The biggest day of the primary season, Super Tuesday, is when the greatest number of party delegates will claim their candidate. Republican candidates could secure half their delegates, and Democrats a third.
02 March 2016
Ted Cruz wins the Republican caucus in Alaska, AP reported.
Hillary Clinton takes Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders takes Minnesota.
LU: With 53% of polls reporting, Marco Rubio could take Minnesota. Bernie Sanders is leading in Minnesota, as well.
Bernie Sanders is projected to win in Colorado.
“If tomorrow morning, a candidate is sitting there and he’s won zero states and doesn’t have a credible shot at getting the delegates, then I do think it’s worth a candidate thinking about coming together and uniting behind," Cruz said in a Tuesday interview on "The Mike Gallagher Show." Adding, "I do think what today will do is help narrow the field. We need to get to a one-on-one battle with Donald Trump."
Donald Trump takes Arkansas.
With half of the votes in for Massachusetts, it appears that Clinton has taken a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders.
"I'm going to be really good for women... We're going to do great with the African-American vote." - Donald Trump's optimistic outlook for women, minorities.
Ben Carson may drop out of presidential race.
Super Tuesday, by the numbers.
With results pouring in, here's a refresher about where the US presidential candidates are:
Hillary Clinton is leading the Democratic Party with winning in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, and Tennessee. Her opponent, Bernie Sanders, has won Vermont and Oklahoma.
For the Republican party, Donald Trump has won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. Cruz is in second place with Texas and Oklahoma. Rubio, Carson, and Kasich have yet to win any delegates.
"We are seeing in state after state [Donald Trump's] numbers coming down, our numbers going up," Marco Rubio assured his supporters in Florida.
Oklahoma goes to Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders.
Texas chooses Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton for the presidential primaries.
"Instead of building walls, we're going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment," Clinton said of her vision of the presidency. She later said of the GOP, "the rhetoric we're hearing on the other side has never been lower."
"This country belongs to all of us, not just those at the top. Not just to people who look one way, worship one way, or even think one way," Hillary Clinton told supporters in Florida.
Trump is leading in Virginia GOP primary with 35.8 percent of votes.
Hillary Clinton wins Arkansas Democratic primary.
Hillary Clinton has currently won the Democratic primaries in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders has won Vermont. Donald Trump has won Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Massachusetts.
Sanders told supporters this is not a general election. "If you get 52% you roughly end up with roughly the same amount of delegates. We are going to win many hundreds of delegates."
He added, "10 months ago we were at 3 percent in the polls, we have come a very long way in 10 months. At the end of the night, 15 states will have voted, 35 states will remain."
"What I have said from day one…is that the campaign is not just about electing a president but about making a political revolution," said Sanders. "What that revolution is about is about is about bring millions into the political process...the disillusioned, the young who have never voted, blacks and Latinos, gays and straights...immigrants…we do not allow the Donald Trumps of the world to divide us."
"In our state you all know that we have many, many Vermonters are working not just one job, not just two jobs, they are working 3 jobs, while you are all working so hard, all the new wealth and income is going to the top 1%," said Sanders to rousing cheers from the audience of 'Bernie, Bernie." "What we are going to do is work for an economy that works for all of us, not just the people at top."
"We cannot allow billionaires and their super PACs to destroy American democracy," said Sanders.
'10 months ago we were at 3% in the polls, we come along way' Sanders on Vermont win
"It is about dealing with unpleasant truths that exist in America, and having the guts to confront those truths. It is about recognizing that in our state we have town meetings, argue about things, and then vote. One person one vote," Sanders told campaign supporters in Vermont on his win.
8 P.M. EST: Polls are now closed in Alabama, Oklahoma, Massachusettes, Tennessee, and Texas.
Exit polls say Drump has GOP lead in Vermont.
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Multiple reports say that Sanders wins Vermont, Clinton wins Georgia and Virginia.
Official results are still coming in, but Bernie Sanders has been projected to win in his home state of Vermont while Hillary is expected to sweep up in Virginia.
Most poll results are still hours away, but Bernie Sanders received at least one small win. The Vermont Senator swept up in the American living in New Zealand demographic, picking up 21 out of the 28 American voters living in Wellington. The other 6 expats voted for Hillary.
