Americans weigh in on who they want to be their nominees for president. What voters are telling us as the results start to come in. Bidens too old, and trumps a little too crazy. Norah the context and analysis now on the Cbs Evening News. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us on this Super Tuesday. The biggest primary day of the election cycle. Tonight could be the kickoff to the 2024 General Election, and ultimately, a rematch between joe biden and donald trump. That would be the first time in more than 100 years for a sitting president and a former president. Millions of votes still to be counted. Cbs news predicts former President Trump will win the primary in texas. And has won nine states so far tonight on his way to capturing the republican nomination. We do want to focus on vermont for just a moment shaping up to be the closest race of the g. O. P. Primary today with more than half the votes counted, the race is still considered a toss up. President bi
Its the biggest election day of the year so far. Welcome to cnns Special Coverage of super tuesday im wolf blitzer in washington and im kate bolduan in new york. The first polls are closing in just a few hours from now. And turnout in states like North Carolina is strong as millions of americans and six next extreme states are now voting for republicans. It is a big day, 865 delegates are at stake. Donald trump expected to win most of them making the republican front runner almost unstoppable potentially. By the end of this light tonight, trump is expected to be within striking distance of the 1,215 delegates needed to win the republican president ial nomination, which raises the big question, what does nikki haley do next . Our less than an hour will be getting our first early clues about the outcome of tonights vote. Thats where we get the first results from our exit polls. We have our reporters fanned out across the nation right now is better. Voters are heading to the polls. I want
Polled today say they opposed the tea party. If you look at all the big issues that animated the political debates over the last couple months whether it was cultural wars like abortion or the government shutdown, we see a very strong reaction to this electorate against the conservative side on those issues. One out of five voters, i think this was a high number, said they thought abortion was their top issue in this election. And of those people and the evidence is that theyre prochoice. 6140 percent. We have to keep reminding ourselves that virginia is so important because it is exactly the Bellwether State for the union. Just about exactly what the nation is. I would say virginia has become the new ohio in many ways. Richard nixon used to say its all about ohio. Its all about virginia now. And the fact that women turned out in overwhelming numbers apparently in support of Terry Mcauliffe is big. Lets look at that number. The nbc news exit poll shows women in virginia breaking for
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pictures of secretary clinton leaving and proceeding to go downtown to new york city. thank you so much for the report. the first polls will close a little more than an hour from now in parts of indiana and kentucky with the rest of the country following throughout the evening. it will be a while before cnn or anyone will be able to call any of the states. we ll get the first exit polling information in a few minutes. cnn political director david chalian joins me. what kind of information are we expecting to see in the exit polls? these are interviews we do across the country as people are leaving the polls telling us how they voted and why they voted. the kind of information we look for right away is sort of the makeup of the electorate, along racial lines, age, education, gender. these are the kinds of things that will sort of look and give us the tapestry of what the electorate looks like tonight
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