Super Tuesday live updates: Trump, Biden rack up wins as Haley keeps Vermont GOP primary too close to call

President
Joe
Biden
will
win
the
Democratic
primary
in
Utah,
NBC
News
projects.

Thirty
delegates
are
at
stake
in
the
primary.

Susan
Cissoko,
35,
told
NBC
5
that
she
was
voting
for
Biden
because
of
his
support
for
student
loan
debt
relief,
his
stance
on
social
services,
and
because
of
the
ethnic
makeup
of
the
Democratic
party.

“Although
I
don’t
100%
agree
with
Biden,
he
aligns
more
with
my
perspective
and
views
over
[Donald]
Trump
and
the
Republican
Party,”
Cissoko
told
the
television
station
while
dropping
off
her
mail-in
ballot
in
Provo.

Utah
has
six
votes
in
the
Electoral
College,
which
determines
the
winner
of
the
presidential
election
after
the
popular
vote
in
November.

Republicans
hold
a
nearly
4-to-1
edge
over
Democrats
in
registered
voters
in
Utah.

The
state
has
voted
for
a
Democratic
presidential
nominee
in
the
national
election
just
once
since
1952.

President
Lyndon
Johnson
won
Utah
in
1964,
when
the
Democrat
garnered
61%
of
the
national
vote,
the
largest
percentage
of
a
U.S.
presidential
candidate
since
1820.

–
Dan
Mangan

President
Joe
Biden
won
the
Minnesota
Democratic
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

The
victory
extends
Biden’s
lead
in
the
primary
over
his
rivals
that
have
included
Rep.
Dean
Phillips,
D-Minn.

Biden’s
wins
on
Tuesday
give
him
momentum
as
he
faces
a
tough
general
election
fight
against
Donald
Trump.

–
Brian
Schwartz

Trump
will
win
Colorado’s
Republican
presidential
primary,
NBC
News
projects,
a
day
after
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court
unanimously
reversed
the
state’s
ruling
to

remove
the
former
president
from
the
ballot.

He

lost
the
state
to
Biden
by
55.4%
to
41.9%
in
the
2020
election.

Trump
once
again
defeated
challenger
Nikki
Haley,
picking
up
more
Republican
delegates
on
the
way
to
the

1,215
needed
to
win
the
nomination.

In
December,
Colorado’s
Supreme
Court

blocked
Trump
from
the
ballot
in
a
primary
election
for
his
role
in
the
Jan.
6,
2021
insurrection
against
the
U.S.
Capitol.
U.S.
Supreme
Court
justices
ruled
Monday
that
no
state
can
ban
a
presidential
candidate
by
invoking
the
insurrection
clause
of
the
Constitution.

—Chelsey
Cox

Donald
Trump
has
won
the
Minnesota
Republican
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

–
Brian
Schwartz

President
Joe
Biden
will
win
the
Democratic
primary
in
Colorado,
NBC
News
projects,
defeating
challengers
Marianne
Williamson,
who

jumped
back
into
the
race
last
week
after
suspending
her
campaign,
and
Rep.
Dean
Phillips,
D-Minn.

The
president

won
the
state
during
the
2020
election,
55.4%
to
41.9%
over
former
President
Donald
Trump.

Winning
the
lion’s
share
of
Colorado’s
72
delegates
will
move
Biden
steadily
closer
to
the
1,968
delegates
he
needs
to
win
the
Democratic
nomination.

—Chelsey
Cox

Donald
Trump
has
won
the
Massachusetts
Republican
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

Some
people
who
voted
for
Trump
over
Nikki
Haley
said
they
don’t
believe
she
has
a
chance
to
win
the
general
election.

“I
don’t
think
she
can
win.
So
I
don’t
think
the
Massachusetts
primary
is
going
to
make
a
ton
of
difference
because
the
state
isn’t
gonna
go
for
Trump
so
it’s
moot.
It
would
be
more
interesting
if
we
were
in
Wisconsin,”
Jim
Kan,
a
Massachusetts
voter
who
chose
Trump
over
Haley,
told
NBC
News.

–
Brian
Schwartz

Donald
Trump
is
projected
by
NBC
News
to
win
the
Texas
Republican
presidential
primary.

There
were
161
delegates
at
stake
in
the
GOP
primary.

The
former
president
Trump
has
twice
won
Texas
in
the
national
presidential
election.

In
2016,
when
he
won
the
White
House,
Trump
defeated
Democratic
nominee
Hillary
Clinton
by
52.5%
to
43.5%
in
Texas.

Four
years
later,
Trump
bested
President
Joe
Biden
by
52.1%
to
46.5%.

–
Dan
Mangan

President
Joe
Biden
will
win
the
Democratic
primary
in
Texas,
NBC
News
projects.

