On today’s day, which is called “Super Tuesday” in the American political calendar, primary elections for the Democrats and Republicans are taking place in 15 states in the USA.
Republicans vote in the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia.
Democrats, on the other hand, vote in all the aforementioned states, except for Alaska, where the vote is on April 6. Democrats are also voting today in American Samoa.
A total of 865 delegates are allocated in the Republican race out of a total of 2,429, which are allocated from the entire cycle of primaries and caucuses. At least 1,215 delegates are needed to win the Republican presidential nomination, which delegates cast during the caucus-primary cycle will vote on at a party convention in July in Milwaukee. The most delegates won today on the Republican vote in the states of California and Texas, respectively, 169 and 161. North Carolina has 74 delegates. Tennessee and Alabama have 58 and 50 delegates, respectively. Virginia has 48 delegates. Oklahoma has 43 delegates. .In Arkansas, Utah, and Massachusetts, there are 40 delegates in each of the three states. Minnesota has 39 delegates. Colorado has 37. Alaska is next with 29 delegates. Finally, Maine and Vermont remain with 20 and 17 delegates, respectively.
About a third of the Democratic delegates are also allocated in the Democratic primary today.
The final results of all these votes will be announced in a few days, but the initial ones are expected state by state as early as tonight. In California, voters who vote by mail must do so no later than today, and ballots will be recognized as valid with a postmark from March 5 and if received by March 12, BTA reported.
Some of the states have so-called open primaries, where Republican voters can vote in Democratic primaries and vice versa. This makes the situation even more unpredictable.
More interesting is the battle in the Republican camp, where Nikki Haley continues to be against Donald Trump. So far, Trump has won the primaries and caucuses in nearly every state except Washington, D.C., where he beat Haley. Despite Trump’s calls for Haley to withdraw from the race, she has refused to do so, arguing that she has a duty to voters to give them a choice about whether she should stay in the race.
Polls show Trump leading in California and Texas, as well as Minnesota, Alabama and Maine. Trump’s campaign says he will likely win at least 773 delegates today.
For the Democrats, “Super Tuesday” is like a formality for Joe Biden, who has no competition for the Democratic presidential nomination, notes France Press. Biden is now also busy preparing his annual State of the Union Address, which he will deliver on March 7.
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