Clinton looking to solidify lead in Super Tuesday primaries

Mr Sanders, who has energised young voters with his call for a political revolution, was seeking to pick up victories in states including Minnesota and Vermont.

Our survey of 510 likely Democratic voters shows 40 percent support Clinton and 31 percent support Sanders.

Mr Sanders was thrashed by Mrs Clinton in SC at the weekend, with the latter claiming 86% of the African-American vote. The state party requires a 20 percent threshold of support for candidates to receive delegates.

In the Democratic race, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would go a long way toward cementing her path to the nomination if she scores big victories of her own over democratic socialist Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday.

Large majorities of Republican primary voters across nine states have negative feelings toward the federal government, but whether they’re more dissatisfied or angry varies by state.

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

Tyler Murphy, a 26-year-old Boston resident who works as a project manager for a construction company, said he voted for Trump.

Democrats were voting in 11 states and American Samoa; Republicans were voting in 11 states. When it comes to social issues like abortion, gay marriage and Church-state topics, Clinton holds a 44% to 38% trust advantage over Trump among all voters.

At stake for Republicans are 595 delegates, nearly half of the 1,237 needed to win the presidential nomination.

Media captionAt a dirt-track race in Georgia, there was unanimous and uncompromising support for Donald Trump.

Sanders tops all three Republicans in the CNN poll, 57-50 over Cruz and 53-45 against Rubio.

The senator is doing a series of radio interviews this afternoon before watching Super Tuesday returns at a country club in the suburb of Stafford.

The Democratic candidates need to win 2,382 delegates to be nominated.

In Kentucky on Tuesday, Mr Trump kept up the heat on his rivals, calling Mr Rubio “a total lightweight” and Mr Cruz as “a basket case” and “a liar”.

March 1 is a make-or-break day for the remaining presidential candidates. About a quarter of Virginia’s Democratic voters were black, and also overwhelmingly backed Clinton, according to exit polling.

For Republicans, the big prize is Texas, which has the most delegates and the highest stakes for home-state presidential hopeful Sen.

Signalling her growing confidence, Clinton has increasingly turned her attention to Trump in recent days, casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults and bullying that have consumed the Republican race.

In most states, delegates are allocated proportionately based on the results of the primary or caucus (although in a handful of states, like Florida, the Republican primary is winner-take-all contest).