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- It’s “Super Tuesday,” when 12 states vote. Maggie Haberman took your questions on Reddit.
- Here’s a guide to poll closing times (the first round is at 7 p.m. Eastern) and the number of delegates per state.
- Check out our delegate calculator to see how the Republican race might unfold.
Paul Ryan Addresses Panic Over Donald Trump
Reflecting
the growing panic on Capitol Hill over the ascendancy of Donald J.
Trump, Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday denounced the New York
businessman’s refusal to distance himself from the former Ku Klux Klan
leader David Duke.
“If a person wants to
be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no
games,” Mr. Ryan told reporters in Washington after his weekly meeting
with House Republicans. “They must reject any group or cause that is
built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people’s prejudices. We
appeal to their highest ideals. This is the party of Lincoln.”
Mr. Ryan, who has
pledged to support the Republican nominee, has been peppered with
questions over the last week about how members of his party can both
succeed in November’s elections but not get pulled into the more
contentious aspects of Mr. Trump’s campaign.
“This is fundamental,”
Mr. Ryan said. “And if someone wants to be our nominee, they must
understand this. I hope this is the last time I need to speak out on
this race.”
While Mr. Ryan has
been careful to try to ignore Mr. Trump’s garden variety outbursts and
name calling, he becomes riled over remarks that he feels violate the
inclusiveness of the party.
His remarks came after Senator Ben Sasse, the freshman Republican from Nebraska, began a one-man attack on Mr. Trump on social media, explaining why he will never vote for him.
Senator Ben Sasse Warns He May Leave Republican Party Over Donald Trump
Senator Ben Sasse,
a Republican from Nebraska, continued to warn on Tuesday of the dire
consequences his party faces if it nominates Donald J. Trump and vowed
never to vote for him for president.
A vocal opponent of Mr. Trump
for months, the freshman senator said that he would find a new
political party if the New York businessman becomes the standard-bearer
for Republicans.
“I want to celebrate
what’s great about America in the Republican Party, but if the
Republican Party becomes the party of David Duke, Donald Trump, I’m
out,” Mr. Sasse said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program on Tuesday.
Mr. Sasse’s public
resistance to Mr. Trump could give other Republicans in Congress cover
to distance themselves from him if he wins the nomination. He said that a
leadership vacuum in the party left it open to a hostile takeover.
“Let’s first recognize
that the Republican Party is just a tool, as all political parties
are,” Mr. Sasse said, lamenting that Mr. Trump has expressed admiration
for dictators in Russia, China and North Korea. “And I signed up for the
party of Abraham Lincoln, not the party of David Duke, Donald Trump.”
Super Tuesday: From Past to Present
Video: By TURNER COWLES
The idea of Super
Tuesday is a relatively recent introduction into presidential politics.
The first one was in 1984, when President Reagan was the uncontested
Republican candidate. It has changed since.
Some Voters Feel Forced to Choose the Best Bad Option
CHELSEA,
Mass. — A voter on Tuesday at the Williams School, in this diverse,
blue-collar inner suburb of Boston, said he had one overpowering
motivation for going to the polls.
“I detest Hillary
Clinton,” said Peter Nielsen, 63, a mechanical engineer. “Among the
field this year, she’s the most two-faced.”
He added, “You can’t take $65,000 or whatever it was for a half-hour speech at Goldman Sachs and pretend to care.”
Mr. Nielsen blames
Goldman for the Great Recession in 2008, the year he was laid off. “I’m a
sublimely qualified engineer, and it took me eight months to find
another job,” he said. “So I’m not a friend of the big bankers.”
He voted for Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, but only because he felt he had no other options.
“I’m not even that
much in favor of Bernie,” he said. “I’m an Independent, and I’ve been
trending more Republican in the last few years, but in Massachusetts at
the national level, Republicans have no resonance.”
Americans Abroad Walk Into a Bar, and Vote
HONG KONG — While most “Super Tuesday” voters were still sleeping, voting in the presidential primaries was well underway.
In Hong Kong.
American expatriates
in this former British colony not only had to choose between Bernie
Sanders and Hillary Clinton, but they also faced another, wrenching
choice: the I.P.A. or the lager at the Tipping Point Brewing Company,
one of 121 sites worldwide where members of Democrats Abroad could cast
ballots to determine the makeup of the 17 delegates – only one less than
Wyoming – who will vote at the party’s July convention in Philadelphia.
Living overseas makes
voting more of a hassle than it would otherwise, and many United States
citizens living outside the country – there are about 60,000 in Hong
Kong alone, about the population of Ames, Iowa – don’t even bother with
casting absentee ballots in the primaries. Democrats offer an
alternative, a chance to cast presidential primary ballots in person —
or by email, post or fax.
Voting in a bar,
somehow, got people to mingle. That was just fine for Hallie Engel, 34,
who grew up in Alaska and voted for Mr. Sanders.
“It’s kind of nice to know that you can go out and meet like-minded people,” she said.
Kirk Troy, 46, who is
from Richardson, Tex., and researches Chinese companies for a living,
likes the concept of drinking and voting. He cast his ballot for Ms.
Clinton then bought a glass of Hoppy Lager for just under $10.
“I think this needs to be enshrined in the Constitution,” he said.