There
were
244
delegates
at
stake
in
the
Democratic
primary

Jimmy
Carter
was
the
last
Democratic
presidential
nominee
to
win
in
Texas,
doing
so
in
1976
when
he
was
elected
to
the
White
House.

–
Dan
Mangan

Rep.
Jeff
Jackson
will
win
North
Carolina’s
Democratic
primary
in
the
attorney
general’s
race,
NBC
News
projects.

In
November,
Jackson
will
face
off
against
Rep.
Dan
Bishop,
a
Republican
hardliner,
who
won
the
GOP
attorney
general
primary
on
Tuesday
after
being
the
only
Republican
contender
in
the
field.

Jackson
threw
his
hat
in
the
ring
after
North
Carolina
redrew
its
congressional
map,
which
effectively
turned
his
purple
district
red.
Attorney
Tim
Dunn
and
Durham
County
District
Attorney
Satana
Deberry
were
also
in
the
Democratic
field.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

President
Joe
Biden,
a
Democrat,
and
former
Republican
President
Donald
Trump
are
projected
by
NBC
News
to
win
their
respective
political
parties’
primaries
in
Arkansas.

There
were
31
delegates
at
stake
in
the
Democratic
primary.

There
were
40
delegates
in
the
Republican
primary.

Former
President
Bill
Clinton,
who
had
served
as
governor
of
Arkansas,
is
the
last
Democrat
to
have
won
the
state
in
the
national
presidential
election.
Clinton
won
his
home
state
in
both
the
1992
and
1996
presidential
contests.

Arkansas
has
six
votes
in
the
Electoral
College.

–
Dan
Mangan

Biden
will
win
Alabama’s
Democratic
presidential
primary,
NBC
News
projects,
defeating
Rep.
Dean
Phillips
of
Minnesota,
his
only
challenger
on
the
ballot.

With
his
win,
the
president
inches
closer
to
the

1,968
Democratic
delegates
needed
to
seal
the
nomination
by
picking
up
a
majority
of
Alabama’s
52
delegates.

Biden

lost
the
state
to
Trump
by
a
large
margin
in
the
2020
presidential
race.

—Chelsey
Cox

Donald
Trump
will
win
Alabama’s
Republican
presidential
primary,
NBC
News
projects

—
a
state
he

won
over
Biden
by
62%
vs.
32.2%
in
the
2020
election

His
victory
over
former
United
Nations
Ambassador
Nikki
Haley,
who

won
the
primary
in
Washington,
D.C.
this
weekend,
places
him
a
step
closer
to
clinching
the
GOP
nomination.

Alabama
has
50
Republican
delegates.
GOP
candidates
need
to
secure

1,215
delegates
to
win
the
nomination.

—Chelsey
Cox

Donald
Trump
has
won
the
Maine
Republican
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

–
Brian
Schwartz

With
31%
of
the
vote
tallied,
the
Vermont
Republican
presidential
primary
showed
a
virtual
tie
between
former
President
Donald
Trump
and
former
United
Nations
ambassador
Nikki
Haley,
NBC
News
projected.

Polls
closed
at
7
p.m.
ET.
More
than
90
minutes
later,
Haley
had
garnered
48.3%
of
the
counted
vote,
while
Trump
had
48.2%,
according
to
NBC.

The
vote
is
still
coming
in.

There
are
17
delegates
available
to
the
GOP
candidates
in
Vermont.

Trump
is
the
overwhelming
favorite
to
win
the
overall
GOP
presidential
nomination.
Haley
has
vowed
to
remain
in
the
race
so
long
as
she
remains
“competitive.”

—

Kevin
Breuninger

President
Joe
Biden
has
won
Maine’s
Democratic
primary,
getting
one
step
closer
to
clinching
his
party’s
nomination
for
the
second
time,
NBC
News
projects.

The
win
gives
Biden
another
resounding
victory
over
Rep.
Dean
Phillips,
D-Minn.,
his
only
primary
opponent
running
in
the
state.

Local

polling
showed
that
Biden
was
the
clear
favorite
in
the
primary.

–
Brian
Schwartz

Donald
Trump
will
win
Oklahoma’s
Republican
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

Trump
has
a
successful
track
record
in
the
red
state,
having
secured
65%
of
the
electorate
in
both
the
2016
and
2020
general
elections.

Gov.
Kevin
Stitt
initially
endorsed
Trump’s
former
opponent
Florida
Gov.
Ron
DeSantis,
who
dropped
out
of
the
race
in
January.
Stitt
has
since
kissed
the
Trump
ring
and
cast
his
Super
Tuesday
vote
for
the
twice-impeached
former
president.
For
that
matter,
DeSantis
has
also
endorsed
Trump.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

Donald
Trump
will
be
hosting
a
party
this
evening
at
Mar-a-Lago,
his
private
club
in
Florida,
as
results
come
in
for
Super
Tuesday.

