The 2016 Alabama Republican presidential primary took place on March 1, 2016. This was the fifth primary held in the 2016 Republican primary. Donald Trump won the primary handily. The election was also held on Super Tuesday. Trump eventually won the Republican primary. He was elected President of the United States on November 8, 2016, against Hillary Clinton. Ahead of the primary, Alabama was considered one of Donald Trump's strongest states. Trump enjoyed the endorsement of Senator Jeff Sessions, who would later join his Department of Justice as

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. Sessions was Trump's first endorsement in the U.S. Senate.

Candidates

* Donald Trump * Ted Cruz *

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* John Kasich * Ben Carson

Endorsements

Polling

Aggregate polls

Results

Results by county

By congressional district

Trump won all 7 congressional districts.

Analysis

According to

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, Alabama's Republican electorate has the second-highest proportion of white

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of any Super Tuesday state, at 63% of Republican voters. Donald Trump won the Alabama primary in a

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due to support from Evangelical primary voters. Trump carried 43% of Evangelicals compared to 22% for Ted Cruz, according to

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s by Edison Research. Many pundits were perplexed by Trump's dominance among

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Southern whites who were expected to view him as immoral, but he benefitted from voters' racial, cultural, and economic angst that mattered more than shared values.

References

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