CBS News: Mitt Romney will win Kentucky primary Mitt Romney will pick up another chunk of delegates as he closes in on the GOP presidential nomination with a win Tuesday in Kentucky, CBS News projects. The projection came shortly after polls closed in Kentucky at 7 pm Eastern Time. Kentucky and Arkansas both held primaries on Tuesday; polls are set to close in Arkansas at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time. There are not enough delegates up for grabs Tuesday for Romney to reach the threshold of 1,144 electoral votes he needs to clinch his party's nomination. The former Massachusetts governor is expected to clinch the nomination next Tuesday in the Texas primary. Romney entered the day with an extimated 1,005 delegates, according to CBS News estimates. There are 75 delegates up for grabs in Kentucky and Arkansas, and Romney is expected to win nearly all of them. Romney's rivals have suspended their campaigns or stopped active campaigning, and he has spent recent weeks focused on the general election. The presumptive GOP nominee was scheduled to spent Tuesday evening at a fundraiser in New York, part of a three-day fundraising swing that his finance chairman told donors would raise $10 million.