Trump’s
ballroom
is
filling
up
with
friends,
close
advisers
and
fans,
including
Georgia
Republican
Rep.
Marjorie
Taylor
Greene,
Trump
campaign
senior
advisor
Chris
LaCivita
and
Trump
rapper
Forgiato
Blow.

The
crowd
loudly
cheered
when
Fox
News
graphics
showed
Trump
winning
Republican
primaries
in
Virginia
and
North
Carolina.

Donald
Trump
will
win
Tennessee’s
Republican
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

The
former
president’s
victory
further
cemented
his
far-and-away
lead
ahead
of
his
remaining
GOP
challenger
Nikki
Haley.

Tennessee’s
leaning
for
November
is
far
from
a
cliff-hanger.
The
state
has
voted
red
in
every
general
election
since
2000.
Biden
lost
the
state
to
Trump
by
20
points
in
2020.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

President
Joe
Biden
has
won
the
Massachusetts
Democratic
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

The
win
gives
Biden
another
resounding
victory
and
gets
him
closer
to
clinching
his
party’s
nomination.

Biden
has
so
far
dominated
the
2024
primary
season,
winning
all
of
the
early
contests.

–
Brian
Schwartz

Biden
will
win
Tennessee’s
Democratic
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

The
president’s
November
chances
in
the
Republican-voting
state
are
still
slim.

In
2020,
he
lost
Tennessee
by
a
more
than
20-point
margin
to
Donald
Trump,
who
has
already
secured
endorsements
from
the
state’s
Republican
senators
this
election
season.

Despite
the
tough
odds,
Democratic
State
Rep.
Justin
Jones,
in
a
message
of
optimism
on
Tuesday,
urged
the
Biden
campaign
not
to
give
up
on
Tennessee:
“It’s
important
that
we
don’t
discount
southern
states.”

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

Biden
will
win
Oklahoma’s
Democratic
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

Oklahoma
is
a
deep
red
state
with
minimal
potential
for
Biden
in
November.
In

2020,
he
lost
the
Sooner
State
to
Donald
Trump
by
a
margin
of
over
30
points.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

North
Carolina
Attorney
General
Josh
Stein
will
win
the
state’s
Democratic
gubernatorial
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

Stein
has
the
endorsement
of
outgoing
Democratic
Gov.
Roy
Cooper
and
has
been
leading
the
Democratic
field
so
far.

North
Carolina’s
governor’s
race
is
a
bellwether
in
a
battleground
state
and
a
measure
of
the
Democratic
party’s
potential
in
the
state,
as
Biden
looks
to
flip
it
after
thinly
losing
it
to
Trump
in
2020.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

Polls
have
closed
in
Massachusetts,
Alabama,
Oklahoma,
Maine
and
Tennessee
—
but
the
presidential
primary
races
there
are
all
too
early
to
call,
NBC
News
projects.

—

Kevin
Breuninger

Lt.
Gov.
Mark
Robinson
will
win
North
Carolina’s
Republican
gubernatorial
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

Robinson
has
been
the
GOP
frontrunner
in
the
race
against
former
prosecutor
Bill
Graham
and
State
Treasurer
Dale
Folwell.
Robinson
secured
the
endorsement
of
Donald
Trump
on
Saturday.

North
Carolina
has
one
of
the
highest-profile
gubernatorial
races
this
election
season,
as
eyes
watch
for
whether
the
GOP
will
be
able
in
turning
the
outgoing
Democratic
governor’s
office
red.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

President
Joe
Biden
is
projected
by
NBC
News
to
win
the
Democratic
primary
in
Vermont,

Joe
Snell,
a
Democrat,
voted
for
Biden
in
Montpelier,
where
he
dismissed
any
concerns
about
Biden’s
age,
81.

“I
think
he’s
brilliant,”
said
Snell.
“I
know
that
many
people
think
he’s
too
old.
I’m
75.
So
I
think
that’s
a
pretty
darn
good
age.” 

Vermont
has
an
open
primary
system,
meaning
that
voters
can
cast
ballots
in
the
party
primary
of
their
choice,
without
regard
to
their
personal
political
affiliation.

The
state
has
3
votes
in
the
Electoral
College,
the
body
that
chooses
the
president
after
the
national
popular
election
in
November.

–
Dan
Mangan

President

Joe
Biden
will
win
the
North
Carolina
Democratic
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

Biden
was
the
only
Democrat
on
the
ballot
in
the
Tar
Heel
State’s
primary,
where
116
delegates
are
up
for
grabs.

He
now
faces
the
more
difficult
task
of
securing
the
battleground
state’s
support
in
the
general
election.

