Bush camp confirms two meetings,one with Marco Rubio today and another with Ted Cruz and John Kasich on Thursday, but remains mum on detailsFull report: Sanders takes Michigan primary from Clinton in stunning winTrump’s victories in Mississippi and Michigan place him back on courseThomas Frank: Millions of ordinary Americans support Trump. Here’s why 11.03pm GMTIt’s been a satisfactory season for candidates who can channel the anger of the electorate and we saw that again on Tuesday night, and when exit polls continued to turn up in favor of Donald Trump,while Bernie Sanders pulled off a surprise victory in Michigan.
The victories for Trump and Sanders come after a week when both men’s chances were being played down. Sanders’ campaign had been all but left for dead after he failed to make meaningful inroads with minority voters on Super Tuesday. Trump faced attacks from the party establishment (most notably Mitt Romney) and scorn from the media establishment for his habit of asking people to raise their hands and pledge allegiance to him at rallies, something Cruz quickly seized upon. “We’ve had seven years of a president who thinks he’s an emperor, and ” he quipped. Related: Clinton is in danger of seizing up in Rust Belt after Michigan result 10.39pm GMTFormer secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders are assembly tonight for their fourth one-on-one debate,and their moment in less than a week. Coming on the heels of an embarrassing defeat in Michigan for Clinton (and a correlative win for Sanders) and less than a week before major primaries in Ohio and Florida, tonight’s debate will feature a resurgent Sanders and a defensive Clinton - a dynamic we haven’t seen on the debate stage since after Clinton’s massive win in South Carolina.
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