Super Tuesday: Clinton, Trump Look to Pull Away from Rivals

CNN projected that the former secretary of state had won Virginia and Georgia, while Mr Sanders was projected to have won Vermont, his home state. Trump has expanded his lead over the diminished field to capture the support of almost half of Republican voters, while Clinton tops Bernie Sanders by almost 20 points on the Democrat votes.

Businessman Donald Trump, the front-runner in the Republican race, is holding events in Virginia and Georgia, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio is campaigning in Arkansas. From top: Republicans Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. The state’s Democratic electorate is dominated by black voters, who supported Clinton overwhelmingly in Nevada and SC, and Latino voters who have also favored Clinton (albeit by slimmer margins). Asked who of the five candidates is most honest and trustworthy, 35 per cent name Trump, 22 per cent Carson, 14 per cent Cruz and 13 per cent Rubio.

The notion of a Trump victory has alarmed Republican Party leaders, many of whom do not support his positions and who believe Clinton would easily defeat him in November.

Mrs Clinton is casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults and bullying that have consumed the Republican race, which she said has “turned into a kind of one-upmanship on insulting, and I don’t think that’s appropriate in a presidential campaign”. Sorry Sanders, your home state of Vermont tends to be slow to report.

Sanders’ rival’s wins in the south, like her massive win in SC, are significant because she lost both Virginia and Georgia to Barack Obama in 2008.

Professor Peter Trubowitz, director of the United States Centre at the London School of Economics, said Super Tuesday could prove decisive for Trump and would be a “test of his geographic and demographic appeal”. Now Cruz’s future hinges on a victory in his home state of Texas, the biggest prize of the day. Trump said he had not understood the interviewer who first raised the question, and he did later repudiate Duke. 12 states are voting tonight, the most on any single day in the 2016 presidential primary contest.

On the Democratic side, Super Tuesday is largely expected to work as planned. We’ve all been told that every vote counts, but if we’re bring honest, here, some votes certainly count more than others, and some states are more important to the candidates than others.

NEW YORK (AP) – As Bernie Sanders headed toward victory in New Hampshire, pundits noted the barrier he was ab… Trump, whose insurgent campaign threatens to split the party, holds strong polling leads in seven of the 11 states that are voting. Sen.