Live updates on major election

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff will win California’s Senate major race, adopted by Republican former MLB star Steve Garvey, NBC News tasks.

The projected end result means Schiff and Garvey will advance to the overall election to compete for the Senate seat previously held by Dianne Feinstein.

Schiff and Garvey defeated a big discipline of challengers in California’s “jungle primary” race, the place the highest two finishers advance, no matter celebration affiliation. Among them had been Democratic Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, who each campaigned on progressive platforms.

California is a deep blue state, so Tuesday’s outcomes portend particularly properly for Schiff, who’s now the one Democrat within the race.

President Joe Biden gained California in 2020 by almost 30 factors over Donald Trump. The final Republican presidential candidate to win California was George H.W. Bush, in 1988.

— Kevin Breuninger

The California Senate major result’s too near name, NBC projected shortly after polls within the state closed at 11 p.m. ET.

California has an all-party “jungle” major system, by which the highest two candidates, no matter celebration, transfer forward to the overall election.

— Kevin Breuninger

Donald Trump will win California’s Republican presidential major, transferring him one massive step nearer to clinching the GOP nomination, NBC News tasks.

The name got here shortly after polls closed at 11 p.m. ET. Trump was broadly anticipated to defeat Nikki Haley within the California major and win all 169 of its accessible delegates.

The Golden State carries the most important delegate bounty of the 15 states holding major elections on Super Tuesday, the place 865 GOP delegates are up for grabs.

Trump got here into the week with 276 delegates. He wants 1,215 to safe the Republican presidential nomination.

— Kevin Breuninger

President Joe Biden will win California’s Democratic major, NBC News tasks.

The name got here moments after polls closed within the state at 11 p.m. ET. There are 424 pledged delegates up for grabs within the state’s Democratic major, greater than in every other Super Tuesday race.

Biden was broadly anticipated to simply trounce his few long-shot major challengers within the Golden State and the remaining contests on the street to the Democratic presidential nomination.

— Kevin Breuninger

In a grim Super Tuesday victory speech, Donald Trump portrayed America underneath President Joe Biden as a rustic on the point of dying. And he blamed migrants for most of the nation’s woes.

“Our cities are choking to death. Our states are dying. And frankly, our country is dying,” Trump claimed in a darkish, apocalyptic 18-minute speech at his Florida resort dwelling Mar-a-Lago.

A number of hundred of his mates and supporters had gathered to have fun his major wins.

Trump alleged that Biden and his allies “want open borders, and open borders are going to destroy our country.”

“Our cities are being overrun with migrant crime, and that’s Biden migrant crime,” Trump claimed.

There is paltry proof for Trump’s accusations. According to an NBC News evaluation of 2024 crime knowledge, the U.S. cities which have obtained essentially the most migrants have skilled reducing general crime ranges.

“In some ways we’re a third-world country,” Trump stated elsewhere within the speech, singling out the border and elections.

Trump for years has falsely claimed that his loss to Biden within the 2020 election was rigged by widespread voter fraud. He continues to falsely declare he gained that election.

— Kevin Breuninger

Democratic Texas Rep. Colin Allred will face Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in November, NBC News tasks.

Allred is the newest Democrat to attempt to unseat Cruz, who has been within the Senate since 2013. Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke tried however did not beat Cruz throughout the 2018 election.

– Brian Schwartz

The longshot Democratic challenger to beat President Joe Biden in a Super Tuesday contest was not a Minnesota congressman nor a self-help writer.

It was Jason Palmer, a Baltimore-based enterprise capitalist.

Palmer took 56% of the vote in American Samoa’s Democratic caucus, which is 51 out of the U.S. territory’s whole 91 votes solid.

“Honored to announce my victory in the American Samoa presidential primary. Thank you to the incredible community for your support,” Palmer wrote on X Tuesday evening. “This win is a testament to the power of our voices. Together, we can rebuild the American Dream and shape a brighter future for all.”

Palmer has labored at Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He earned a bachelor’s diploma from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, in keeping with his marketing campaign web site.

Palmer constructed his marketing campaign platform on boosting small companies and utilizing his entrepreneurial, capitalist background to “to transform the federal government to run more like a high-tech, highly-efficient, well-respected business that puts its customers’ needs first.”

— Rebecca Picciotto

Nikki Haley is projected by NBC News to win the Republican presidential major in Vermont.

