Candidate to take on the incumbent donald trump on november 3rd tonight there are 1357. 00 thats about a 3rd of the democratic delegates and 785. 00 republican delegates are at stake people are voting across 14 states plus the u. S. Territory of american lets not forget democrats given a broad are also taking part well in the past 48 hours the democratic race has narrowed down dramatically with just 5 contenders left so so Bernie Sanders seems to be going head to head against former Vice President joe biden and this is how the numbers stack up after the primaries and caucuses in 4 states vermont senator Bernie Sanders has an early age of biden hes got 60 delegates ultimately to win the Party Nomination the democratic candidate will need to secure 1991 delegates theres the magic number up there and on the republican side its donald trump versus former governor william weld in the magic number to beat is 1276. 00 to emerge as republican frontrunner and trump of course is unquestionably in the lead there as well at g. M. T. The 1st polls will close in vermont the genea and parts of alabama with a total of 167. 00 democratic and 67. 00 republican delegates and North Carolinas polls close 30 minutes later the state has 110. 00 thats a pretty large chunk of democratic delegates at stake there theres no republican primary in virginia this year well weve deployed teams right across key battleground states for super tuesday White House Correspondent kimberly help it shes in the u. S. Capitol john hendren is at a polling station in Charlotte North Carolina kristen salumi is in West Palm Beach florida at a Mike Bloomberg event there alan fischer hell be joining us from a Democratic Watch Party in austin texas there is. And rob reynolds is coming all the way from the west coast in california at a Bernie Sanders watch party well joining me here on set was bought about tunnel is aljazeera senior political analyst my one bashara along with justin sage mitchell assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University in doha also joining us is joseph who are associated professor of Political Science texas a and m. University in doha but before we get to them that gets around up from our reporters fanned out across the u. S. We go 1st to our White House Correspondent kimberly how kits she is there kimberly so President Trump has been talking about the Democratic Party not liking. Trying to oust Bernie Sanders what was his strategy then going forward. If theres a reason the u. S. President donald trump continues to promote what many see as the infighting among the democrats because his strategy essentially is as long as he can keep democrats fighting amongst themselves theyre not focusing their attention and fighting him so we saw this strategy of full display on the eve of super tuesday donald trump held his own sort of preset were tuesday rally in Charlotte North Carolina where he continued to talk about how he believes the Democratic Party is treating Bernie Sanders its a wound that he sort of picked the scab off if you well because this brings up sort of some painful memories from 2016 when the president pointed out what many people in the United States believe is that Bernie Sanders got a bit of a raw deal and felt that the establishment kind of over ran his attempts that had to see in favor of Hillary Clinton so donald trump bringing up that old wound because again as long as hes doing this this is promoting sort of the controversy within the Democratic Party the spotlight is not on him and hes free to kind of move forward without any real challenge to his own candidacy yeah and can really so with super tuesday now here i mean who is the biggest challenger then at this point. Well at this point the white House Republicans on capitol hill are simply watching 2 candidates weve seen others drop off and thats the former Vice President joe biden also senator Bernie Sanders said both of them democrats say there would be very strong candidates but republicans have been quietly saying that they would like a fight with either one of these gentlemen they have been if you recall the impeachment issue with donald trump that the bidens names came up repeatedly on capitol hill so we know that already theres some sort sharpening theyre getting ready to kind of dig up some of that dirt and that was regard to senator sanders well of course just the word socialism democratic socialist republicans already fighting a campaign against that so they argue that either man would be a great candidate for donald trump to fight against because they believe the president can win of course ultimately its up to the voters to decide by rights i can believe the white house kimberly thank you polls in North Carolina close in just over an hour john hendren is that for us now hes in a polling station in the city of Charlotte John so North Carolina has 110 democratic delegates up for grabs thats pretty significant tell us whats happening the. 110 is the 3rd most number of delegates being voted on here on super tuesday after california and texas early polls seem to favor joe biden in many cases one of them favored Bernie Sanders but theres also the x. Factor of Michael Bloomberg this is the 1st day on which will show up on balance anywhere in the country and of course he showing up all