Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s pre-Super Tuesday delegate tally of 546 gives her a significant advantage over Vermont Sen.
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On the Democratic side, polls show Clinton, who has won three of the first four Democratic contests, with a big lead in six Southern states that have large blocs of black voters, who have been slow to warm to Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont.
Clinton defeated her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, by a margin of 74 percent to 26 percent in South Carolina’s Saturday primary.
Some 600 delegates, or about a quarter of those needed to secure the Republican nomination, are at stake, while about 1,000 are up for grabs among Democrats, some 20 per cent of the total.
Twelve states are casting votes for candidates from both the Republican and Democratic party nominations.
Polls open in MA at 7 a.m. and in Vermont as early as 5 a.m. He has campaigned hard in recent days in the states where he appears to have the best chance of an upset, and where he can appeal to the struggling whites who are most receptive to his messaging about income inequality: Massachusetts, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. Super Tuesday 2008 had seven caucus states; this year, two caucus states vote on the Super Tuesday Democratic ballot. If Clinton can carry her success in SC across the rest of the South and pick off a couple of Sanders’ targets, he’d be hard-pressed to catch her. But if they fall short, Trump could extend his lead to more than 165: the number of delegates at stake in the winner-take-all contests of OH and Florida, which hold primaries March 15.
Trump wins big – Should Trump win the states he is ahead in, he could rack up a delegate lead that would be virtually impossible to overcome.
Rubio is building a case that Trump would be a disaster for Republicans and that only he could unite the party and beat Clinton in a general election.
Of those delegates 30 are “Super delegates”, which means they can support anyone at the party’s convention.
The former reality television star who has turned American politics upside down with his outsider campaign, nationwide media blitz and crusade against political correctness, is going into Super Tuesday with his polling hitting new peaks. The inoclastic Vermonter, who claimed independent status through most of his career but generally aligned with Democrats, remains a fundraising powerhouse. Bernie Sanders are nearly guaranteed at least one state on Super Tuesday.
On the Republican side, Donald Trump garnered fully 49 percent of Republican support, with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz trailing him at 16 percent and 15 percent, respectively. “So, I want to do everything I can in this campaign to set us on a different course”.
To flip the script, Rubio has adopted an all-out assault on Trump’s character and conservative bona fides, an approach he debuted in the final pre-Super Tuesday debate and built on over the weekend. Although evangelicals helped him win Iowa, according to ABC News exit poll analysis, he narrowly lost that vote with Trump in SC, and lost that vote to Trump and Rubio in Nevada, and to Trump in SC.
She’s expected to win most of the states voting tonight – though she’s likely to lose by a wide margin in Sen.
He derided the “horrible” job his rivals have done in their home states, in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. On the other hand, Trump revealed on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday that he doesn’t feel he has the support of the Republican Party.
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Democrats are more apt than Republicans to say they would support either of the remaining top candidates should they become the nominee.
