March 15 - A National Broadcast of Ian Masters’ Coverage of 2016 Primary Results on the Pacifica Radio Network

Today we host Pacifica Radio's national coverage of today's Presidential Primaries in five states - Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, along with Antonio Gonzalez, the President of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, the nation’s largest and oldest Latino voter participation organization who have tripled Latino registration from 5.4 million in 1994 to more than 14 million in 2012. With the Latino vote tonight a critical factor in Florida, Ohio and Illinois.

Also joining us is Robert Creamer, a long-time political organizer and strategist who is a partner in Democracy Partners and a Senior Strategist for Americans United for Change and he has an article at The Huffington Post, “Can Fascism Triumph in America?”

First we go to Chicago to discuss the rust belt rebellion that is propelling Donald Trump on the Republican side and Bernie Sanders among Democrats and look into whether with a record turnout we will be seeing an upset on the Democratic side in Illinois. Joining us is Chuy Garcia, the Cook County Commissioner who ran against Rahm Emanuel for Mayor Chicago in 2015.

Then we turn to the key winner-take-all state of Florida, which along with Ohio could give Donald Trump an insurmountable lead in clinching the Republican presidential nomination and spell the end for that state’s junior Senator Marco Rubio. Joining us now is Alvaro Fernandez, the editor and publisher of ProgresoWeekly.com a bilingual internet magazine headquartered in Miami whose focus is the US/Cuba relationship.

And joining us from the other key winner-take-all state of Ohio is Bob Fitrakis, a Professor of Political Science at Columbus State Community College in Ohio where he is also the Editor of The Free Press newspaper in Ohio’s capitol, Columbus.

Then we check in on Illinois where the race has tightened between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in part due to an endorsement of Hillary by the toxically unpopular Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel. Scott Stantis, a cartoonist at The Chicago Tribune whose work is syndicated in over 125 newspapers joins us.

With North Carolina a lock for Donald Trump on the Republican side and Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side, we finally go to Missouri where things could not be more different with Bernie Sanders clawing ahead of Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz polling ahead of Trump with about 20 minutes left before the polls close. Clarissa Hayward, a political theorist at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on questions central to understanding and evaluating political life, joins us…