Thus, registered voters who didn’t cast early ballots should fulfill their civic duty and head to the polls.
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Super Tuesday sees 595 delegates up for grabs in 11 states holding contests for the Republican nomination, more than any other day in the primary season.
A Republican candidate needs 1,237 delegates to win the nomination outright, a Democrat needs 2,382.
Arkansas voters’ choices may actually matter in presidential primary voting Tuesday after the most intense campaign in years brought a flurry of visits from candidates and a barrage of television ads. While a win in Texas would certainly be a big boost for Cruz, he has an uphill battle in most states.
The elections will be held in a variety of regions, from the South to New England, which will provide a glimpse of the national appeal of the front-runners and any hints at their weaknesses.
By now you’ve probably heard what Super Tuesday means in terms of the delegate count for the presidential nominating contests. So today I want to be very clear about something: If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games.
He took to Reddit this week to encourage voters to go the polls in a bid to swing the results on 1 March, telling social media users: “You have always supported me since this campaign first began, and for that, I thank you”. Cruz also has an army of about 27,000 volunteers in the state.
Republicans overseas don’t have that option; they would have to vote in their state’s primary back home or watch from the sidelines.
Donald Trump is now leading the GOP pack with 82 delegates. Sen.
Welcome to the Hunger Games of the primary election, Super Tuesday.
Like Trump, Clinton has won three of the four early voting contests, including in SC on Saturday.
“What we can’t let happen is the scapegoating, the flaming, the finger pointing that is going on the Republican side”, she told voters gathered in Springfield, Massachusetts on Monday morning. Republicans vote in Alaska and Democrats in Colorado. While Hillary Clinton, having just avenged her defeat in New Hampshire by demolishing Bernie Sanders is widely expected to have a good night, onlookers will be be wondering how far Donald Trump can take his shockingly successful run for the Republican nomination.
Adding to their unease was Trump’s reluctance in a CNN interview on Sunday to disavow an endorsement of him by David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group.
So if Cruz wins big in his home state today, he could vault into contention with Trump; otherwise today’s election could solidify Trump’s lead over his remaining rivals.
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“These are challenging times for the Republican Party”, said Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who wanted to stay neutral in the GOP primary but endorsed Rubio last week.
