Good evening welcome to see spans coverage of super tuesday. It is called super for a reason. ■tonight republicans 854 delegates are on the line. About one third of the gop total. And for the about 30 tir tot. These are4 of the 16 states re■ui■kportinges today. Alaska will a begin reporting its results at midnights. And after tonight for iowa comic the results of that refmed primary tonight the voters there have been meddling in their president ial preference curtains generally 15th the state held its first in the nation caucuses. Live former President Donald Trump sam florida for rehear victory remarks from him. Republican rival nikki haley is not sched tonight and is reportedly watching results with staff in South Carolina. President biden on the ballot ig remarks according to the white house. Fort republicans, the magic number to secure the nomination is 1215 delegates. California and texas being the two biggest states by populatios tonight 169 for california and a 161 for texas. For democra 1968 delegates are needed to win the nomination. President bidens reen bid is expected to clinch the minaon this month it wont happen tonight. So f he has got 206 delegates up we will still fall short even with tonights expected victory. Part of our coverage of course includes a conversation with all of you start dialing and now 7488920. Democrats 202 7488921. Super tuesday voters dial in 202 7488922. And all others 2027488923. You can also text us includes a first name city and state 2027488903. Join us on x cspan or on facebook. Com cspan. Heres aoo at what to expect tonight arty polls closed 7 00 p. M. Eastern in vermont and virginia. Republicans in alaska also ted their president ial caucuses at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. At 7 30 northina polls closed and now at 8 00 p. M. Eastern polls closed in a and tennessee. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern time polls close in arkansas and then at 9 00 p. M. East in colorado, minnesota, and texas. Utah voters will wrap up their voting at 11 00 p. M. Eastern for those republicans encompassing voting for democrats stops at 10 00 p. M. Eastern. Eleven eastern is been california polls close alaska is last up at midnight. As with us this evening wrought results will start with the states very. Happy super tuesday to you. There are few that have come in. What serve the one you mentioned of North Carolina polls close a associated p vote total donald trump already leading handily 28. 1. The primary and North Carolina already declared the winner wh 90 of the votes they know preference line were voters could put protest votes against joe bid just 10 therapy to the of virginia on the republide of the aisle donald trump declared the winner with virginia 60 the exhibit expected vote total for the evening and virginia nikki haley 32 that racelrdy declared by the Associated Press over it donald trump the winner joe biden ao declared the winner. 35 of the expected vote total in virginia and vermont polls close in vermont at 7 00 p. M. Eastern time. And 16 of the expected vote total in donaldrump about 51 nikki hay at7 . That might be one of the new england at where nikki haley is seen as having a bette chance of having a more competitive race against donald trump. Well keep an eye on vermont and maine as wellin a few other states in the new england area. One other piece of news not on the president ial side of the aisle but denies state Senate Christian sinema will not seek reelection will be stepping down at the end of this year. Thats coming announcement in a key state seen as a competitive rate and control in november her decision takes her out of the fight and that competitive state democratic congressman of arizona former Arizona Republican gubernatori nominee kerri at lake the two most closely watch candidates likely to be to wait race with the senator stepping down. New simple results all night long. Its the only result super tuesday throughout the night. Next part of our conversation also includes Natalie AllisonNational Political reporter with politico. Now you just heard the early results. You have been watching them as well. What are your takeaways sonot mi haley to the extent she was going to get any good news virginia and North Carolina both states shield to events in each in t pas week. She was barnstorming the country hitting super states she said shes not getting out she staying in through super tuesday. So far no good news for her vermont as a state as you noted that could be close for her. She may not lose by much. That is not going to help her case. What we are seeing so far as what we have seen in primary after primary so far this cycle. Donald trump is dominating by really big margins. What we are seeing and virginia the votes are still being tallied he is up more than 30 points at this time. That could chang somewhat is not close for haley most places. What other states is that haley campell watching tonight . Massachusetts posted just close. We should be seeing results and pretty soon if not already. It is a state states the Haley Campaign with some banking on. She could have the support from the governor there and she also had New Hampshire governor out campaigning with her around new england this past weekend. But massachusetts like some states like maine is a state that could potentially have an electric that be more place like maine youre only having diehard conservatives voting. Maine is open to a wide variety of voters. The type of demographics the Haley Campaign has been leaning on and counting on to come out for them. But as we saw in New Hampshire it was ideal voters normally vote democratic or