An
NBC
News
exit
poll
found
that
60%
of
North
Carolina’s
GOP
voters
did
not
think
Biden
legitimately
won
the
2020
election.

Biden
narrowly

lost
North
Carolina
to

Donald
Trump
in
2020.
Republicans
have
won
the
state
in
every
presidential
election
since
2008,
when
then-Democratic
nominee
Barack
Obama
defeated
GOP
rival
John
McCain.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

Donald
Trump
will
win
North
Carolina’s
Republican
presidential
primary,
NBC
News
projects.

Trump
defeated
Nikki
Haley
in
the
GOP
contest,
where
74
delegates
are
up
for
grabs.

Trump
in
2016
beat
then-Democratic
nominee
Hillary
Clinton
in
the
Tar
Heel
State
by
nearly
4
points,
and
eked
out
another
win
in
2020
against
President
Joe
Biden,
albeit
by
a
narrower
margin.

Democrats
have
signaled

plans
to
target
North
Carolina
in
the
presidential
general
election.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

Donald
Trump
will
win
the
Vermont
Republican
primary,
defeating
former
United
Nations
ambassador
Nikki
Haley,
NBC
News
projects.

Vermont
voters
last
voted
for
a
Republican
in
a
national
presidential
election
in
1988,
when
George
H.W.
Bush
was
the
party’s
nominee.

The
state
is
the
second
smallest
in
the
nation
by
population.
It
has
three
votes
in
the
Electoral
College,
the
body
that
chooses
the
president
after
the
popular
election
in
November.

–
Dan
Mangan

Former
president
Donald
Trump
has
won
the
Republican
presidential
primary
in
Virginia,
NBC
News
projects.

The
Virginia
primary
there
is
open,
meaning
that
anyone
can
vote
in
either
party’s
primary,
regardless
of
his
or
her
registration.

Exit
polls
across
the
commonwealth
revealed
a
pessimistic
electorate
that
overwhelmingly
feels
the
U.S.
economy
is
doing
poorly.

Just
24%
of
Republican
primary
voters
in
an
exit
poll
said
that
the
economy
was
in
“Excellent”
or
“Good”
shape,
while
75%
of
respondents
described
the
economy
as
“Not
so
good,”
or
“Poor.”

One
of
the
more
surprising
results
of
that
exit
polling
was
that
President
Joe
Biden
enjoyed
a
21%
approval
rating
among
Republican
primary
voters
in
Virginia.
That
is
a
relatively
high
number
given
the
fact
that
primary
voters
tend
to
be
among
their
political
party’s
most
partisan
members.

Overall,
election
outcomes
in
Virginia
have
been
steadily
shifting
to
the
left
over
the
past
decade.

But
the
results
of
the
commonwealth’s
2021
governor’s
race
cast
doubt
on
whether
the
Old
Dominion
has
gone
entirely
blue.

Republican
Glenn
Youngkin
was
elected
governor,
and
he
has
implemented
a
conservative
policy
agenda
since
he
was
sworn
in.

–
Christina
Wilkie

President
Joe
Biden
will
win
the
Democratic
primary
in
Virginia,
NBC
News
projects.
The
state
is
crucial
to
the
incumbent’s
path
to
reelection.

Virginia
is
represented
by
two
Democratic
senators,
Mark
Warner
and
Tim
Kaine.
But
in
2021,
the
state’s
voters
elected
a
Republican,
Glenn
Youngkin,
as
governor.

Youngkin’s
win
recalibrated
the
political
balance
in
a
state
that
has
been
trending
increasingly
Democratic
in
recent
election
cycles.

—
Christina
Wilkie

Over
half
of
Republican
primary
voters
in
North
Carolina
say
they
do
not
think
President
Joe
Biden
legitimately
won
the
2020
presidential
election
over
Donald
Trump,
according
to
an
NBC
News
exit
poll.

Just
34%
of
respondents
said
they
thought
the
Democratic
president
had
won
the
election
fairly.

Trump
has
spent
the
past
four
years
stoking
false
conspiracy
theories
that
the
2020
election
was
stolen
from
him.
His
efforts
have
produced
a
deep
distrust
in
the
integrity
of
U.S.
elections
among
many
Republican
voters.

–
Brian
Schwartz

President
Joe
Biden’s
political
operation
says
it
had
a
record
grassroots
fundraising
haul
in
February.

 “This
Super
Tuesday,
the
split
screen
between
our
campaign
and
Donald
Trump’s
operation
(if
you
can
call
it
that!)
couldn’t
be
more
stark:
President
Biden
continues
to
see
record-breaking
grassroots
enthusiasm
around
a
historic
and
winning
agenda,
while
Donald
Trump
is
poised
to
enter
the
general
election
broke,
saddled
by
his
unwavering
support
for
the
extremism
Americans
repeatedly
reject
at
the
ballot
box
–
undermining
our
democracy,
tax
giveaways
to
the
rich,
and
a
national
abortion
ban,”
Biden’s
deputy
campaign
manager
Rob
Flaherty
said
in
a
statement.

