scott walker of wisconsin, says that this incident shows that there's a greater problem within the trump campaign, that is a culture of abuse in that campaign, he says. now, even the democratic presidential hopeful, hillary clinton, applauded the reporter for following through on the incident. now, wisconsin has 42 delegates in a winner-take-all primary. there have b

ted cruz? >> well, if you look who sykes reported, there is something to that. scott walker is more of a conservative than kasich. i would probably go in that direction. this goes to a bigger for ted cruz. there aren't a lot of plays left here as he is chasing donald trump. he has a much more difficult fight in order to get to the map he needs in this race. it is simple. he has to outtough trump supporters to try to say, look, the guy is not conservative. he is a fraud. if you want someone to break up the international system, foreign policy and all the rest because don't forget cruz is out there on some of the things he said. veiling muslims and so forth. he has to disqualify them in that way. or say the rest party, he has huge negatives. he will be a huge liability to congress, co keeping the senate and the house and so forth and trying to consolidate the rest. it is one of those two ways he has to establish in wisconsin. >> we will talk more about this throughout the program. thanks so much for giving us that background. tonight ted cruz, john kasich and donald trump take part in a town hall. that means real questions from real voters. >> you really don't want to miss t

bigger. republican side, early results, this is what ted cruz needs.frey lord was saying why is a win at home a big deal? at least gives him rationale to stay in the race. we'll wait and see as this fills in. >> take a look at neighboring oklahoma. >> oklahoma has been an interesting race throughout the night on the republican side. look at this, 11% of the vote. tug-of-war mostly between trump and cruz at the moment. rubio a distant third right now. you got trump winning in the urban area of tulsa, the suburbs around where you find most of your republican voters. a lot of republicans across oklahoma. trump as we've seen in every stats state here a competition with rubio. oklahoma city, suburbs, rubio with a lead. this is honest to god tug-of-war in the state. 12%. we have a lot of votes to count. on the democratic side, take a quick look, this was one of bernie sanders' big targets. he's holding up the lead with 12% of the vote in. wait on this one. look at where the population centers are, more votes where the people live, secretary clinton is winnin

ted cruz opposes abortion, including rape and incest. we talk about actual attacks on women, you know, tweets about your wife are terrible, but i think that we should talk about some biggerlisten to one more thing ted cruz said about this this afternoon. >> the reason why republicans are coming together and uniting is because donald trump is a train wreck. he hands the election to hillary clinton. donald trump is a gift wrapped in a pink little bow for the democratic party. >> and beth, that's his final word on it so far. we'll see how it goes. >> he is pretty much right. train wreck, that's a good term actual actually. >>> thank you. we really appreciate. before we go, we have some breaking news from paris. france's interior minister says raids in northwest paris have just foiled a paris attack. france says no known links between the thwarted plot and brussels at this stage. chuck todd will be back here tomorrow, at 5:00 p.m. eastern, with "mtp daily," tonight, i'll be on with the last word, as usual. "with all due respect" starts right now. >>> i'm john helemann. >> i'm mark halperin. with all due respect for ted cruz and donald trump, save it for the convention, fella

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 saw that ted cruz is good at organization and see if he can put together those ten offices to something for him. >> i want to bring in steve hays, fox news contributor out of washington an

ted cruz. kasich follows in third. similar results in illinois, trump with a slightly bigger victory over cruz with kasich next. it's interesting to note though voting was suspended in parts of the state due to a tornado threat. and trump is also the parent winner in missouri with cruz less than 2,000 votes separate the two. it was a clean sweep for hillary clinton. she dominated in florida, nearly doubling the votes sanders received. and a surprise victory in ohio and sanders predicted a victory in that state. and north carolina won hand udly in north carolina. and the case in illinois was too close to call but clinton is now the parent winner and a similar story in missouri with clinton roughly 1500 votes and clinton riv pivoted towards the general election and upped her attacks towards trump. >> we are moving closer to securing the democratic party nomination and winning this election in november. [ applause ] when we hear a candidate for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrants, banning all muslims from entering the united states [ crowd boos] >> when he embraces tofr rture, it doesn't make him

ted cruz or marco rubio? as weakened as rubio is, he's still a bigger threat than cruz. trump says get rubio out, let me beat kasich in ohio and have a one on one race with ted cruz. trump feels like he's stronger in the industrial midwest, because of the crossover vote and because of independents. i think -- >> he thinks cruz's states are out the way now. >> it seems if trump wanted to run a tough campaign, you gave him one job and he didn't show up. >> if trump wins two of three, ohio, michigan, and florida, i think the race is pretty much over. if he can get the florida senator out of the race. i think you are underestimating what ted cruz with money can do against trump. i think trump sees the possibility of ending this thing a week from tuesday. and is looking to do that. if he listened to advice, i think people would be telling him that your performance this week at the debate was not helpful. >> look, he came into this night, there was an assumption that donald trump would win kentucky easily. that's what the polling said. and that he would win louisiana easily. we

that debate performance going after trump that he would put some bigger numbers on the board but really trailing in the delegate count. ted cruz had more wins tonight but this was supposed to be his southern firewall. this super tuesday was supposed to be built for ted cruz and he had picked up wins in some states but not states necessarily that people were expecting and that gives donald trump a strong argument going forward that he is the guy who is bringing the party together, turning out first-time voters. this is going to be a crazy two weeks where we basically see all of the cruz and rubio allies dumping every piece of oppo that they have on donald trump, and in the end that really just may help hillary clinton. >> ted cruz last night calling on supporters, calling everyone to unite, to defeat donald trump. let's listen to that sound. >> together we have a choice. we are blessed with a deep talented honorable field. for the candidates who have not yet won a state, who have not racked up significant delegates. i ask you to prayerfully consider our coming together. uniting. >> this is before he won minnesota. joshrogi

as many delegates to award democrats as republicans and a reason why this is a bigger prize for republicans. donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich answer voters' questions at a town hall in milwaukee tomorrow. they're vying for 42 delegates in wisconsin next week. it's winner take all and, like cruz, kasich is now backing off his pledge to support donald trump if trump wins the nomination. >> we're going to look at it every single day and we'll see what happens when we got a long way to go and i don't want to project that he's going to be the nominee. >> reporter: trump and cruz are still trading personal attacks. the latest, cruz insists trump planted this tabloid story accusing cruz of extra marital affairs. >> this story is garbage. it is tabloid smear and it came from donald trump. >> for him to say i had to do it to try to put the shoe on the other foot is disgraceful. >> reporter: bernie sanders appears to be off the campaign trail today after winning washington state, alaska and hawaii last weekend. pressed on whether he'd support hillary clinton's nominee. >> too early to talk about that. right now w