What you need to know about Super Tuesday

To win their party nominations, GOP candidates need 1,237 delegates, and Democrats need 2,383.

“If Cruz doesn’t win Texas, it’s game over for him”, Phillip Stutts, a Republican political consultant, told CNN.

In our survey of 540 likely Republican voters, 34 percent pick Trump, 21 percent support Marco Rubio and 18 percent back Ted Cruz. That all changes on Super Tuesday. Clinton in 2000 was the first female senator elected in NY and was re-elected in 2006.

Speaking to reporters Friday in the State House, Baker said he’s not disappointed with Christie’s endorsement of Trump, but “surprised”.

After the most recent Republican primary debate, Trump said that he thinks the IRS may be targeting him because he’s a “strong Christian”. “So the fact that the race is still competitive on both the Democratic and the Republican sides means that there’s a greater chance for meaningful participation by Virginia voters”.

Well, primary votes are far from over, and after Super Tuesday there are still a lot down the line, so you’ll be hearing about this for a bit longer. What that means is that a candidate could hypothetically get no votes but still receive all the super delegate votes. For Democrats, there are 859, not including the super delegates.

In all, 595 Republican delegates- about 25 percent of the total number – are available on Super Tuesday.

Cruz built his campaign on the idea of sweeping Super Tuesday, but Trump’s momentum and appeal with social conservatives and evangelicals threatens to smash his Southern firewall.

For example, instead of primary elections, some states have “caucuses”.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rallies with supporters at Wood Museum of Springfield History in Springfield, Mass., Feb. 29, 2016. Up for grabs are some delegate-rich states including Texas, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Georgia. Meanwhile, Alaska and Minnesota will hold caucuses.

Democrats in territory American Samoa will also hold caucuses.

Appearing on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper”, the Texas senator once again insisted that he is the best alternative to Trump, saying that 65% of GOP primary voters agree that the real estate mogul is not the best candidate to face Clinton.

Who is likely to win? Polls show that Trump is leading in most of the other states voting that day.

Currently, Ben Carson and Ohio Governor John Kasich are still this race for the Republican nomination. So right now, with the superdelegates included, Sanders has 85 votes while Clinton has 544. Her popularity with African-American voters gives her a 54-point advantage in Georgia and a 68-point advantage among the same group in Tennessee, according to the latest polls. If such a surprise fails to materialise, Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump’s paths to their parties’ nominations may well be paved on Tuesday.