It's 7 PM on the East Coast! Polling booths Georgia, Virginia, and Vermont are all closed. Stay tuned for the results!
01 March 2016
Donald Trump has one big weakness: Texas. Ted Cruz gave himself a vote of confidence for Super Tuesday.
A Georgia Tech student speaks with RT's Nebosja Malic, describing the situation inside the university's voting precinct, student activism in the primaries, and how the school accommodated the nation's most important primary voting day.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are vying for a big win on Super Tuesday in Texas. But what will it take for them to win over the ever-growing electorate? Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha joins RT’s Ed Schultz and Ameera David to take a look at the crucial race.
Ben Carson said that he was not going to drop out after Super Tuesday, but his campaign chairman Bob Dees admits that the team “clearly” does not know the way to win the Republican nomination.
“But we think the opportunity exists for people to wake up and that’s what we’re hoping,” Dees told the Washington Examiner.
Austin-based radio station KLBJ says that nearly half a dozen voters reported that Texas voting machines changed their votes. In three cases, ballots were switched from Donald Trump to Sen. Marco Rubio.
“When I reviewed my ballot at the end, the person I voted for president was marked differently than how I voted,” one caller named Eddie told the radio.
A KLBJ host said that one such case was reported in Round Rock, one in Leander, one in Georgetown.
“So it appears to be a Williamston County problem,” the host assumed.
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Voting issues have been reported at two locations in Shelby County in Memphis, Tennessee, WREG News Channel 3 reported.
In one case at Chimneyrock Elementary, machines for signing voters in allegedly were not working at first, which delayed the poll for more than an hour.
At another site at Winchester Elementary, voters were told that the wrong machines had been delivered and voting has not begun.
Months after supporting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for president in November, newspaper the New Hampshire Union Leader says it made a mistake.
"Boy, were we wrong," publisher Joseph McQuaid wrote in a February 29 editorial entitled 'Christie Was Our Bad Choice.'
On Saturday, Christie said he endorses Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
In Wellington, New Zealand, Bernie Sanders has picked up 21 votes out of the 28 American voters, while Clinton got six votes, AP reported.
A poll worker tells WJLA’s reporter that there is a "very high" turnout at Wilson School in Arlington, Virginia.
Bernie Sanders’s older brother Larry has cast his vote for the Democrat candidate at one of the polling booths that opened in the UK for US expats.
Chelsea Clinton is rallying support for her mother in Nebraska.
Bill Clinton has reportedly cast his ballot at a polling booth in Boston, Massachusetts, accompanied by mayor Marty Walsh.
Sanders told his Massachusetts supporters it's up them to lead a "political revolution", at a pre-Super Tuesday election rally in Milton, Massachusetts, on Monday.
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Both Sanders and Clinton topped Donald Trump in hypothetical general election match-ups, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll released Tuesday. Based on answers by 1,001 Americans, Clinton beats Trump with 52 percent of the vote against 44. If Bernie Sanders were to become the nominee, he would beat Trump by a wider margin of 55 percent to 43 percent.
Speaking to reporters outside his Burlington, Vermont, polling station on Tuesday morning, Bernie Sanders said: "I am confident that if there is a large voter turnout today across this country, we are going to do well. And if there's not, we're probably going to be struggling."
Bernie Sanders turned out to his Burlington, Vermont, polling station early this morning to cast his vote.
Republican candidate Ted Cruz is expected to face pressure to quit the presidential race if he does not win his home state of Texas, with many analysts predicting that such a loss would signal the end of his campaign.
For the GOP contest, most polls show Donald Trump holding decent leads in the majority of the 11 states.
For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is expected to take the majority of states from Bernie Sanders.
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia will hold contests for both parties.
Alaska is holding a GOP-only caucus, and Colorado is holding a Democrat-only contest.
Democrats are also voting in American Samoa.
Democrats will vote in 11 states and American Samoa today, with 865 delegates up for grabs. For Democrats, there are an additional 150 unpledged delegates, known as "superdelegates," who are free to vote however they want at the national convention this summer.
Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates up for grabs.
Americans have officially begun voting in the Super Tuesday primaries.