CNBC
asked
the
campaign
for
the
exact
numbers
of
this
fundraising,
but
they
did
not
reply
to
questions.

—
Brian
Schwartz

President
Joe
Biden
is
projected
by
NBC
News
to
win
the
Democratic
caucuses
in
Iowa.

Biden’s
projected
win
is
his
first
projected
victory
in
Super
Tuesday’s
primaries
and
caucuses.

—
Dan
Mangan

More
than
double
the
number
of
Republicans
turned
out
to
vote
as
Democrats
in
Fairfax
County,
Virginia,
a
county
that
is
currently
represented
by
an
all-blue
delegation.

Fairfax
County
Votes,
the
official
election
tracker
for
the
area,

reported
just
before
4
p.m.
ET
on
social
media
that
the
Democratic
primary
has
seen
2.7%
turnout
versus
the
Republican
primary’s
5.7%.
Virginia’s
polls
close
at
7
p.m.
ET.

Though
the
party
nominees
of
the
2024
race
are
nearly
a
foregone
conclusion,
Super
Tuesday
is
an
important
test
for
unknown
variables
such
as
voter
turnout,
which
can
be
read
as
an
indicator
of
voter
enthusiasm
and
could
be
a
deciding
factor
in
a
Biden-Trump
rematch.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

Republican
primary
voters
in
California
said
the
economy
is
the
most
important
issue
for
their
vote,
NBC
News
exit
poll
results
showed.

That
top
issue,
selected
by
a
43%
plurality,
was
followed
by
immigration,
which
garnered
39%,
in
the
exit
poll.

The
vast
majority
of
those
GOP
voters,
78%,
also
said
they
thought
Donald
Trump
would
handle
the
economy
better
as
president
than
Nikki
Haley.

—

Kevin
Breuninger

Republicans
in
Utah
will
select
their
choice
for
the
party’s
nominee
via
caucus,
while
Democrats
there
are
holding
a
traditional
primary
to
choose
their
favorite
candidate.

Republicans
will
gather
at
more
than
2,300
meetings
in
precincts
across
the
states
to
make
their
pick
starting
at
9
p.m.
ET.

Democrats
are
voting
during
the
day,
with
polls
closing
at
11
p.m.
ET.

There
are
more
than
890,000
registered
Republicans
in
Utah,
compared
to
fewer
than
230,000
registered
Democrats.

—
Dan
Mangan

“Anything’s
better
than
Trump
or
Haley,”
Denver
voter
Melissa
Magalif
told
NBC
News,
before
admitting
she’s
“not
Biden’s
biggest
fan
by
any
means.”

“I
have
been
personally
impacted
by
the
policies
that
Trump
made
when
he
was
president:
immigration
policies,
Muslim
ban,
his
Covid-era
policies,
and
having
been
personally
impacted
by
those
things
in
a
negative
way,
I
just
have
to
go
with
my
gut
on
this
one,”
Magalif
told
reporter
Jillian
Frankel
about
submitting
her
mail-in
ballot
for
Biden.

But,
she
added,
the
Biden
administration
will
have
a
lot
to
answer
for
concerning
its
approach
to
the
Israel-Hamas
War.
Magalif
said
she
is
a
member
of
the
Jewish-Israeli
community
and
identifies
as
LGBT.

“That
is
kind
of
what
scares
me
with
this
election
is
that
because
of
how
they’ve
handled
this
situation,
specifically,
and
how
it’s
so
fresh
in
everybody’s
minds,
why
it
could
end
up
going
back
to
Trump,”
she
said.
“So
I
think
if
they
do
win,
they’re
gonna
have
[to
rebuild]
the
trust
of
the
American
people.

Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
on
Sunday
called
for
an

immediate
six-week
cease-fire
between
Israel
and
Hamas
as
part
of
a
deal
to
release
hostages.

—
Chelsey
Cox

Robert
Kennedy
Jr.
is
not
on
presidential
primary
ballots
Tuesday
due
to
his
status
as
an
independent
candidate,
but
he
still
touted
himself
as
an
alternative
to
President
Joe
Biden
and
Donald
Trump
as
voters
went
to
the
polls.

Kennedy
retweeted
an
image
summarizing
a
recent
Fox
News
poll
leading
Biden
and
Trump
by
several
percentage
points
among
independent
voters
nationally.

“It’s
clear
Americans
want
to
break
free
from
the
two-party
system.
Let’s
unite
around
our
shared
values
and
get
down
to
business,”
Kennedy
wrote
in
that
X
post.
“Our
elected
officials
spend
more
time
fighting
across
the
aisle
than
actually
improving
the
lives
of
their
constituents.”

