What’s at stake on Super Tuesday

Caucuses were held in Colorado and Minnesota, and Republicans held caucuses in Alaska and Wyoming, while Democrats held their parties caucus in American Samoa, according to the CBS. As Rubio guarantees that Trump will not have the delegates he needs to win, and Cruz warns that candidates who fail to win their home states (hint: Rubio, who is far behind in Florida) should quit, Trump appears likely to dominate in the states where he is already doing well.

Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake. He is sure to take his home state of Vermont, but will have to close the margins significantly in other states.

REUTERS/Mike StoneMarco Rubio and Donald Trump.Marco Rubio’s critics have repeatedly highlighted the fact that he was not expected to win any of the swath of “Super Tuesday” primaries and caucuses. Most interest is in the Republican race, where eleven states are voting: seven in the south (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia), Massachusetts and Vermont in the north, Minnesota in the midwest, and Alaska.

In another sign of Trump’s dominance, many Republicans have accepted that a contested Republican convention is the best-case scenario for them to stop the billionaire from getting the party’s nomination.

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will face off against Vermont Sen.

“If he continues with that momentum and powers through and wins everywhere on Super Tuesday, he could easily be unstoppable”, Cruz said on Friday. But Republican frontrunner Donald Trump now commands Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Massachusetts and Tennessee, according to exit polls. Southerners will flock to the polls to vote in the presidential primary on Tuesday, March 1, also known as Super Tuesday. She considered Clinton safe but uninspiring. Sanders claimed 8 in 10 voters under age 30, and 7 in 10 of those aged 30-44. For the Democrats, Texas will be the state to watch. For results as they come in, I generally rely on the New York Times. In Texas, half of GOP primary voters said they were angry.