WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign, with primaries in five states Tuesday and Republican front-runner Donald Trump trying to move closer to nailing down his party's nomination (all times Eastern Standard Time):
9:00 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is declaring that she is moving closer to the Democratic nomination after three early states wins on Tuesday.
Clinton won the presidential primaries in Florida, Ohio and North Carolina, widening her significant delegate lead over rival Bernie Sanders.
Clinton celebrated in Florida with supporters, declaring it "another super Tuesday for our campaign" and said it was another step closer to winning the White House.
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8:55 p.m.
The delegate lead for Hillary Clinton continues to grow thanks to a big win in North Carolina.
With 107 delegates at stake, she will win at least 56. Sanders will gain at least 24.
That means for the night Clinton has earned at least 175 delegates so far, having also won Florida. Sanders will win at least 73.
In all, 691 delegates are up for grabs in five states.
Including superdelegates, the lead is bigger. Clinton now has a total of at least 1,410, while Sanders has at least 653. It takes 2,383 to win.
Still to come: results in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois.
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8:50 p.m.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich scored his first win of the presidential nomination contest, grabbing all 66 delegates in the Ohio primary, in what could ultimately stall Donald Trump's decisive dash to the nomination.
Kasich entered the GOP presidential race as an underdog but surged to prominence after he secured second place in New Hampshire's primary last month.
Steering clear of the boisterous, often belligerent rhetoric exchanged by his GOP rivals, Kasich has sought to distinguish himself as the candidate with a positive message. He avoided direct criticism of front-runner Trump until recent days, when he expressed concern that the billionaire businessman was encouraging violence at his rallies.
Kasich remains in last place among the GOP contenders. He had been in fourth place, trailing Marco Rubio, who ended his campaign earlier Tuesday after a humiliating loss to Trump in his home state of Florida.
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8:45 p.m.
Marco Rubio spoke over boos from the audience as he congratulated Florida primary winner Donald Trump. Rubio offered the crowd an emotional evaluation on the state of politics in the United States Tuesday as he ended his bid for the White House.
The Florida senator sought to calm his supporters, and took a heckler in stride, saying the person would "not get beat up" at his rally, a swipe at the recent disturbances at some of Trump's rallies.
He said that he would offer "a prayer" for the eventual Republican nominee but did not suggest it would be Trump, who has a significant delegate lead over Ted Cruz and John Kasich. He has waffled of late as to whether he would support Trump if the celebrity businessman became the Republican standard-bearer.
Rubio also bemoaned the current political climate in which people "literally hate each other" because they differ politically.
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8:40 p.m.
Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic presidential primary in Ohio, earning her third win in Tuesday's quintet of contests.
Clinton already scored victories in Florida and North Carolina, earning 175 additional delegates before winning Ohio.
Contests in Missouri and Illinois have not yet been decided.
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8:35 p.m.
The delegate lead for Hillary Clinton continues to grow thanks to a big win in North Carolina.
With 107 delegates at stake, she will win at least 56. Sanders will gain at least 24.
That means for the night Clinton has earned at least 175 delegates so far, having also won Florida. Sanders will win at least 73.
In all, 691 delegates are up for grabs in five states.
Including superdelegates, the lead is bigger. Clinton now has a total of at least 1,410, while Sanders has at least 653. It takes 2,383 to win.
Still to come: results in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois.
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8:20 p.m.
Republican Marco Rubio is ending his campaign for the Republican nomination for president after a humiliating loss in his home state of Florida.
Rubio told a crowd in Miami Tuesday that he knows that voters are angry and that there is a hunger for new faces and voices in government.
Rubio's decision was prompted by losses in all but three of the presidential nomination contests but Florida's winner-take-all primary proved the most devastating. Only six years earlier, he was a tea party favorite who crushed the GOP's "establishment" candidate to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.
But the political tables turned on the Florida senator as a 2016 presidential candidate who was lambasted as mainstream in a year when voters cried out for an outsider.
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8:15 p.m.
Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic presidential primary in North Carolina, adding to her run of victories in the South over rival Bernie Sanders.
Clinton's win in North Carolina was her second victory on Tuesday, following a triumph in Florida.
She has dominated Sanders in the South, previously capturing wins in South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Clinton has a significant delegate lead over Sanders, who has turned in stronger showings in the Midwest and other Western states.
North Carolina will also be considered a key battleground state in the general election. President Barack Obama won the state in 2008 but lost it to Mitt Romney four years later.
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8:08 p.m.
Donald Trump's big win in the Florida primary is helping him stretch his lead in the race for delegates.
Trump picked up all 99 delegates in Florida.
He now has 568. Ted Cruz has 370 delegates, Marco Rubio has 163 and John Kasich has 63.
It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.
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8:06 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is widening her overall delegate lead with an early win in Florida.
The Sunshine State is Democrats' biggest delegate prize of the night.
With 214 delegates at stake, Clinton is assured of winning at least 118. Sanders will pick up at least 45.
In all, 691 delegates are up for grabs Tuesday in five states.
Going into Tuesday's contests, Clinton already held a 214-delegate advantage based just on wins from primaries and caucuses.
When including superdelegates, the lead is even larger. Clinton now has a total of at least 1,353, while Sanders has at least 625. It takes 2,383 to win.
The other states voting Tuesday are North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri and Illinois.
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8:05 p.m.
Donald Trump is once again breaking with tradition, holding an election night press conference in Florida instead of a typical victory party.
The media gathered at Trump's sprawling Mar-a-Lago club in West Palm Beach Tuesday in a large ballroom filled with more than a dozen crystal chandeliers, gilded walls and ceilings with small cherubs overhead.
Trump clinched Florida's 99 winner-take-all primary, beating rival Marco Rubio in his home state.
Reporters will be sitting in the last two rows of chairs, with 16 rows reserved in front of them. During past Trump election press conferences, members of Trump's golf clubs and other friends have filled the front seats.
Meanwhile, Trump's official campaign account has been busy, re-tweeting several negative comments about Fox News host Megyn Kelly's election coverage.
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8:00 p.m.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have won the presidential primary in Florida, further solidifying their leads in the hotly contested race for the Republican and Democratic nominations.
For Trump, the Republican front-runner, Florida's all-or-nothing contest represents a momentous win, giving him 99 additional delegates — the largest in the quintet of contests taking place Tuesday. His victory deals a devastating blow to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who many in the Republican establishment had backed in the hope of derailing Trump's dash to the nomination.
Clinton will be awarded delegates proportionally in keeping with Democratic regulations, but the win still catapults her ahead of rival Bernie Sanders, who came into Tuesday's contests with fresh momentum after scoring big in Michigan last week.
