GOP and Democratic Caucuses

This archived article was written by: Alex Holt

Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night! Last November, Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential candidate hosted the famous late night television show despite protests from many Americans.
Since then, Donald Trump has only gotten stronger in his campaign, with fellow Marco Rubio dropping out of the race, leaving only Cruz, Carson, and Kasich to fight Trump.
Hillary Clinton is also drastically leading the primaries on the Democratic side of things against Bernie Sanders winning Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, and Florida on March 15th, while Sanders didn’t win anything.
It seems that the primaries are quickly becoming a comedy sketch much like the ones shown on Saturday Night Live. In fact, SNL is known for portraying the candidates in funny entertaining ways, and sometimes even has political figures on the show including Clinton, Trump, Palin, Obama, and McCain.
On March 22, Utah, Arizona, and Idaho all had their primaries and things pretty much turned out as predicted.
In Arizona, Clinton won 57% of the vote to Sander’s 40%, thus allowing Clinton to win the state and get 44 delegates while Sanders only got 30. Trump won Arizona outright with 47% of the vote and all the state’s 58 delegates.
While Clinton and Trump won Arizona, the other two states up for grabs- Utah fell to Sanders and Cruz not surprisingly as the two state’s high LDS population contributed to their wins.
Cruz took all of Utah’s 40 delegates with 69% of the vote; Sanders on the other hand took 78% o Idaho’s and 80% of Utah votes taking 43 delegates total from both states.
Clinton took only 5 delegates from Idaho and Utah. But she still is in lead across the nation, so Bernie has some catching up to do.
We are already half way through the primaries and on to the parties’ conventions in July when will finally get a nominee from each party. But it looks like Clinton and Trump already have won.
Let’s just hope that this entire election is a prank from NBC’s Saturday Night Live, so we can get to the actual election.