March 19, 2016 -  The voters on Tuesday March 15 made it clear that New York Businessman Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are in the fast lane now to secure their respective parties presidential nominations.

Trump took the biggest prize on Tuesday of Florida with 99 delegates. With his other wins that day in North Carolina and Illinois, Trump now has 678 delegates to 423 for Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and the the other remaining Republican presidential hopeful Ohio Governor John Kasich with 143. Kasich avoided sure elimination from the presidential race when he was able to win his home state of Ohio, which marks his first win of the primary season. The reality for Cruz and Kasich now is that if delegates were campaign buttons , Trump would  have a heck of lot more campaign buttons than either of his challengers.

On the Democratic side, Clinton went five for five on Tuesday winning the primaries in Florida , North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. Clinton now has 1,614 delegates to 856 for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Next up on the primary schedule is the Arizona primary on March 22. The most recent polling on Arizona has shown both Trump and Clinton leading.