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US election 2016: Super Tuesday, as it happened

Welcome to the Spectator Super Tuesday live blog.  Jeremy Lott, Mat Vaillancourt and the Spectator’s Freddy Gray will be providing updates through the evening.  05.03 FG: Trump squeaks it in Vermont. Seven out of 10, with Alaska still to come. 04.37 FG: Bernie Sanders’s night is getting better as it goes on. He’s won four states now: Vermont, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Oklahoma. This just shows Hillary’s enduring weakness. 04.22 FG: MARCO HAS WON A STATE! Breakout the moderate confetti! Still not a primary, though, strictly speaking … 04.12 JL:  Donald Trump said in his Super Tuesday victory remarks that he had watched Hillary Clinton’s speech before coming on. He confessed that he didn’t quite get it. “Making America great again,” his campaign slogan, is going to be much better than ‘making America whole again,'” whatever that is, he said. He had some kind words for Ted Cruz who “at least won a little bit” and nothing nice to say about Marco Rubio who “is a lightweight” and a loser (though at press time, Rubio could still pull out a win in Minnesota).

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