Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Super Tuesday 2016: Live Updates

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Super Tuesday 2016: Live Updates

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
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.
Super Tuesday: Voters head to the polls, but not all are pleased by the choices

Election 2016

Super Tuesday 2016: Live Updates

Jennifer Steinhauer

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.
Kraig Moss, 57, of Owego, N.Y., played Donald J. Trump-themed songs on a guitar while supporters waited in line to attend the candidate's rally in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday. Mark Makela for The New York Times
Alan Rappeport

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.”

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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.
Voting began early at the town clerk’s office in Ripton, Vt. Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Katharine Q. Seelye

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.”
Voters at the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times
Michael Forsythe

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.
Alan Rappeport

Gov. Chris Christie endorsed Donald J. Trump before a campaign rally in Fort Worth on Friday. Cooper Neill for The New York Times
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.
Kara Braith, 17, marked her ballot at Hanover County Precinct 208 at the Oak Knoll school in Virginia, a state in which anyone who will be 18 at the time of the general election may cast a vote. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
Yamiche Alcindor

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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.”
John Corrales

Linda Forceno and Rickey King put out signs before the polls opened in Nashville on Tuesday. Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times
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.
Jonathan Martin
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Nate Cohn

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

What to Watch For on Super Tuesday

By JONATHAN MARTIN and NATE COHN
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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