Super Tuesday Latest: Trump, Clinton win Al., Tn., Trump wins Ma

By 9 p.m. Tuesday, media outlets had called Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia by wide, double-digit margins for Clinton.

Sanders believes he has a shot at victory in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, Oklahoma and, of course, his home state of Vermont.

Clinton is marking several Super Tuesday victories with a rally in Miami.

Super Tuesday marked the busiest day of the 2016 primaries, with the biggest single-day delegate haul up for grabs.

Voting is underway in 11 states, and Trump and Clinton are holding commanding leads.

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Clinton won more than 80 percent of black votes in the Tennessee Democratic primaries, according to preliminary exit poll results. Voting with his wife in Houston, Cruz said he hoped Republicans would see a narrower field emerge on Wednesday.

Sanders was projected by ABC and MSNBC to win his home state of Vermont, one of five states he was hoping to capture on Tuesday.

Clinton held events in Minnesota after she flew almost 1,300 miles from campaign events in Virginia on Monday to build support in the state during the final hours before tonight’s caucuses and polls close in 12 other Super Tuesday contests.

“What we can’t let happen is the scapegoating, the flaming, the finger pointing that is going on on the Republican side”, she told voters in MA. Arkansas seems to lean toward Cruz, and Clinton is expected to win it for the Democrats.

In Massachusetts, 55 percent wanted an outsider candidate, compared to 38 percent who wanted someone experienced in politics.

Recent poll numbers show on average Trump is ahead in MA by about 26 points, followed by Rubio and then Kasich. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in the battle for second place. He took advantage of the national television coverage to deliver his stump speech, but his promise to win “many hundreds of delegates” was decidedly tepid.

Republicans fear the front runner, who before Super Tuesday had won three of the first four contests, will damage their prospects of recapturing the White House after President Barack Obama’s two terms. Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told CNN earlier Tuesday the campaign was committed to compete all the way to the Democratic convention. In Texas, about 3 in 10 Democratic primary voters were Hispanic and a little less than 2 in 10 were black.

Today’s elections, many of them in southern states where the Democratic electorate includes large shares of African American voters, are friendly territory for Clinton.