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Donald Trump leads in Alabama, Oklahoma; Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders split

No major problems are reported as Oklahomans go to the polls for the state’s presidential primary. About three-in-four (74% in both Alabama and Oklahoma) say Christie’s endorsement has no impact on their vote choice.

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Cruz seems like a genuine conservative who values the things she values, Whisenant said, and he’s the best alternative for the years ahead. “Let everybody see them!” the senator said about Hillary Clinton. Then cast your vote for the one who’s most deserving of that title.

The day after another loss in the primaries, now more than ever, it is crucial Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders connect with voters in Oklahoma.

“I stood in line for six hours the other day at a Trump rally because to me he’s just the man”, said Lindsey.

Lindsey said Trump has the guts, the experience and the business know-how to be president, and she’d have a hard time voting for anyone else for president if Trump fails to secure the nomination.

Both states will vote on Super Tuesday, March 1. Forecasters say that damaging wind gusts will be the greatest threat.

Shapard said Trump led other Republican candidates in all congressional districts and across the state regardless of age or gender.

New Jersey traditionally votes in June, with the 2008 cycle being one exception, when the Garden State was among a slew of states to move their elections up in the calendar.

The group spend much of the night, attacking Donald Trump’s brazen campaign strategy. Marco Rubio by 3 points in the poll, followed by neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is projecting 38 to 40 percent of registered voters to cast ballots Tuesday.

The presidential primaries on Tuesday are the only statewide elections on the ballot, but there may be local questions depending on where the voter lives.

Oklahoma is no longer the flyover election state: Most presidential candidates are taking our participation in Super Tuesday seriously in 2016.

Polling places are open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday.

A Monmouth University poll, released Monday, examining voter preferences in two Super Tuesday states found Trump with sizable leads in both Alabama and Oklahoma, and Clinton holding a very comfortable lead in Alabama and only slightly behind Bernie Sanders in Oklahoma. But Fallin greet each of the Republicans who visited Oklahoma over the weekend, introducing Rubio and Cruz at their events and sitting on the front row of a Trump rally in Oklahoma City on Friday night. Sanders’ tweet – “America’s first black president can not and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK” – was retweeted by his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton’s record.

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Offices on the ballots during the primaries include president, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, State Supreme Court Associate Justice, President of Public Service Commission, State Board of Education, Circuit Court Judges, District Court Judges, District Attorneys and various county offices.

Voters wait in last to cast their ballots on Super Tuesday