What Twitter Is Saying About the Latest Primary and Caucus Results
The instant spin room.
After a brief intermission, the primaries are back. Tuesday night, Republicans and Democrats will vote and caucus in contests in Arizona and Utah. Democrats will also caucus in Idaho. The polling is sparse, but the numbers we have suggest that Donald Trump will win Arizona and Ted Cruz will win Utah. The exact breakdown in Utah will matter: If Cruz wins a majority, he’ll get all of the state’s delegates, but if he wins only a plurality, the delegates will be split proportionally, with many going to Trump. Cruz is currently polling at 50 percent.
Hillary Clinton has a solid lead over Bernie Sanders in Arizona. The two Democratic candidates are neck and neck in Utah, and we know very little about Idaho. As Josh Voorhees observes, Sanders could win two out of these three contests and still receive fewer delegates tonight than Hillary. At this point, she’s the presumptive nominee. (Sorry.)
You can watch the spin in real time as the results trickle in. Below are live tweets drawn from a list of top accounts curated by Slate. You’ll see left-leaning commentators on the left and right-leaning commentators on the right. Let the spin begin!