Kennedy,
who
is
a
vaccine
skeptic,
later
replied
to
an
X
post
about
Mandy
Cohen,
the
director
of
the
Centers
for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention,
announcing
that
an
updated
Covid-19
vaccine
is
expected
to
become
available
next
fall.

“Because
the
first
nine
shots
didn’t
protect
you,”
Kennedy
wrote.

—
Dan
Mangan

Billionaire
Mark
Cuban
called
Donald
Trump
a
“snake
oil
salesperson”
as
he
praised
President
Joe
Biden’s
reelection
bid.

“I
don’t
want
a
snake
oil
salesperson
as
President,”
Cuban
told
the
news
site

Axios
via
email.
“I’m
voting
for
Biden/Harris
over
Trump
all
day
every
day.”

Cuban
told
Axios
that
Trump’s
voters
“are
happy
with
their
snake
oil
whether
it
works
or
not.”

He
said
he
would
support
Biden
even
if
the
incumbent
president
were
on
his
deathbed.

“If
they
were
having
his
last
wake,
and
it
was
him
versus
Trump,
and
he
was
being
given
last
rites,
I
would
still
vote
for
Joe
Biden,”
Cuban
said.

Cuban,
who
is
now
a
minority
owner
in
the
National
Basketball
Association’s
Dallas
Mavericks,
was
at
the
White
House
on
Monday
for
a
meeting
about
prescription
drug
costs.
His
two-year-old
company
Cost
Plus
Drug
sells
generic
prescription
drugs
online.

—
Dan
Mangan

Former
President
Donald
Trump’s
campaign
has
been
quietly
trying
to
recruit
some
of
Nikki
Haley’s
wealthiest
supporters
to
come
over
to
their
side,
according
to
a
person
who
recently
heard
from
Trump’s
campaign.

One
of
the
asks
to
a
top
Haley
financier
occurred
as
recently
as
Monday,
the
eve
of
Super
Tuesday,
the
person
said.
Some
of
the
Trump
camp’s
charm
offensive
has
been
directed
at
her
Wall
Street
donors,
the
person
added.

Trump
has
beaten
Haley
in
all
but
one
of
the
primary
contests
so
far,
and
he
is
expected
to
dominate
the
field
on
Super
Tuesday,
when
more
than
800
delegates
are
up
for
grabs.

A
spokesman
for
Trump
did
not
respond
to
CNBC’s
request
for
comment.

—
Brian
Schwartz

First
Lady
Jill
Biden
is
taking
a
more
active
role
on
the
campaign
trail
as
her
husband,
President
Joe
Biden,
seeks
another
term
in
office.

But
Melania
Trump,
wife
of
Republican
presidential
front-runner
Donald
Trump,
appears
to
be
keeping
clear
of
the
spotlight.

The
former
first
lady
has
been
almost
completely
absent
from
Trump’s
latest
presidential
campaign,
leaving
him
on
his
own
as
he
gears
up
for
a
rematch
with
Biden.
She
has
also
declined
to
accompany
her
husband
to
his
many
court
appearances
as
he
fights
91
criminal
charges
and
multiple
high-profile
civil
penalties.

Trump
said

last
fall
that
his
wife
will
join
him
“pretty
soon.”
But
that
hasn’t
happened
in
the
runup
to
Super
Tuesday.

Jill
Biden,
meanwhile,
looks
to
be
taking
a
more
prominent
role
in
the
Democratic
incumbent’s
reelection
bid.

In
a

speech
in
Atlanta
on
Friday,
she
lashed
out
at
Trump
over
his
treatment
of
women
and
stance
on
key
women’s
issues,
including
abortion
rights.

“How
far
will
he
go?
When
will
he
stop?
You
know
the
answer:
He
won’t,”
she
said
of
Trump.
The

appearance
was
the
first
lady’s
first
stop
on
a
three-day,
four-state
swing
of
key
electoral
battlegrounds.

A
spokesperson
for
Melania
Trump
did
not
immediately
respond
to
CNBC’s
request
for
comment.

—

Kevin
Breuninger

With
North
Carolina’s
Democratic
Attorney
General
Josh
Stein
pursuing
a
gubernatorial
bid,
two
lawmakers
on
Capitol
Hill
are
looking
to
occupy
his
current
office.

Rep.
Dan
Bishop,
a
Republican
hardliner,
is
the
sole
Republican
candidate
in
the
state’s
attorney
general
race.
He
leaves
behind
a
seat
in
a
deep-red
district
that
has
sparked
a
GOP
race
to
succeed
him,
featuring
pastor
Mark
Harris
who
led
a
failed
congressional
run
in
2018.

