Trump, Clinton lead ahead of Super Tuesday contests

Bernie Sanders may have pulled up close alongside Hillary Clinton in polls nationally, but she is ahead in most states holding their nominating contests for the USA presidential elections on March 1, Super Tuesday.

 On Tuesday, 12 states and territories will take part in “Super Tuesday” votes. As the Democrats voted, the Republican race churned on as Trump traded barbs with rival Marco Rubio, who in recent days has launched a fierce assault on the billionaire real estate mogul.

Trump’s support also remains widespread across every demographic group, including gender, ideology, age and even education level, where Trump had lagged behind among voters with a college degree.

Two weeks ago, after Sanders’ New Hampshire victory and the near-tie in Iowa the week before, just 41% thought that.

Clinton’s campaign hopes her strong showing in SC foreshadows similar outcomes in states like Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia that vote Tuesday and have large minority populations.

Clinton is casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults, bullying, and personal attacks that have consumed the Republican race. “It really undermines our fabric as a nation”. “We can win in Minnesota if we have the turnout”. But Sanders faces tough questions about whether he can rally minorities that are core Democratic voters.

With barely 24 hours before the big day, Clinton and Trump are well positioned to secure the lion’s share of the delegate bonanza in the 11 states voting in each party’s primaries.

The Republican candidates will battle over 49 delegates. Rubio, of Florida, called Trump unelectable after he failed to repudiate the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

She also said she was proud of Arkansas, and how former Gov. Mike Beebe and current Gov. Asa Hutchinson worked to accept the federal dollars and expand Medicaid.

“We will win because bringing people together trumps divisiveness”. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, instead positioning herself as the best candidate in a likely general election contest with Donald Trump.

If Trump sweeps most of the states up for grabs Tuesday, he could amass a delegate lead that would be hard for any rival to overcome.

“We’re not angry people, but we’re angry at the way this country’s being run”. Just under half of those who responded would not commit to backing him, foreshadowing a potentially extraordinary break this fall. This week, 56% of the public expects Clinton to become the Democratic nominee. “And there would be nothing that would give me more pleasure than to defeat Donald Trump”.

While the state’s Democrats will be taking a preference poll for their party’s candidates for president, their GOP counterparts will not.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie endorsed him this past week, while Senator Jeff Sessions, a conservative stalwart who has intensely opposed President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration, announced Sunday he is backing Trump. “Rubio’s path to continuing is a lot less clear”. John Cornyn, one of the lawmakers who would back Trump as the nominee.

Sanders, on the other hand, addressed his voters and claimed that they got “decimated”. “But right now it looks like it’s his to lose”. But he refused to submit to her view of the Democratic race, adding that his campaign’s “grassroots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won’t stop now”. Republicans vote in Alaska and Democrats in Colorado. American Samoa will also vote.