independent who have a moderate independent type streak are not holding ■7to jumper the republin party, they did turn out. They did not get her closer than 11 points. And so will we might see you tonight in massachusetts will probably not be enough to carry the state. Why is nikki haley not delivering remarks tonight after some of these polls close question what we traditionally see with candidates. Will it is a departure from what she has done every big primer at night so far this year. We saw her give remarks after iowa even when she came in third place and after New Hampshire and South Carolina and the big Election Night events and her supporters which are her on even do that. He did not win. Part of that has just been because they were anticipating what is likely going to be a night of a lot of losses for her. And she is going to have to decide what she is going to do. At this point would likely not going to hear from her tonight that she is dropping out. Shes watching the results with her staff. She staying close to home hear from her in the coming days. I think she is saving her remarks for when she announces what shes going to do next. Her options right now are limited. She could say shes getting out as many people expect her to do in the coming days or she could say shes in until the moment trump secures enough delegates to officially be the presumptive nominee she may not give it up so easily. E als will not hear from President Biden tonight, why not . Well this is mostly a big night for the Biden Campaign they want to continue to sit back and let republicans go after each of the call nikki haley previously one of the best circuits for democrats because she is going after trump so hard. Even as republicans are telling her to stop doing this youre going to hurt our the general election if you keep a talking chat. She is still attacking trump on the Biden Campaign for president in this tonight trump is going to sweep most of these primaries are going to continue to point to him as being what they would call eight maca republican who is not going to lead the country in the right direction for as long as nikki are going after each other and particularly nikki haley attacking trump on some the same arguments there is not really a big need for them to try to get ahead the messaging more tonight. And Natalie Allison with a politico here to talk with all of you this evening. Well get your calls here in just a minute. But fi■h lets talk about when the former president , President Trump when he would secure the nomination. At what point in this primary contesand the same for President Biden . What remains to be seen just exactly how many delegates trump will get tonight. Your folks probably have the number of 1200 something to get to say without a doubt he be the presumptive nominee i would have the delegates you need on the floor of the Republican National convention in milwaukee this july. That depends on how well he does tonight. That coulday bit. Otherwise we have contests contest comingup in places liked places very trump friendly and a primary. He is on the brink of getting to the point where nikki haley could no longer she is staying and the fight potentially she could catch up with trump on the delegate map. We are pretty much beyond that point but after tonight that it therewould be nearly 50 of the delegatesated. So after tonight there will have been 25 states and territories that have cap the ballots. Big y states that we saw iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, nevada, it includes them and includes a primaries we see and one of those was washington d. C. And otherwise trump has won all the other is certainly on track to continue that in the coming days. Soon trump will be able to say theres literally mathematically no path for nikki haley to be able to win on the floor counts. We are not officially there yet. So until we are at that point nikki haley has been connuing to makel could be shot for her. All right, main results are starting to t. Feel of the eecd vote in. This is what the Associated Press has right now the former president with 87. 5 f the expected vote nikki haley trailing at 12. 5 . The state of maine g delegate allocation 20 delegates at stake if any candidate receives more than 50 of the boat will get all the delegates if not delegates will be proportionately divided 20 of the vote. Lets get the calls michelle re. Michelle, it is super tuesday. What are your thoughts on the campaign so far . I am so excited that everything we expect and hope for that trump isnt winning preheat showing he is the tried to unite us all again. I am a delicate out here in Washington State i am more than happy to we are excited to cast our vote for him cin in our state convention. We are really thrilled we have nikki haley. Hopefully she will tur in and not move forward. She is a lobbyist for boeing, theyve been pushing really hard for nikki haley but we are confident washington is going to come through. Will continue. Tell us■ h delegate . We have to hear the voices of our constituet and vote that way. Weve been out doorknocking weve been out talking with people we have doorknocking in the area feedback everyone in my district is pro trump. We are confident the delegate vote will go forward for trump. Even though a lot of people think we are a blue state we are a red state this just a few counties that hold us back here. Washington is going to turn red x Natalie Allison. It is interesting to hear the excitement on the ground for trump art you look at washington its a place that could potentially, surprisingly have a competitive Gubernatorial Race here. And in that race