NBC Nightly News - 1996-03-05 (Junior Tuesday primaries)
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[0:01] A very big night for Bob Dole. It should
[0:03] be a clean sweep of eight primaries, a
[0:05] turning point in the campaign.
[0:08] A drug flowing in from Mexico is banned
[0:09] in the US after a series of sexual
[0:11] abuses.
[0:14] Israel is burying its dead and goes
[0:16] after the terrorists with the help of
[0:17] the US.
[0:22] NBC News in depth tonight, Republican
[0:24] women, what can we expect? [music]
[0:27] From NBC News, this is NBC Nightly News
[0:32] with Tom Brokaw.
[0:34] Good evening. This is the biggest night
[0:36] yet in what has turned out to be a
[0:37] raucous race for the Republican
[0:39] presidential nomination. And it looks
[0:41] like a Bob Dole sweep is taking shape
[0:43] tonight. Most of the delegates in eight
[0:45] primaries. Tonight, NBC News has
[0:47] declared Dole the winner in Georgia,
[0:50] Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine,
[0:53] Connecticut.
[0:56] Bob Dole, the winner in those states
[0:57] tonight. You're looking live now at a
[0:59] voting booth in Colorado. Polls are open
[1:02] there and in Rhode Island, but Bob Dole
[1:04] is expected to do well in both those
[1:05] states as well. He is expected to take a
[1:08] lion's share of the delegates in eight
[1:10] primaries and two caucuses across the
[1:13] country tonight. A true triumph for Bob
[1:15] Dole. Here now is Gwen Ifill with the
[1:17] big stakes.
[1:20] >> It took weeks of false starts and near
[1:22] misses, but Bob Dole is finally poised
[1:25] to become the clear front-runner in the
[1:27] Republican presidential race.
[1:28] >> Looks good.
[1:29] >> Voters in eight states went to the polls
[1:31] today, casting ballots that could
[1:33] finally begin to whip this chaotic
[1:35] contest into shape. Dole, stressing his
[1:37] experience and persistence,