By Jim Ellis
March 23, 2016 — There were no close results last night in the western states’ primaries and caucuses. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton easily won their respective Arizona primary events. Trump captured the Grand Canyon State’s 58 Winner-Take-All delegates.
Sen. Ted Cruz notched his biggest triumph of the campaign in Utah, with what appears to be a 70 percent total once all of the latest caucus votes are finally tabulated. Scoring a majority entitled him to all 40 Utah delegates, thus creating a backdoor Winner-Take-All victory.
Utah’s significance in shutting out Trump means the campaign leader’s road to a first ballot victory (1,237 delegate votes) became that much tougher.
Below are the latest unofficial delegate results:
REPUBLICANS
| CANDIDATE | ESTIMATED DELEGATE COUNT |
| Donald Trump | 755 |
| Ted Cruz | 466 |
| Marco Rubio | 174 (out) |
| John Kasich | 144 |
| Others | 15 |
| Uncommitted | 31 |
| Needed to win: 1,237 | Remaining: 885 |
Delegate Count Source: Unofficial — The Green Papers website
DEMOCRATS
Though Sen. Bernie Sanders scored his two most impressive victories of the entire campaign last night in the Utah and Idaho Democratic caucuses – almost reaching 80 percent in both places — his performance barely dented former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s huge lead in delegate votes.
For her part, Ms. Clinton recorded 58-40 percent win in Tuesday’s Arizona primary.
| CANDIDATE | REGULAR DELEGATES | SUPER DELEGATES |
| Hillary Clinton | 1,214 | 467 |
| Bernie Sanders | 901 | 26 |
Total Clinton: 1,681
Total Sanders: 927
Needed to win: 2,383
Delegate Count Source: Unofficial — The Green Papers website
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