Super Tuesday: Trump And Clinton Eye Big Wins

“It is good to be home”, Sanders told a cheering crowd in Vermont.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event at the Royal Baptist Church Family Life Center in North Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016.

One of Clinton’s best groups in Virginia was seniors, who made up about a quarter of voters today. Voting stretches from eastern states to Texas and Minnesota, with the first polls closing at 7 p.m. EST in Vermont, Virginia and Georgia. Clinton led with African-Americans, as well as both men and women, in Georgia and Virginia, according to surveys conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.

In the Democratic race, Clinton has steadied herself after an unexpectedly strong early challenge from Sanders.

Super Tuesday sees 11 states voting on the biggest single day ahead of the 8 November presidential election. The billionaire has won Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Massachusetts, and Virginia so far this evening, while Cruz has only won Texas and Oklahoma.

Like Trump, Clinton has won three of the four early voting contests, including in SC on Saturday.

Ted Cruz pulled off a key victory on Super Tuesday by beating Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary in Cruz’s home state of Texas.

Republican Ted Cruz won Iowa.

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Overall, Trump leads with 182 delegates.

Hillary Clinton – Clinton performed up to expectations and beyond, and picked off one of the states that Bernie Sanders was targeting.

Donald Trump struck a more diplomatic-sounding tone in his victory speech after winning the most states on Super Tuesday, but did fit in several shots at Marco Rubio.

The Texas senator, a favourite of the region’s social conservatives and evangelical Christians, expected the South to be his strength, but now is simply hoping for a victory in his home state. More than two-fifths say they’re angry, and more than two-fifths say they’re satisfied.

Mr Trump, speaking at a news conference in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, said he had “expanded the Republican party”, claiming he is responsible for higher voter turnout in the primary states.

Oklahoma offers 43 delegates for Republicans and 38 delegates for Democrats.