Clinton looking to pull away in Democratic primaries

Between all 11 contests, there are a total of 595 delegates, who will vote on the eventual party nominee, at stake.

Contests stretch from Vermont in the east to Texas and Georgia in the south.

Rubio, along with Texas Senator Ted Cruz, is scrambling to block Trump’s path to the nomination.

There have been earlier votes in four states.

A CNN poll released Tuesday morning shows that both Sen. In the Democratic race, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can go a long way toward silencing concerns about her candidacy with big victories of her own over democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.

Trump also scored wins in Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and MA. That’s nearly half the 1,237 needed to win the Republican nomination. Two-thirds of GOP voters in Texas, Virginia and Georgia, 7 in 10 in Tennessee, and almost 8 in 10 in Alabama supported the proposal, according to the early exit polls.

Super Tuesday has been pivotal for the Clintons before.

Clinton aims for a sweep of Southern states in the delegate-heavy series of primaries and caucuses Tuesday.

On the eve of the polls, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse became the highest-ranked elected party member to come out and say he would not back him for president. He has won one contest so far, the New Hampshire primary. “We have to fill in what’s been hollowed out”, Clinton said to a crowd at her headquarters in Miami. “So, I want to do everything I can in this campaign to set us on a different course”. Ted Cruz, are engaged in a frantic effort to stop the billionaire real estate magnate, but it was unclear whether they had made their move too late.

Clinton and her allies have already shifted some attention to Donald Trump, casting the Republican front-runner as divisive and unprepared to lead the country.

Tensions boiled over during a Trump rally on Monday in Virginia, where he was repeatedly disrupted by demonstrators, including 20 or more chanting: “Black lives matter”.

On Tuesday, Mr Trump said he had on several occasions in the past disavowed Mr Duke. He told the network at one point that “there’s nobody who’s done so much for equality as I have”.

The disarray among Republicans comes as Clinton appears to be tightening her grip on the Democratic field.

Mrs Clinton is eyeing black voters in places like Alabama, Georgia and Virginia after taking eight out of 10 black votes in SC. “They seem to have forgotten completely about the issues and are running campaigns on insults”. “If it’s a home run he could get up to 400, but I think 250 is reasonable”, the adviser said.

And on the Democratic side, Sanders was projected to notch a win in his home state of Vermont as well as in Oklahoma.

“What we can’t let happen is the scapegoating, the flaming, the finger-pointing that is going on the Republican side”, she told voters in MA.

“Believe it or not, we’re going to unify this country”, he said.