With nearly all the votes counted in the five states that held primaries on Tuesday night, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stepped even closer to securing their parties’ respective nominations.
The former Secretary of State won every contest on the Democratic side, pulling ahead by wide margins in Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio. She squeaked by her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), in Illinois, and is clinging to a two-tenths of a point lead in Missouri with 99% of precincts reporting in the state.
Sanders’ momentum from a shocking Michigan win last week appears to be spent, and his delegate deficit to the front-runner is rapidly becoming insurmountable. Clinton was up more than 200 delegates heading into Tuesday. According to the New York Times, she expanded that lead, nabbing 326 of the 546 delegates up for grabs.
“We are moving closer to securing the Democratic Party nomination and winning this election in November,” she boomed in a speech to supporters in West Palm Beach after the polls closed.
Sanders, meanwhile, held a campaign event Tuesday night in Arizona, which hosts a primary next week. Despite his odds looking longer than ever before, he continued to hammer Clinton on her previous support of free trade deals and her use of a Super PAC.
On the GOP side, businessman Donald Trump goose-stepped forward, with only one blemish on the night.
His major victory came in Florida, where he trounced the field by nearly 20 points, and put an end to Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) bid for the White House. “While we are on the right side, this year, we will not be on the winning side,” Rubio told a downbeat crowd Tuesday night.
Rubio’s departure leaves one establishment-friendly pick left in the Republican race: Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio). Kasich pulled off a big win in his home state, besting Trump 47-36 percent in the Ohio Primary to keep his presidential hopes alive—mainly in the form of winning a contested GOP convention in Cleveland, in July.
It could, however, be too little too late.
Trump steamrolled the field in Illinois and North Carolina. And in Missouri, where 99% of the vote is in, he is holding on to a razor-thin lead over Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). The business mogul took home well over half of the GOP delegates up for grabs, increasing the likelihood that he can score the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the party’s nomination at the convention.
Speaking on CNN Wednesday morning, Trump predicted what might happen if the GOP establishment moved to bock him as the nominee, despite having a large delegate lead.
“I think you’d have riots,” he said.
