Republican Super Tuesday Polls Live Updates: Donald Trump will aim to deliver a Super Tuesday knockout blow to his lone challenger for the Republican US presidential nomination Nikki Haley, as 15 states hold Republican contests on the biggest voting day of the primary season. The former president, who has dominated the Republican campaign from the start despite his litany of criminal charges, has swept all but one of the contests so far.
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Super Tuesday is the day in the US presidential primary cycle when the most states vote. In the Republican contest, 865 of 2,429 delegates will be up for grabs, including from the two most populous states, California and Texas. Contest-by-contest, the Republican delegate counts for the Super Tuesday votes are: Alabama (50), Alaska (29), Arkansas (40), California (169), Colorado (37), Maine (20), Massachusetts (40), Minnesota (39), North Carolina (74), Oklahoma (43), Tennessee (58), Texas (161), Utah (40), Vermont (17) and Virginia (48).
To win the presidential nomination of the Republican party, either of the two candidates needs 1,215 delegates, who are elected during the primaries. So far, Trump has 244 delegates in his kitty, while Haley’s strength stands at 43.
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