Bernie Sanders won important victories in Kansas and Nebraska, while Ted Cruz showed that Donald Trump may not be as inevitable as he has come to seem.

Here are the numbers for the primaries that took place in five states on Saturday, according to The New York Times:

From The Guardian:

A ferocious week of attacks on Donald Trump appeared to loosen his grip on the Republican presidential race on “Super Saturday”, while Bernie Sanders showed there may also be some life left in the Democratic race.

Conservative champion Ted Cruz won heavily in the Republican caucus in Kansas and won by a similar margin in Maine, before Trump underlined his national advantage with victories in Louisiana and Kentucky. … In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton lost Kansas and Nebraska to a resurgent Sanders campaign, although her own win in Louisiana, as expected, left her well ahead in net delegates at the end of the night. …

Though not as significant as the dozen Super Tuesday contests this week or the large states voting on 15 March, the five states voting on Saturday suggested the race to secure party nominations was far from settled.

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— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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