Meanwhile,
Democratic
Rep.
Jeff
Jackson
is
competing
on
the
Democratic
side,
in
part
due
to
the
state’s
redrawn
congressional
map,
which
effectively
turned
his
purple
district
red.
Attorney
Tim
Dunn
and
Durham
County
District
Attorney
Satana
Deberry
are
also
in
the
Democratic
running.

If
none
of
the
candidates
in
the
North
Carolina
primaries
secure
a
30%
majority
or
higher,
the
top
two
will
head
to
a
runoff
on
May
14.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

This
Super
Tuesday,
the
top
presidential
candidates
are
working
from
home.

Donald
Trump
played
golf
Tuesday
morning
at
his
golf
club
in
West
Palm
Beach,
Florida,
a
few
minutes’
drive
from
his
Mar-a-Lago
resort
home,
a
source
told
NBC
News.

Trump’s
campaign
said
the
former
president
will
deliver
a
speech
at
Mar-a-Lago
in
the
evening.

President

Joe
Biden,
meanwhile,
returned
to
the
White
House
on
Tuesday
morning
after
spending
the
weekend
at
Camp
David.

He
is
slated
to
convene
a
White
House
council
meeting
in
the
afternoon
to
announce
new
actions
to
fight
“corporate
rip-offs.”

Former
United
Nations
ambassador
Nikki
Haley
told
CNN
on
Friday
that
she
will
be
in
her
home
state
of
South
Carolina
on
Tuesday
night,
even
though
the
state
already
held
its
primary
election,
which
she
lost
to
Trump.

—

Kevin
Breuninger

A
group
of
political
action
committees
financed
by
the
cryptocurrency
industry
spent
just
more
than
$13
million
on
congressional

primary
contests
taking
place
on
Super
Tuesday,
according
to
data
from
AdImpact.

The
data
shows
that
Fairshake,
one
of
three
crypto-backed
PACs,
has
spent
$9.5
million
on
television,
radio
and
digital
advertisements
against
Rep.
Katie
Porter,
D-Calif.,
who
is
running
for
California’s
open
Senate
seat
in
a
massive
primary
fight
against
Democratic
front-runner
Rep.
Adam
Schiff.

Protect
Progress,
another
crypto-supported
committee,
spent
$1.7
million
in
support
of
Shomari
Figures,
a
Democrat
running
in
a
primary
campaign
for
Alabama’s
2nd
congressional
district.

Defend
American
Jobs
spent
more
than
$1
million
backing
two
Republicans
running
for
House
seats
in
North
Carolina.

—
Brian
Schwartz

Pop
superstar
Taylor
Swift
used
her
hugely
popular

Instagram
account
to
urge
followers
to
vote
in
the
presidential
primaries
in
her
home
state
of
Tennessee
and
elsewhere.

“I
wanted
to
remind
you
guys
to
vote
the
people
who
most
represent
YOU
into
power,”
Swift
wrote
in
an
Instagram
Story
post.
“If
you
haven’t
already,
make
a
plan
to
vote
today.”

Swift
then
directed
her
282
million
followers
to
the
link
Vote.org
to
find
information
about
their
polling
locations.

The
singer
backed
President
Joe
Biden
in
the
2020
election.
Supporters
of
former
President
Donald
Trump
started
criticizing
Swift
months
ago,
in
the
expectation
that
she
would
endorse
Biden
again.

Before
the
Super
Bowl
game
in
February,
Swift
was
briefly
the
subject
of
a
bizarre
right-wing
conspiracy
that
imagined
that
her
romance
with
Kansas
City
Chiefs
star
tight
end
Travis
Kelce
was
a
stunt
designed
to
help
Biden’s
reelection
bid.

—

Dan
Mangan

Below
is
an
alphabetical
list
of
the
states
where
Americans
are
casting
ballots
today.

The
following
states
are
holding
both
Democratic
and
Republican
primaries:

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• North
  Carolina
• Oklahoma
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Vermont
• Virginia

In
Utah,
Democrats
are
holding
a
primary
while
Republicans
are
holding
a
caucus.

In
Alaska,
Republicans
will
caucus
while
Democrats
are
holding
their
primary
on
April
6.

Though
Republicans
already
settled

Iowa
in
the
first
primary
of
the
season,
Democratic
ballots
have
been
rolling
in
since
January
and
are
due
to
be
released
Tuesday.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

The
Colorado
primary
could
offer
Nikki
Haley
a
rare
opportunity
to
add
to
her
delegate
count.
Former
president
Donald
Trump
is
currently
leading
with

276
Republican
delegates
to
Haley’s
43.

The
state’s
37
delegates
are
awarded
proportionally
to
candidates
who
win
at
least
20%
of
the
vote.
According
to

NBC
News,
Haley’s
worst
case
scenario
would
still
likely
be
a
pickup
of
10
delegates.