over here on super tuesday weve seen from exit polls that 25 percent of those who voted here in North Carolina and in virginia are africanamerican that he possibly good for joe biden hes tended to you well know in polls with africanamericans. But nobody really knows whats going to happen this year. And that is because 2 of the most moderate candidates have backed out amy club which are and pete just to give you an idea of how dramatically this race has changed in recent weeks this is the North Carolina ballot theyve got 15 different Democratic Candidates only 5 of them are still in the race and if you subtract will see gabbert who is polling in this low Single Digits all of the other 4 are white and over 70 so its really anyones guess what could happen here but North Carolina in a sense is a microcosm of the rest of the country its got urban and rural areas its got a broad mix of ethnicities so if biden or sanders is used to do well here they would likely do well across the country but once again we dont know whats going to happen with Mike Bloomberg he has spent half a 1000000000. 00 on Television Ads and has yet to see a single vote cast in his name job losses talk about the primaries in virginia tennessee and minnesota and i make clear that saddam dorfman went to joe biden didnt think that the best in minnesota. Well in minnesota thats another one to do so any clue which i was pulling 2nd after Bernie Sanders but if you were to combine her boats her votes with those of joe biden. She could possibly be helped by overcome the advantage held by sanders but again nobody really knows voters dont do what people say yes as airily when it comes to those kind of indorsement so she is appearing on advertisements in minnesota and elsewhere with joe d biden these are tapes from the previous night where she endorsed him so its entirely possible bad could put her put him over the top i believe at 75 delegate votes there and then in tennessee there is the tragedy of a series of tornadoes that have killed Something Like 25 people that caused poles to open late they may close late so it may be considerably later tonight when we hear about what happens there virginia is another purple state one that could go democratic or republican and it may take a while before we know what happens in virginia but early polls d showed an advantage for biden but once again the changing nature of this race really means that it is point we just dont know whats going to happen yeah i think pretty unpredictable for now john hendren there in a polling station in North Carolina john thank you for that lets move on shall be kristensen to me is a Mike Bloomberg events in florida and joins us live now from West Palm Beach lets talk about Michael Bloomberg christine because its his 1st time officially on the primary ballot so where if anywhere does he stand a chance of picking up votes. That is the question to be answered Mike Bloomberg the former mayor of new york billionaire entrepreneur skipped the 1st 4 nominating contests to focus on super tuesday in the many delegates up for grabs here its a strategy thats never worked before but theres never been a candidate with the resources of Mike Bloomberg whos already spent more than half a 1000000000. 00 on advertising and setting up a field offices all around the country he is focusing on a lot of the smaller states that are. Voting today that typically dont get a lot of attention from candidates places like oklahoma tennessee massachusetts hoping to appeal to the more moderate wing of the party who might be concerned that Bernie Sanders is too far to the left and cant beat donald trump come november hes counting on his management credentials to appeal to those moderate voters it seemed to be working. Before his. Seem to be working when biden was joe biden the Vice President was faltering in the early state races but joe biden has since done very well in South Carolina has gotten a lot of support from africanamerican voters thats a particular weakness for Mike Bloomberg that Community Remembers him as a mayor who used very targeted Police Tactics in new york against their community and thats something that does not poll well with them and has not shown them showing him support so thats something that he will have to overcome but he is hoping to overtake joe biden as the moderate voice in this race and hes again harping on his experience as not only a manager but as an executive of the largest city in new york of course not so to answer your question as to where he might when he might not win any states today but he is hoping to get at least enough delegates to stay alive in some of the states down here since these are not winner take all state chris and i think many people are asking why is Mike Bloomberg even in florida because its a state that isnt even voting today. Yeah that was the question that i asked his Campaign Someone there told me that they are looking past super tuesday florida is a very important swing state in the United States elections its got 219 delegates for grabs. He was poing well here prior to his to bew debate performance which did not go so well he seemed to stall a little bit in florida after that but this is a state that tends to be a bit more moderate than say a california or some of the other states that are