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Super Tuesday's Four Storylines
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's … Super Tuesday, when a total of 12 states -- 11 on the Democratic side, 11 on the GOP side -- today hold their presidential nominating contests, representing the biggest batch of delegates up for grabs in a single day in the 2016 race. And there are four storylines we'll be watching when the polls close tonight:
Super Tuesday's Four Storylines
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's … Super Tuesday, when a total of 12 states -- 11 on the Democratic side, 11 on the GOP side -- today hold their presidential nominating contests, representing the biggest batch of delegates up for grabs in a single day in the 2016 race. And there are four storylines we'll be watching when the polls close tonight:
1) Does Donald Trump run the table outside of Texas?
If he accomplishes this feat, as the polls suggest, he'll be set up to
put away the GOP race in two weeks, when Florida and Ohio hold their
winner-take-all contests. A great night for Trump is if he finds his
total delegate lead (for the entire GOP race) to be north of 200 over
his closest competitor. A not-so-great night would be an overall lead of
about 100 delegates. As the New York Times' Nate Cohn writes,
maybe the best opportunity for a non-Trump candidate to win a state
other than Texas is Rubio in Minnesota. Virginia is also a state to
watch. But if Trump wins both of them, he'll inch closer and closer to
being the runaway favorite for the GOP nomination.
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Source: NBC News
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