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Donald Trump Defeats Marco Rubio in Virginia Republican Primary

Donald J. Trump, left, waves to supporters on caucus night in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 24, 2016, while Florida Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to supporters at a S.C. rally. (Photos: Getty Images)

Donald Trump has won the Virginia Republican primary, while Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will finish in a relatively close second place, PPD projects. Turnout in central and western Virginia, where working-class white voters, who were previously reliable Democrats, came out heavy for the billionaire businessman.

“For all the talk about who is the real conservative in the race, that is, Sen. Rubio claiming Mr. Trump is not, all the senator’s votes came from liberal Democrat neighborhoods while The Donald trounced him in conservative counties,” said PPD’s senior political analyst Richard Baris. “The D.C. establishment and lobbyist-dependent counties clearly picked their man. But the margins and sheer turnout for Trump in the rest of the state was just too much.”

Mr. Trump also won the Super Tuesday Republican primaries in Alabama, Massachusetts and Tennessee. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who spent the last week in his home state, appears to have a lead in The Lone Star State. If Rubio doesn’t pull above 18% of the vote, he will not be awarded a single delegate in the largest proportional prize of the night.

Candidate Popular
Vote
Delegate Votes
Soft
Pledged
Soft
Unpledged
Soft
Total
Hard Total
Trump, Donald John, Sr. 326,340  35.27%        
Rubio, Marco A. 292,023  31.56%        
Cruz, Rafael Edward “Ted” 157,468  17.02%        
Kasich, John Richard 83,882   9.06%        
Carson, Benjamin Solomon “Ben”, Sr. 55,144   5.96%        
Bush, John Ellis “Jeb” 3,051   0.33%        
Paul, Randal H. “Rand” 2,637   0.28%        
Huckabee, Michael Dale “Mike” 1,404   0.15%        
Christie, Christopher James “Chris” 929   0.10%        
Gilmore, James Stuart “Jim”, III 839   0.09%        
Fiorina, Carleton Sneed “Carly” 771   0.08%        
Santorum, Richard John “Rick” 449   0.05%        
Graham, Lindsey Olin 439   0.05%        
(available)   49 100.00%   49 100.00% 49 100.00%
Total 925,376 100.00% 49 100.00%   49 100.00% 49 100.00%

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Led by R. D. Baris, the People's Pundit, the PPD Elections Staff conducts polling and covers news about latest polls, election results and election data.

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