Washington DC, March 05th 2016 (CPAC, 2016). The Conservatives convened for the American Conservative Union’s annual four-day Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. In addition to panel discussions on conservative issues, many speakers are on hand at this year’s conference, including Ben Carson, John Kasich, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Donald Trump was due to speak but dropped out at the last minute.
US Senator Ted Cruz struck first in a handful of presidential nomination contests, decisively winning Kansas and Maine, and boosting his claim as the most viable alternative to billionaire frontrunner Donald Trump. On the Democratic side, it was Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist, who claimed the first two victories, in Kansas and Nebraska. But Hillary Clinton bounced back to easily win Louisiana, seen as the weekend's big prize.
For Republicans, the Saturday races provide the first tests of whether the establishment's desperate effort to halt Trump, led this week by 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, is having any effect on voters.
The brash real estate mogul Trump is ahead in the all-important delegate count for the Republicans, having won 10 of the 17 states that have now voted in the process that determines the nominees for both parties. But Cruz's wins are a reminder that while Trump still appears to be the likely nominee, it is by no means inevitable.
The conservative senator performed beyond expectations in Kansas, where he earned 48.2 percent of the vote, doubling up on Trump who received 23.3 percent. Senator Marco Rubio was third at 16.7, followed by Ohio Governor John Kasich with 10.7 percent. In Maine, it was a startling result for the arch-conservative Cruz in the more moderate New England region. The centrist candidate Romney won Maine caucuses twice, in 2012 and 2008.
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