MA 2016 Republican Super Tuesday Full Results: Trump Wins Primary

BOSTON, MA - A high-turnout Super Tuesday election in Massachusetts has delivered a crushing Donald Trump victory, with potentially historic numbers of voter participation statewide.

Five minutes after polls closed, the Associated Press called the state for the New York businessman. CNN exit polls suggest Massachusetts follows a national trend, with a third of voters identifying as angry. CNN also shows Trump winning support on nearly every issue, from the economy to government spending, with special emphasis (a margin of more than 70 percent) on the issue of immigration.

Polls here last week predicted Trump's biggest margin of victory yet, and he seems primed to secure that margin.

Final results (not yet certified)

• Donald Trump: 49%
• John Kasich: 18.1%
• Marco Rubio: 17.9%
• Ted Cruz: 9.6%
• Ben Carson: 2.6%

Trump had secured that nearly 30-point margin of victory as early as 10 p.m. on Super Tuesday. His far-off competitors, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, both barely put up a fight, virtually tying with roughly 18 percent of the vote apiece and 97 percent of precincts reporting.

This despite the fact that Trump did not immediately condemn an endorsement from a Ku Klux Klan leader this weekend. House Republican leadership issued a thinly veiled rebuke Tuesday morning, while assuring they will support whoever wins the nomination.

Trump's public spat with the Pope also apparently did not dent his support in this traditional Catholic stronghold. CNN's exit poll puts Trump at 52 percent support among voters who identify as Catholic.

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The Donald thanked supporters here, as well as those in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, via tweet:

In a victory speech at Miami's Mar-a-Lago Club, Trump derided Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's "campaign to make America whole again," and depicted "little senator" Rubio as campaign donors' puppet.

View from the polls

Voting started at 7 a.m. and polls close at 8 p.m. Secretary of State Bill Galvin has said he expects a potentially record-breaking turnout at the polls Tuesday. In a radio interview, he attributed that interest to the high-energy Republican primary.

Boston has been used to gauge voter turnout statewide. If it's any indication this time around, the state is on pace to surpass the 2008 primary election record, with more than 120,000 votes cast as of 7:00 p.m.

Of the state’s 4.3 million enrolled voters, almost 2.3 million are unenrolled in a party, meaning they could vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary. Polls show New York businessman Donald Trump with a significant lead in the state, which independent voters could easily solidify.

Galvin told reporters many Democrats have left the party to become unenrolled (or even switch to a Republican voting designation) in the days before the primary.

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