voting today and ongoing the florida electorate has a strong percentage of cuban americans Bernie Sanders comments and support of socialism and fidel castro dont do well here so he thinks that this is a place where he can do well and hes sending a signal as well that hes in this race beyond super tuesday even if he doesnt win the state today hes going to stick around and keep on fighting one other reason he may be here in florida President Trumps mar a lago resort is literally like a 15 minute drive away from here and the president and Mike Bloomberg have been going at each other on twitter this morning and really since bloomberg entered the race the president likes to call him mini mike hes a relatively short compared to the president Mike Bloomberg has been given it right back to him on twitter and denigrating the job that hes been doing on coronavirus and so forth so being so close to Donald Trumps headquarters may not be a coincidence here or as a christmas i mean in West Palm Beach and for the christian will no doubt be looking how Mike Bloomberg does tonight for super tuesday thank you very much indeed well polls in the primaries in texas will close in about 2 and a half hours time but still to alan fischer who joins us from austin allen so texas of course is the other big prize on super tuesday its hugely diverse isnt it with all the candidates folk. Seeing their efforts there what are the prospects of a joe biden win there then. All the other thing you have to remember about texas as well is that a lot of young people have registered to vote here over the last year or so the whole dynamic of politics in texas changed all of that came about after the election in 2018 more ted cruz almost lost his seat in the senate for the republicans when he was challenged by a 2 or rourke that energized a lot of young people who thought wait a minute we can actually do something here and not lead to a huge drive to register a lot more people and many of them are democrats and theyre voting today were hearing reports of long queues at many of the polling stations in fact not far from here theres one at the local university where there are still large lines chances of joe biden when well everythings out the window according to the polls because of whats happened in the last 2436 hours who would have thought that people were to judge and maybe clubbish are would leave the race before super tuesday normally candidates want to see whats happened in super tuesday and then decide to leave it would be wrong to suggest though that all of their supporters will immediately go to the more moderate candidate who is regarded as joe biden that may be true with shar but its not automatically true with people to judge in fact if you go back to iowa and some of the contests since then many people were asked if people to judge was in the race who would be your 2nd choice and many of them said Elizabeth Warren and certainly speaking to voters here in texas over the last 23 days Elizabeth Warrens name is the one that we keep hearing no thats not to suggest that shes going to spring a surprise here. Joe biden is expected to do well in fact just last night he had a huge rally in dallas it brought on stage people to judge an equal share of bitter d or and got their indorsement but if the polls before all that happened to be believed and Bernie Sanders has a lead here then that changes the dynamic of the democratic race. Quite significantly because hes expected to do well in los angeles and california and rob reynolds will talk about that more in a moment but if he takes the california and he takes texas the 2 biggest delegate halls on super tuesday then that put some well on the way to winning the nomination is going to take a colossal fight to stop him and of course the more power he gets through the ballot box the more his supporters will expect the Democratic Party to get behind him rather than as they suggest 4 years ago or perhaps erroneous late that the the nomination away from him in favor of Hillary Clinton so texas for many reasons is hugely important in the next few hours and alan you can also talk to us about alabama are console and oklahoma i believe so whats driving voters there to choose the person that they believe can take down trump in november. Its well you know if you look at it in plain terms why did donald trump do well in these states well theyre traditionally republican ok lets take that box but he spoke to the people who felt they were disenfranchised they were disaffected with the system they werent getting from the elites from the people that they were voting for the sort of things that they felt the should be getting and the should deserve who has spoken to that message more clearly than anyone and it is perhaps Bernie Sanders so be interesting to see how he does in these states is john was suggesting and of course going to be a problem with tennessee because of the awful events there in the last 24 hours with the number of people dead and that has delayed voting but it still got 61 delegates to give up so that is a very important state might bloomberg has poured a lot of money into those states so be interesting to see what he does and youve got to remember this is the 1st time might bloomberg has appeared on the ballot anywhere hed missed the 1st 4. 00