Haley’s projected victory comes two days after her first major victory, within the District of Columbia

The former South Carolina governor is the one severe challenger to ex-President Donald Trump within the GOP presidential nomination contest. Haley served because the United States ambassador to the United Nations throughout the Trump administration.

Vermont has an open major system, which permits folks to vote within the celebration major of their selection, no matter their political affiliation.

Paul Somerset, a Democrat from Montpelier who owns a property administration firm, informed NBC News, “I voted Republican for the first time in my life because I wanted to vote for Nikki Haley because I would like to see her beat or at least be strong enough to make Trump look weak.”

“This is an anti-Trump vote,” stated Somerset. “I’m not voting for Haley.”

Somerset, who was considered one of a number of Democrats to explain strategically voting for Haley to thwart Trump within the major, referred to as the previous president’s bid to return to the White House “the most dangerous thing I’ve seen since I’ve been voting in 1978.”

“It scares the hell out of me,” he stated.

Vermont has three votes within the Electoral College.

The final Republican presidential nominee to win Vermont within the nationwide election was former President George H.W. Bush, in 1988.

– Dan Mangan

President Joe Biden warned that Donald Trump “is determined to destroy our democracy” as he stated Super Tuesday’s outcomes depart American voters “with a clear choice” between him and the Republican former president.

“Are we going to keep moving forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backwards into the chaos, division, and darkness that defined his term in office?” Biden requested in a press release.

“Four years ago, I ran because of the existential threat Donald Trump posed to the America we all believe in,” Biden stated. “Since then, we’ve made enormous progress: 15 million jobs, wages rising faster than inflation, taking on Big Pharma and the gun lobby — and winning. But we have more to do.”

If Trump is returned to the White House, “all of this progress is at risk,” stated Biden.

“He is driven by grievance and grift, focused on his own revenge and retribution, not the American people” stated the president.

“He is determined to destroy our democracy, rip away fundamental freedoms like the ability for women to make their own health care decisions, and pass another round of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy — and he’ll do or say anything to put himself in power.”

– Dan Mangan

President Joe Biden will lose the Democratic caucus in American Samoa to little-known candidate Jason Palmer, NBC News tasks.

Palmer’s victory is a hanging consequence for Biden, who has tallied up win after win Tuesday evening.

American Samoa, a U.S. territory, solely held a Democratic caucus.

— Rebecca Picciotto

President Joe Biden will win the Democratic major in Utah, NBC News tasks.

Thirty delegates are at stake within the major.

Susan Cissoko, 35, informed NBC 5 that she was voting for Biden due to his help for scholar mortgage debt reduction, his stance on social providers, and due to the ethnic make-up of the Democratic celebration.

“Although I don’t 100% agree with Biden, he aligns more with my perspective and views over [Donald] Trump and the Republican Party,” Cissoko informed the tv station whereas dropping off her mail-in poll in Provo.

Utah has six votes within the Electoral College, which determines the winner of the presidential election after the favored vote in November.

Republicans maintain an almost 4-to-1 edge over Democrats in registered voters in Utah.

The state has voted for a Democratic presidential nominee within the nationwide election simply as soon as since 1952.

President Lyndon Johnson gained Utah in 1964, when the Democrat garnered 61% of the nationwide vote, the most important proportion of a U.S. presidential candidate since 1820.

– Dan Mangan

President Joe Biden gained the Minnesota Democratic major, NBC News tasks.

The victory extends Biden’s lead within the major over his rivals which have included Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn.

Biden’s wins on Tuesday give him momentum as he faces a troublesome basic election struggle towards Donald Trump.

– Brian Schwartz

Trump will win Colorado’s Republican presidential major, NBC News tasks, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the state’s ruling to take away the previous president from the poll.

He misplaced the state to Biden by 55.4% to 41.9% within the 2020 election.

Trump as soon as once more defeated challenger Nikki Haley, selecting up extra Republican delegates on the way in which to the 1,215 wanted to win the nomination.

In December, Colorado’s Supreme Court blocked Trump from the poll in a major election for his position within the Jan. 6, 2021 riot towards the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Supreme Court justices dominated Monday that no state can ban a presidential candidate by invoking the riot clause of the Constitution.

—Chelsey Cox

Donald Trump has gained the Minnesota Republican major, NBC News tasks.

