Cruz, Sanders win state caucuses on Saturday
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was not the front-runner in Kansas’ Republican presidential caucus this past Saturday.
Nor was presumptive Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton in the state’s caucus for that party.
Instead, Kansas voters chose Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, respectively, as their parties’ favorites for the White House.
Cruz, a U.S. Senator from Texas, took victories in Kansas and Maine on Saturday, making an emphatic case for being the GOP’s alternative to Trump. Despite fierce opposition from within the Republican Party, Trump still maintains his status as the party’s front-runner.
Cruz earned more than double the votes cast for Trump, it was reported. Marco Rubio, a U.S. Senator from Florida, came in third.
On the Democratic side, Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, earned more votes that Clinton in Kansas and also defeated the former Secretary of State in Nebraska. Clinton scored her sole victory of the day with a win in Louisiana but holds a commanding lead in the current delegate count.
Locally, Jackson County Republicans went to Effingham for their party’s caucus, while the county’s Democrats went to Atchison for the Democratic caucus. More results from those caucuses will be printed in Wednesday’s Holton Recorder.