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Search every verified Kristin Roberts interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a September 2016 interview with Politico, Kristin Roberts, then the national editor at Politico, discussed the potential outcomes of Super Tuesday in the U.S. presidential primaries. Roberts said that the results would shape the race, predicting that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would emerge with solid leads. She described Marco Rubio as likely to have won nothing after 16 contests and stated that Ted Cruz was expected to lose to Trump across the South except in Texas, based on polling. On the Democratic side, Roberts said Bernie Sanders would need to win four or five states, including Massachusetts, to remain viable, and that Hillary Clinton was likely to come out of Super Tuesday as the presumptive nominee, focusing on the general election rather than the primary.
“The Super Tuesday results are really going to shape up this race right now we have three people really vying for the Republican nomination actually five but three for real and two on the Democratic side.”
“After tonight's results we're likely to see Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton very much in a solid lead now that doesn't mean that the other candidates are going to drop out of this race in fact they are highly unlikely to do so.”
“It's critical for Cruz and Rubio to show a strong showing this round because if they don't do something today then there's really very little reason for either of them to argue that they should remain in this race.”
“Ted Cruz set up Super Tuesday as the most important day on the calendar for him; it's most of the southern states of America and he has theoretically very strong support in the south because the south looks so much like his home state of Texas.”
“If the polls are to be believed and the polls have been correct so far this cycle Ted Cruz is likely to lose to Donald Trump across the entire south with the exception of his home state of Texas.”
“Marco Rubio will probably come out of tonight having won nothing and what that means is Marco Rubio has now gone through 16 contests with no wins.”
“Bernie Sanders wants to win four maybe five of these states; it's going to be important for him symbolically to win Massachusetts.”
“If Hillary Clinton can take Massachusetts from Bernie Sanders then he's going to be having a very bad night in terms of the delegate count; she is very far ahead of him.”
“For Bernie Sanders to be able to stay in this race he's going to need to show that he remains viable; in any case it's very hard for us to see how Hillary Clinton doesn't come out of Super Tuesday feeling like the presumptive nominee.”
“Hillary Clinton will begin to start talking about the contest against the Republicans not the contest against Bernie Sanders, essentially trying to present it as a fait accompli.”
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