WASHINGTON (AP) – Up next in the 2016 presidential race: Ohio, Florida, three other big states and a great deal of hyperventilation.
Let’s believe the polls for a minute: A big night Tuesday for Republican Donald Trump in Florida, crushing Marco Rubio’s presidential hopes. A drag-out fight in Ohio between Trump and John Kasich, the popular Ohio governor who hasn’t won anything in the primary season and rarely comes close. A strong night for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina and probably Florida. But can Bernie Sanders upset her in Ohio, Missouri or even her native Illinois, and keep rocking a Democratic race that remains tilted toward his opponent?
Let’s see what the voters do.
They haven’t always marched to the beat of horserace polling or the pundits in a campaign that resembles none other in modern times.
Will they bring clarity? Probably yes, if Trump broadly triumphs. Probably no, if he’s set back.