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Five more states including Louisiana and Kansas began voting Saturday in the hotly contested White House primary race, with Republican challengers like Marco Rubio desperate to cut into frontrunner Donald Trump's lead. The brash billionaire is ahead in the all-important delegate count for the Republicans, having won 10 of the 15 states that have voted to date in the process that determines the nominees for both parties.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is well ahead of rival Senator Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, hoping to expand her lead as she inches closer to securing the nomination. Clinton and Sanders do battle Saturday in Kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska, while the Republicans are contesting Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine. The GOP race has been winnowed down to four candidates - the political outsider Trump, Florida's Rubio, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich - with many in the Republican establishment in virtual panic over whether one of the challengers can stop Trump's march to the nomination.
Saturday's races are wedged in between far more consequential contests: the dozen states that voted on "Super Tuesday" March 1, and the big states like Florida and Ohio on March 15, when the Republican races become winner-take-all affairs. Trump made waves when he cancelled a scheduled Saturday morning appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, opting instead to hold a rally in Wichita, Kansas. The move angered members of the American Conservative Union which hosts CPAC.
"I think it was a big mistake for Donald Trump not to be here," ACU chairman Matt Schlapp told CNN. Earlier his group said the absence "sends a clear message to conservatives." Trump told the Wichita crowd that Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, was a "loser" who should have defeated President Barack Obama. Romney earlier this week lambasted Trump as unfit to be president, calling him a "phony" and "a fraud." Trump shot back Saturday saying: "It's the establishment. The establishment is against us." "We're going to change things so badly and so quickly, it's going to go so fast, and you're going to be so proud."

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2016

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