– Brian Schwartz

President Joe Biden will win the Democratic major in Colorado, NBC News tasks, defeating challengers Marianne Williamson, who jumped again into the race final week after suspending her marketing campaign, and Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn.

The president gained the state throughout the 2020 election, 55.4% to 41.9% over former President Donald Trump.

Winning the lion’s share of Colorado’s 72 delegates will transfer Biden steadily nearer to the 1,968 delegates he must win the Democratic nomination.

—Chelsey Cox

Donald Trump has gained the Massachusetts Republican major, NBC News tasks.

Some individuals who voted for Trump over Nikki Haley stated they do not consider she has an opportunity to win the overall election.

“I don’t think she can win. So I don’t think the Massachusetts primary is going to make a ton of difference because the state isn’t gonna go for Trump so it’s moot. It would be more interesting if we were in Wisconsin,” Jim Kan, a Massachusetts voter who selected Trump over Haley, informed NBC News.

– Brian Schwartz

Donald Trump is projected by NBC News to win the Texas Republican presidential major.

There had been 161 delegates at stake within the GOP major.

The former president Trump has twice gained Texas within the nationwide presidential election.

In 2016, when he gained the White House, Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 52.5% to 43.5% in Texas.

Four years later, Trump bested President Joe Biden by 52.1% to 46.5%.

– Dan Mangan

President Joe Biden will win the Democratic major in Texas, NBC News tasks.

There had been 244 delegates at stake within the Democratic major

Jimmy Carter was the final Democratic presidential nominee to win in Texas, doing so in 1976 when he was elected to the White House.

– Dan Mangan

Rep. Jeff Jackson will win North Carolina’s Democratic major within the legal professional basic’s race, NBC News tasks.

In November, Jackson will face off towards Rep. Dan Bishop, a Republican hardliner, who gained the GOP legal professional basic major on Tuesday after being the one Republican contender within the discipline.

Jackson threw his hat within the ring after North Carolina redrew its congressional map, which successfully turned his purple district purple. Attorney Tim Dunn and Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry had been additionally within the Democratic discipline.

— Rebecca Picciotto

President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and former Republican President Donald Trump are projected by NBC News to win their respective political events’ primaries in Arkansas.

There had been 31 delegates at stake within the Democratic major.

There had been 40 delegates within the Republican major.

Former President Bill Clinton, who had served as governor of Arkansas, is the final Democrat to have gained the state within the nationwide presidential election. Clinton gained his dwelling state in each the 1992 and 1996 presidential contests.

Arkansas has six votes within the Electoral College.

– Dan Mangan

Biden will win Alabama’s Democratic presidential major, NBC News tasks, defeating Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, his solely challenger on the poll.

With his win, the president inches nearer to the 1,968 Democratic delegates wanted to seal the nomination by selecting up a majority of Alabama’s 52 delegates.

Biden misplaced the state to Trump by a big margin within the 2020 presidential race.

—Chelsey Cox

Donald Trump will win Alabama’s Republican presidential major, NBC News tasks — a state he gained over Biden by 62% vs. 32.2% within the 2020 election

His victory over former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who gained the first in Washington, D.C. this weekend, locations him a step nearer to clinching the GOP nomination.

Alabama has 50 Republican delegates. GOP candidates have to safe 1,215 delegates to win the nomination.

—Chelsey Cox

Donald Trump has gained the Maine Republican major, NBC News tasks.

– Brian Schwartz

With 31% of the vote tallied, the Vermont Republican presidential major confirmed a digital tie between former President Donald Trump and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, NBC News projected.

Polls closed at 7 p.m. ET. More than 90 minutes later, Haley had garnered 48.3% of the counted vote, whereas Trump had 48.2%, in keeping with NBC.

The vote continues to be coming in.

There are 17 delegates accessible to the GOP candidates in Vermont.

Trump is the overwhelming favourite to win the general GOP presidential nomination. Haley has vowed to stay within the race as long as she stays “competitive.”

— Kevin Breuninger

President Joe Biden has gained Maine’s Democratic major, getting one step nearer to clinching his celebration’s nomination for the second time, NBC News tasks.

The win provides Biden one other resounding victory over Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., his solely major opponent operating within the state.

Local polling confirmed that Biden was the clear favourite within the major.

– Brian Schwartz

Donald Trump will win Oklahoma’s Republican major, NBC News tasks.

Trump has a profitable observe document within the purple state, having secured 65% of the citizens in each the 2016 and 2020 basic elections.

