About Kristin Roberts
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.
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More on Super Tuesday, we're joined now by Kristin Roberts in Washington DC. She's a national editor at the news website Politico. Thank you very much for joining us. We just want to know, for our viewers who aren't very familiar with United States politics, what will the Super Tuesday results mean to either party?
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Kristin Roberts0:24
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. The most famous names among them, as I'm sure all of your viewers know, are Donald Trump on the Republican side and Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side. And after tonight's results, we're likely to see the two of them 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.
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Host0:56
Okay, what about Cruz and Rubio? We could just focus on them for a moment. How important is it for them to show a strong showing this time around?
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Kristin Roberts1:08
It's critical, 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. For Ted Cruz, he 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 very strong support in the south, because the south looks so much like his home state of Texas. But 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. Now 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.
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Host1:58
Okay let's flip over to the Democratic side now. It's such an important day for Bernie Sanders. How important is it for him this Tuesday to stay in the election?
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Kristin Roberts2:13
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 him, then he's going to be having a very bad night in terms of the delegate count. She is very far ahead of him, and for him 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, and she will begin to start talking about the contest against the Republicans, not the contest against Bernie Sanders.
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Host2:52
Okay, essentially trying to present it as a fait accompli. Kristin Roberts in Washington DC, thank you for the analysis.
