Donald Trump bolstered his front-runner status on Tuesday by winning the Republican presidential primaries in Mississippi and Michigan and claiming the Hawaii caucus. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's victory in the Idaho primary gave Trump his only loss of the night.

The next major Republican contests in Florida and Ohio will take place on March 15. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are hoping to pull out key victories in their home states. However, Tuesday's results suggest that Trump's momentum is not slowing.

Robert Schlesinger at U.S. News and World Report observes that "Trumpmentum" continues to thwart Republican challengers and prove skeptics wrong. He says, "The states and regions change but the pattern of the Republican presidential nomination race remains the same: Former reality TV star Donald Trump is the constant around whom a changing cast of challengers flare up and fade."

Aaron Blake of The Washington Post notes that Trump is the first Northern Republican to have won every single Republican primary in the Deep South. Additionally, Blake points out that Trump's dominance of the South is remarkable for Republican presidential candidates in general. He writes, "If nothing else, Trump's sweep of the Deep South proves that his appeal is difficult to pigeonhole or diminish."

New York Magazine's Ed Kilgore asserts that Trump's victories on Tuesday prove that he is a "national candidate." He says that Cruz underperformed in Mississippi and Kasich underperformed in Michigan, thanks to Trump. "It's becoming more obvious by the day that Trump is the only truly national candidate in the field, able to count on a sizable vote anywhere and everywhere, and possessing a strategic flexibility his rivals can only dream of," writes Kilgore.