Super Tuesday: Clinton, Trump look to pull away from rivals

The “Super Tuesday” on March 1 is the biggest day of the 2016 USA presidential primary primary season, with 12 states and one territory participating: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming and American Samoa.

Polls open in MA at 7 a.m. and in Vermont as early as 5 a.m. Trump did later repudiate Duke but his rivals for the nomination, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, were quick to criticize.

“A vote for Donald Trump tomorrow is a vote for (Democrat) Hillary Clinton in November”, Rubio told supporters in Atlanta. It will take 2,383 delegates to secure the nomination at the party’s national convention in July in Philadelphia.

What time will Super Tuesday results be available, and what channel can you watch them on? So far Clinton has dominated among minority voters in both SC and Nevada.

By law, all Super Tuesday states have to allocate their delegates proportionally. Ted Cruz needs to win Texas tonight, and Sen.

The dispute brought other Republican senators out against Trump.

There’s been talk in recent days of mounting a third-party campaign if Trump is the nominee; Senate Republicans are reportedly considering running ads against Trump to dissociate themselves from their own candidate. “That’s a concern of mine”. Putnam estimates that if Trump and Cruz want to remain competitive, they will need to keep Trump’s overall lead to a maximum of 250 delegates. Cruz spent Monday all over the state of Texas. If he wins all or most of those states, along with Vermont, Sanders has a “comeback kid” scenario he can present. Other polls show him in a close race with Donald Trump. “Given what we know about Donald Trump, I can’t vote for him, either”, Sasse said Monday. “But I’ve also said when I see something that runs counter to who we are as a party and as a country, I will speak up”, the speaker said. “In northern Virginia, I don’t think he will do well but in more southern parts of Virginia I think he will”.

It won’t be possible for Trump to clinch the nomination outright Tuesday night. They have the opportunity to do this in in states like Georgia and Alabama, where they will automatically receive delegates if they get over 20 percent of the vote. On the Democratic side, a solid second place finish in Texas could give Sanders more delegates than a win in Oklahoma.

The plan has three major thrusts: Portray Mr. Trump as a heartless businessman who has worked against the interests of the working-class voters he now appeals to; broadcast the degrading comments he has made against women in order to sway suburban women, who have been reluctant to support Mrs. Clinton; and highlight his brash, explosive temper to show he is unsuited to be commander in chief. On Super Tuesday, 865 pledged delegates, or 21 percent of the total, are up for grabs on the Democratic side, and 595 delegates, or 25 percent, are available to the Republican candidates.

Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are looking ahead to Super Tuesday, even after Clinton won the SC Primary. Putting at least one victory on the board on Super Tuesday would provide some reassurance as his campaign heads into another critical round of primaries on March 15.