likely republican nominee is he says he doesnt want to be seen with him. It is interesting the conventional wisdom the electorate in a place like Washington States controls elections is shown the future th but you are hearing someone who is a republican voter in Washington State is not cheering on haley who isnt sayin w looking for a more moderate voice she is very much a supporter of trump. It is an illustration of how the Republican Party is trying to grapple with how they can win and pollute leaning states with trump on the ticket. Will he hold them back at whatoe Gubernatorial Race or will they not . Nikki haley certainly makes the argument that if she were on the aleut general election ballot republicans would sweep house races around the country. She performed so much better than biden. They get who were not super partisan are typically not voting republican to show up and vote for her. As ahat will be an interesting dynamic how they will inevitably respond and how that could affect other races there. Raven in californiaican. Raven a big state voting today. Yes it is. So thank you. California is one of the lord lt states in the United States. It is a wonderful that we had the opportunity to vote and especially being a voter myself i did eight mail ballot myself this year. So with that being iing im pro trump as well. And i hope everything will be fine with mr. Biden i dont know what its about but i definitely when hear from him. Tonight youre talking about . Yes. We talked about that earlier, Natalie Allison, we will not hear from the president tonight. The rationale you explain key briefly tells again . Yes this is not a nail night mail nightbiter night for biden. Hes the only real competition on the democratic primary ballot and of course there are some democrats in a number of states who are uncommitted equivalent in their state to register their lack of support for biden how he is handled but that being said theres no question joe biden is going to remain the nominee this is not necessary big night for him like it is for some like donald trump who actually did have some real competition this time around. Up next is jon and madison, Wisconsin Democratic collar hi jon. Hi, how are you doing. I think we need a new person n the convention. We need to drop by then and have Something Like cory booker or work or gavin newsom. We need to legalize marijuana in this country. Companies are takg over they charge way too much the drugs are evil for their evil especially fentanyl and tobacco. First comment. Natalie allison is the white house watching the uncommitted or tonight and which state . Of course they are watching. There watching across the board. I was reported in tennessee was watching social media posts from people back in nashville who uncommitted in the democratic primary there. This is something they are sitting across the board for this is Something Big going to have to deal with. But offsn course the ramificatis would beat swing states that could potentially be close with trump and biden. So in a place like North Carolina and even virginia the Trump Campaign says are going to try to make it competitive this fall in november bidens Democratic Base is not turning out en masse for him, they are potentially supporting a Third Party Candidate instead of joe biden that could be a concern should the Biden Campaign. That is something they a right now. Just like the caller event regardless of the war in israelf this uncommitted vote. Even beyond that there are Many Democrats think the preside is too old they say they would like to see another nominee but there was no processing with the party there was no pressure on biden. Other influential democrats a year ago. And so that ship has really sailed some kind of Major Medical the Democratic Party all they can do at this point is try to fight back. Iowa, North Carolina, tennessee all have that option for uncommitted scott in hutchinson, kansas. Hello, thank you for taking my call. I really enjoy cspan and washington journal in the morning. Getting a good balance news. My question is really about potential getting the rank voting into our electoral system. A lot of people do not want to throw away their and they only have the one choice. But innate rank voting thing you can make preferences. I think it would actually be more Democratic Party is interesting listening to the debate on today i think there were five off Party Candidates that get very, very little press. The libertarian party, thereen party, their ideas within each one of them that have value but we are stuck with just two. I think at some the polls coming out tonight you can see some the op wishing they had more choices and dont want to throw away a boat because they dont want the othert at the same timd prefer some of the other candidates. Got it. Well take tho Natalie Allison. Whats he is right across the board. Its not just the democrats by the way. They do not want to see a rematch between joe biden and donald trump. It is not what people once they do not want to have to choose between the two candidates hang at the partisan primary system we have has kept americans with this choice. The republican primary voters a very active republican overwhelmingly still love donald trump those are not the people who are going to be deciding the election this fall. And on the other hand the democrats overwhelmingly are going to support joe biden in these primaries. But the folks who are deciding the elections, the swing voters and suburban voters, independents and handful of states who determine whos going to be the next president of the United States and those of the people who do not want