Updated March 6, 2024, 10:15 a.m. EST
- As expected, the Super Tuesday results were dominated by Trump and Biden, increasing the likelihood of another Trump-Biden showdown in November.
- Nikki Haley is preparing to suspend her presidential campaign after only winning Vermont, which has 17 out of 874 delegates in states that voted in yesterday's GOP contests.
- Trump came out with Virginia, North Carolina, Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennesse, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Texas, California, Utah, and Alaska, awarding him 995 delegates. To win the party nomination, GOP candidates need 1,215 delegates. Trump is expected to officially win the nomination as soon as next Tuesday.
Today, March 5, is Super Tuesday, when multiple states will hold their primary elections or caucuses. A significant moment in the presential election, Super Tuesday ultimately, and unofficially, determines the presidential nominees for each party.
Each year, a varied number of states hold elections on Super Tuesday. It typically includes a geographically and demographically diverse mix, representing a large portion of the delegate count.
For candidates, Super Tuesday is a crucial event. A successful Super Tuesday campaign can lead to a significant advantage in the contest.
So, what states are partaking, and what do you need to know?
States voting on Super Tuesday
- The states holding primary elections on March 5 include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.
- American Samoa will be holding its Democratic caucus, and Iowa will be releasing the results of its presidential preference caucus, which took place in January.
Main contenders
- For the GOP presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump is up against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley's campaign has gone full speed in the last week, attempting to gain as many voters as possible as this could be her last chance to beat Trump.
- Trump is ahead in the polls as he recently won 60% of the vote in South Carolina, Haley's home state, as well as 70% of the vote in Michigan.
- For the Democratic party, the options are President Joe Biden and Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn.). Biden is expected to take the win.
- Some candidates who have dropped out of the race may appear on the ballot, including entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Statewide elections
- Some voters will also have the chance to decide candidates for Senate, House, and governor races.
- California residents will be able to vote on the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat previously held by late-Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Sen. Laphonza Butler currently occupies the seat.
- North Carolina will vote in a high-stakes gubernatorial race, as Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has reached his term limit, and Republicans control the state legislature.
- Texan voters will choose the Democratic challenger to Sen. Ted Cruz, who is running for a third term.
- Alabamians will vote under a new congressional map, which created an additional district in the southwest corner of the state.
Are you voting on Super Tuesday?
-Jamie Epstein
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Our primary isn't till May and by then both parties' candidates will have sufficient delegates to be the presumptive nominee.
Ladies everywhere in America and in particular those who will get their chance here in March to VOTE (like Super Tuesday tomorrow), ...
Happy Women's History Month!
Roe, Roe, Roe Your VOTE!
cruz on the way out!!
Wake up Causes!
Biden lights up State of the Union!!!
Nicely done!
Where's the thread???
I can't vote until April 23, but I hope many voters show up to make their voices heard.
We will also get to see who wins the top spots in the California Senatorial primary to replace Sen. Feinstein, which affects us all.
For many reasons and for Biden. He was handed a pandemic, $8.5 trillion added to the deficit by corporate and the wealthy tax cut, plummeting job growth and supply chain shortages due to the pandemic, Putin and Hamas war, a world wider economic collapse due to the pandemic, climate crisis, Trump January 6 insurrection,Trump's dysfunctional Republican Party and the lies and deceit about the truth. The worst lies, are the lies you tell yourself!
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Hey murdoch you reap what you sow! You financed bozo and gave him a huge platform to spew his lies and scum. In fact you surrounded him with massive amplifiers - tucker hannity etc and he has already dented you by billions .... worse to come
both of you will go to your graves with the title 'biggest & most evil scumbags that ever existed'
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/media/donald-trump-super-tuesday-rupert-murdoch?cid=ios_app
Why Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday win is a defeat for Rupert Murdoch
You still want to vote republican?
take your state back to the 'midEvil' ages?
so called pro life?
this is a taste of what you get after rulings on abortion & ivf ...
Tennessee vaccine law pits parental rights against public health
For Trump, America is not Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on a Hill.” It is a banana republic. “We are a nation in decline, we are a failing nation,” Trump said in one such screed in Manchester, New Hampshire, in January, portraying the US as beset by rampant inflation, energy shortages, drug infested cities, out-of-control immigrant crime and even dirty, crowded airports. “Who are these people who would do this to us? Who are these people that would ruin our country?” Trump asked.
folks you dont have to look far or under the carpet for an answer
a simple and honest look at facts will show congress / scotus / republican 'leadership' and actions especially under mitch & bozo have collectively dumbed down half of america
thanks to social media one can see millions of examples of bizzare behavior and responses from maga cults - a total disconnect from history and real world
just look at ALL the attorneys who have represented bozo - they ALL have been bozofried!
how stupid can you be?
The dead have more rights than women!
Mitch McConnell endorses Donald Trump for president
Born Acquired & Thrust upon
stupidity & evil
https://youtu.be/wth2YE9pot0?si=dBVV9OiJ5pYz_Zey
we ALL know this is garbage
but
where are the dem voices ?
Mitch, thanks for your years of service. It's too bad the party has backed 45. I can't believe you'd support someone so corrupt and would do so much damage to our country. But then you've been party over country
Well, not too Super, if you ask me.
I'm happy to see that Haley finally won a state (Vermont, after winning the District of Columbia over the weekend), but I guess it's not enough.
I always said MAGA was never going to elect a woman, let alone a woman of color. We know they hate women in power and are inherently against people of color. It's great that she stayed in a while and gave many voters an alternative to the cult, but it wasn't enough.
I'm really concerned about the General Election, because there are far too many voters who don't like their choices but there's no remedy for that. Biden has an enthusiasm problem and T has no chance winning the suburbs and urban areas.
Once again, we really need to change our election system. But we still need democracy, because T is clearly going to destroy it if given the chance.
Republicans ... in their desperation to hold on to whatever 'power' they can due to their total lack of meaningful contribution to constituents ... have defied deviated defiled every moral code, civility and substantially broken america
the dems on the other hand have wimped out by not creating a robust platform and voice to nullify the lies and false messaging from cult leaders and amplify the solutions they have implemented
for every lie / fake message out there you need two if not three rebuttals immediately from well organized full dem team loud and clear!
a whimper now and then wont get you anywhere! Noise transforms perception to reality and we are drowning in it so much so that even scotus is scared shitless by trumps open threat
Frankly there is no difference between haiti's gangsters mobs and republican goons except haiti is now openly armed and run amok
the whole world is watching and understands the dog whistles and open threats! At a critical time when the world needs strong leadership we are mired in our own poop
I have already voted by mail even though I am discontented with many of the choices. At least I am not alone, a large number of people are not pleased with our current polical system and it's polarization. I hate that politics is now focused more on fund raising than on issues.
There should be one day set aside for a Primary for all states, just like we have one Election Day in November. This is nothing more than a Media carnival and free tv publicity for incumbents.
Two in coffin
america & democracy
congress prepped the coffins
scotus put the final nail in their coffins
time to find a new country