Tuesday was Super Tuesday in the U.S. and Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are hoping for wins in key states.
Vox reports that 12 states are holding primaries or caucuses
today: Alabama, Georgia, Vermont, Virginia, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado,
Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Alaska.
Polls in all 12 states close at seven or eight o’clock p.m. or sometime in between.
Fox News reports that for Democrats, Super Tuesday
holds the possibility of picking up 865 delegates, while the
Republicans are in a race to earn as many of the 595 delegates as
possible.
Texas has been at the center of Super Tuesday speculations. The
lonestar state has 222 Democratic delegates to be earned and 155
Republican delegates. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is hoping to win his home
state. Currently, polls show him leading frontrunner Donald Trump there.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been campaigning vigorously in Southern
primary states such as Virginia and Georgia. Georgia offers the second
most Republican delegates of Super Tuesday with 76.
There has been significant pushback against Donald Trump, especially after he refused to disavow the KKK, blaming his response on a faulty earpiece.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton leads Sen. Bernie Sanders in
most polls. Sanders has focused his campaigning efforts on Minnesota and
Colorado. Clinton currently leads Sanders in delegates 543 to 85,
including so-called superdelegates.
Going into Super Tuesday, Trump leads Republicans with 82 delegates.
Rubio has 16 and Cruz has 17. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has six while
retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has four.
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