Hong Kong wasn’t even
the first place to vote on Tuesday. That honor belonged to Americans in
Wellington, New Zealand, who gathered after midnight – in true Dixville
Notch, N.H., style – to be the first voters in the world to vote on
Super Tuesday, said Alex Montgomery, a spokesman for Democrats Abroad,
who was registering people to vote at the bar. Mr. Sanders won that
contest.
New Hampshire Newspaper Apologizes for Its Christie Endorsement
The New Hampshire
Union Leader, which went to war with Donald J. Trump and endorsed Gov.
Chris Christie, offered an apology to its readers on Tuesday for backing
the wrong candidate.
Mr. Christie dropped out of the presidential race after a weak finish in New Hampshire and last week endorsed Mr. Trump,
calling him the best remaining leader in the field despite their policy
differences. For Joseph W. McQuaid, publisher of The Union Leader, this
was heresy.
“Boy, were we wrong,” Mr. McQuaid wrote in an editorial that essentially retracted the endorsement of Mr. Christie.
Mr. Trump regularly
assailed the newspaper after Mr. McQuaid criticized him publicly and Mr.
Christie’s campaign received a brief lift when it offered him its
endorsement. Ultimately, Mr. Christie finished in sixth place in New
Hampshire, where he spent months campaigning.
The publisher said on
Tuesday that he thought the New Jersey governor had the best experience
to be president and that he was most likely to be able to face down Mr.
Trump. He also claimed that Mr. Christie promised him that he would
never endorse Mr. Trump.
The newspaper, he said, regretted its error.
“Watching Christie
kiss the Donald’s ring this weekend — and make excuses for the man
Christie himself had said was unfit for the presidency — demonstrated
how wrong we were,” Mr. McQuaid wrote.
An Optimistic Bernie Sanders Votes for Bernie Sanders
Photo: Sam Hodgson for The New York Times; Video: By REUTERS
BURLINGTON, Vt. —
Senator Bernie Sanders began “Super Tuesday” by casting a ballot at his
polling station in Vermont around 7:30 a.m., saying he is “feeling
great” about his prospects.
Mr. Sanders, dressed
in a black winter jacket and accompanied by his wife, Jane, came to the
Robert Miller Community and Recreation Center, checked in with the
station’s staff members, then voted for himself.
“After a lot of
deliberation I know that Bernie Sanders here in Vermont got at least one
vote,” Mr. Sanders joked. “I was working on my wife. So I probably got
two. So we are feeling pretty good.”
Moments later, Mr.
Sanders told more than a dozen reporters that he is optimistic about
Tuesday’s races in which Democrats vote in 11 states. The senator also
repeated a pledge to fight for the nomination until the party’s
convention this summer.
“Our hope is that we
can win a number of states and in those states where we don’t do well,
obviously we want as large a vote as possible,” Mr. Sanders said. “This
is a campaign that is going to the Philadelphia convention in July.”
The senator also said
Super Tuesday is “an enormously important day” and cast the day as an
opportunity to start the political revolution he says is necessary to
transform America. He also said, in a now familiar assertion, that he
will do well on Super Tuesday if voter turnout is high.
After Mr. Sanders cast
his ballot, he stayed to take selfies with several voters. “I will tell
you after a lot of thought, I voted for me for president,” a smiling
Mr. Sanders told one man after taking a selfie with him.
The man patted him on the back and laughed. “Congratulations Bernie,” the man said. “Good luck out there.”
Where the Candidates Are
With 12 states, an American territory, an overseas nominating process called Democrats Abroad and the most delegates allocated in a single day, “Super Tuesday” is the biggest prize of the 2016 nomination battle.
The five remaining
Republican presidential candidates are vying for 661 delegates, and the
two Democratic presidential candidates will compete for 1,034 delegates.
A look at where they will be spending the day.
- Ben Carson holds an Election Night party in Baltimore.
- Hillary Clinton has planned an Election Night party in Miami.
- Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will visit a polling site in Houston, where he is scheduled to vote, then hosts a party in Stafford, Tex.
- Gov. John Kasich of Ohio planned a town-hall-style event in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a rally in Warren, Mich.
- Senator Marco Rubio of Florida holds a rally in Andover, Minn., then looks forward to March 15 by heading to his home state of Florida for a rally in Miami.
- Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will host a rally in Essex Junction in his home state of Vermont. He voted Tuesday morning in Burlington.
- Donald J. Trump is scheduled to host rallies in Columbus, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky., before holding a news conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club, which he owns, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Verbatim: Donald Trump Calls Himself Crusader for Equality
There’s nobody who has done so much for equality as I have. You take a look at Palm Beach, Fla, I built the Mar-a-Lago Club. Totally open to everybody.”
— Donald J. Trump, renouncing the support of white supremacists, on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday.
A Guide to the Voting
Tuesday is the largest voting day of primaries and caucuses for both parties, with 11 states apiece and about a quarter of all delegates at stake. See what time polls close and how many delegates are at stake in each state.
What to Watch For
Voters
in 12 states go to the polls on Tuesday as Donald J. Trump and Hillary
Clinton, who have had the most success in the early nominating contests,
look to extend their delegate leads over their nearest rivals. A look
at some of the things we will be watching.
What to Watch For on Super Tuesday
Sweeping victories by the Republican and
Democratic leaders would leave little doubt where the race is headed,
but there are opportunities for their rivals.
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