Democrats will be voting in 11 states and American Samoa, with 865 delegates at stake.
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Super Tuesday is the single biggest day of the primary season with 595 delegates up for grabs for the Republicans and 865 for the Democrats.
The largest Super Tuesday was in 2008, when a whopping 25 states went to the polls on February 5. Bernie Sanders 55 percent to 38 percent, a slightly wider margin than in the last such national poll, taken before the first four nominating contests.
Rivals continued to hammer Trump on the stump Monday, including his reticence over the weekend to repudiate the support of former Ku Klux Klan official David Duke.
“It is critical for anybody who is left in this race to be able to win their own home state”, Mr. Kasich said on CNN. He’ll be voting in Houston on Tuesday where he’ll await vote returns. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.
What do the delegates do? . His best-case scenario is to get a handful of delegates in states such as MA and Virginia, enough to justify staying in the race until his home state votes on March 15.
“The candidate that’s gonna win this is gonna get that by getting 1,237 delegates”.
If that happens, and given Ms Clinton’s near monopoly of her party’s 700 non-elected “super-delegates” at July’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia, she will be well on the way to the 2 383 total she needs for victory. We’ve reached the stage where this grand spectacle is no longer confined to the savvy insiders enjoying Iowa and New Hampshire’s limited-run “art house” contests. Generally, however, it’s expected they honour the wishes of the rank-and-file voters. “How many delegates do you have?”
Why is it so complicated? .
Tennessee and 10 other states vote on Super Tuesday this week. Write to us in the Comments Section, or visit our Facebook page.
Most of the polling places open between 7 am and 8 am local time across USA eastern and central time zones and close between 7 pm and 9 pm. However, exit polls may give an early indication beforehand. As accusations of dishonesty have flown between Trump, Cruz and Rubio, voters say they are more apt to see Trump as honest and trustworthy.
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Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will battle it out on Super Tuesday. Super Tuesday states include Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. The two candidates are not all that far apart in their share of pledged delegates.