Haley
typically
performs
better
than
Trump
among

Independents
and
center-right
Republicans,
according
to
Republican
strategist
Susan
Del
Percio.
A
third
of
the
total
votes
cast
so
far
in
the
Colorado
presidential
primary
came
from
voters
who
were
unaffiliated
with
either
party,

Axios
reports.

Haley
also
draws

outsize
support
from
affluent,
college-educated
Republicans.
Nearly
half
of
Colorado’s
population
age
25
and
older,
43.7%,
have
a
Bachelor’s
degree
or
higher,
per
the

U.S.
Census.

—
Chelsey
Cox

The
biggest
primary
race
to
watch
in
the
nation’s
most
populous
state
isn’t
the
one
for
president.

A
crush
of
candidates
are
vying
for
the
powerful
Senate
seat
formerly
held
for
two
decades
by
Dianne
Feinstein,
who

died
in
September.
Sen.
Laphonza
Butler,
whom
Gov.
Gavin
Newsom
picked
to
temporarily
fill
the
vacancy,
has
opted

not
to
run
to
keep
the
seat.

The
Senate
primary
in
California,
which
consistently
votes
blue
in
statewide
contests,
has
largely
looked
like
a
three-way
race
between
Democratic
Reps.
Adam
Schiff,
Katie
Porter
and
Barbara
Lee.

Schiff,
who
gained
national
prominence
for
his
leading
role
in
the
first
impeachment
of
then-President
Donald
Trump,
has
led
the
pack
in
ad
spending
and
polling.

But
Steve
Garvey,
a
Republican
former
pro
baseball
player,
has
seen
a
late
surge
in
the

polls,
even
though
his
campaign
has
placed
no
TV
ads.

That’s
likely
because
the
majority
of
Schiff’s

broadcasts
mention
Garvey,
while
none
mention
Porter.

It’s
a
strategy
that
could
pay
off
massively.
California
has
an
open
primary,
meaning
voters
can
select
any
party’s
candidate,
and
only
the
top
two
candidates
will
proceed
to
the
general
election.

If
Schiff
winds
up
competing
against
Garvey
in
the
general,
rather
than
Porter
or
Lee,
he
may
have
a
better
shot
at
winning
in
California,
which
hasn’t
had
a
Republican
senator
since

1992.

—

Kevin
Breuninger

North
Carolina’s
primaries
feature
several
competitive
down-ballot
races,
including
a
closely
watched
gubernatorial
primary
to
replace
term-limited
Democratic
Gov.
Roy
Cooper,
which
could
act
as
a
bellwether
of
the
battleground
state’s
leaning
in
November.

Gov.
Cooper
endorsed
the
state’s
Attorney
General
Josh
Stein
to
be
his
successor.
But
before
Stein
officially
secures
the
incumbent
party’s
nomination,
he
will
have
to
clear
a
crowded
Democratic
field.
Stein
is
up
against
four
opponents
including
former
state
Supreme
Court
Justice
Michael
Morgan.

If
he
is
the
Democratic
nominee,
Stein
could
face
a
November
matchup
against
Lt.
Gov.
Mark
Robinson,
who
is
leading
the
GOP
pool
so
far
and
has
Donald
Trump’s
endorsement.

Joe
Biden
is
looking
to
flip
North
Carolina
after
Donald
Trump
narrowly
won
the
state
by
just
over
one
percent
in
the
2020
general
election.
If
Republicans
are
able
to
turn
Gov.
Cooper’s
seat
red,
it
could
signal
how
the
swing
state’s
electorate
is
thinking
about
their
options
at
the
top
of
the
ticket.

—

Rebecca
Picciotto

Super
Tuesday
primary
voting
began
bright
and
as
early
as
6
a.m.
ET
in
Vermont,
with
President

Joe
Biden
and
former
President

Donald
Trump
looking
to
cement
their
leads
over
their
respective
remaining
intraparty
opponents.

In
the
Republican
primary,
17
delegates
are
up
for
grabs,
while
in
the
Democratic
contest,
there
are
16
delegates
at
stake.
Polls
will
close
at
7
p.m.
ET.

Vermont
has
an
open
primary
system.
Voters
can
choose
in
which
party
primary
to
vote,
regardless
of
their
personal
political
affiliation.

Vermont,
which
is
the
second-smallest
state
by
population,
will
award
just
three
votes
in
the
Electoral
College
after
the
presidential
election
in
November.

—
Dan
Mangan

The
battle
for
California’s
coveted
open
Senate
seat
is
still
a
long
way
from
the
general
election,
but
the
contest
is
already
the
state’s
most
expensive
Senate
race
of
all
time,
by
far.