Gov. Kevin Stitt initially endorsed Trump’s former opponent Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who dropped out of the race in January. Stitt has since kissed the Trump ring and solid his Super Tuesday vote for the twice-impeached former president. For that matter, DeSantis has additionally endorsed Trump.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Donald Trump will likely be internet hosting a celebration this night at Mar-a-Lago, his non-public membership in Florida, as outcomes are available for Super Tuesday.

Trump’s ballroom is filling up with mates, shut advisers and followers, together with Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump marketing campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita and Trump rapper Forgiato Blow.

The crowd loudly cheered when Fox News graphics confirmed Trump successful Republican primaries in Virginia and North Carolina.

Donald Trump will win Tennessee’s Republican major, NBC News tasks.

The former president’s victory additional cemented his far-and-away lead forward of his remaining GOP challenger Nikki Haley.

Tennessee’s leaning for November is much from a cliff-hanger. The state has voted purple in each basic election since 2000. Biden misplaced the state to Trump by 20 factors in 2020.

— Rebecca Picciotto

President Joe Biden has gained the Massachusetts Democratic major, NBC News tasks.

The win provides Biden one other resounding victory and will get him nearer to clinching his celebration’s nomination.

Biden has to this point dominated the 2024 major season, successful all the early contests.

– Brian Schwartz

Biden will win Tennessee’s Democratic major, NBC News tasks.

The president’s November possibilities within the Republican-voting state are nonetheless slim.

In 2020, he misplaced Tennessee by a greater than 20-point margin to Donald Trump, who has already secured endorsements from the state’s Republican senators this election season.

Despite the robust odds, Democratic State Rep. Justin Jones, in a message of optimism on Tuesday, urged the Biden marketing campaign not to surrender on Tennessee: “It’s important that we don’t discount southern states.”

— Rebecca Picciotto

Biden will win Oklahoma’s Democratic major, NBC News tasks.

Oklahoma is a deep purple state with minimal potential for Biden in November. In 2020, he misplaced the Sooner State to Donald Trump by a margin of over 30 factors.

— Rebecca Picciotto

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein will win the state’s Democratic gubernatorial major, NBC News tasks.

Stein has the endorsement of outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and has been main the Democratic discipline to this point.

North Carolina’s governor’s race is a bellwether in a battleground state and a measure of the Democratic celebration’s potential within the state, as Biden seems to flip it after thinly dropping it to Trump in 2020.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Polls have closed in Massachusetts, Alabama, Oklahoma, Maine and Tennessee — however the presidential major races there are all too early to name, NBC News tasks.

— Kevin Breuninger

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will win North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial major, NBC News tasks.

Robinson has been the GOP frontrunner within the race towards former prosecutor Bill Graham and State Treasurer Dale Folwell. Robinson secured the endorsement of Donald Trump on Saturday.

North Carolina has one of many highest-profile gubernatorial races this election season, as eyes look ahead to whether or not the GOP will likely be in a position in turning the outgoing Democratic governor’s workplace purple.

— Rebecca Picciotto

President Joe Biden is projected by NBC News to win the Democratic major in Vermont,

Joe Snell, a Democrat, voted for Biden in Montpelier, the place he dismissed any considerations about Biden’s age, 81.

“I think he’s brilliant,” stated Snell. “I know that many people think he’s too old. I’m 75. So I think that’s a pretty darn good age.” 

Vermont has an open major system, that means that voters can solid ballots within the celebration major of their selection, with out regard to their private political affiliation.

The state has Three votes within the Electoral College, the physique that chooses the president after the nationwide in style election in November.

– Dan Mangan

President Joe Biden will win the North Carolina Democratic major, NBC News tasks.

Biden was the one Democrat on the poll within the Tar Heel State’s major, the place 116 delegates are up for grabs.

He now faces the harder activity of securing the battleground state’s help within the basic election.

An NBC News exit ballot discovered that 60% of North Carolina’s GOP voters didn’t suppose Biden legitimately gained the 2020 election.

Biden narrowly misplaced North Carolina to Donald Trump in 2020. Republicans have gained the state in each presidential election since 2008, when then-Democratic nominee Barack Obama defeated GOP rival John McCain.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Donald Trump will win North Carolina’s Republican presidential major, NBC News tasks.

Trump defeated Nikki Haley within the GOP contest, the place 74 delegates are up for grabs.

Trump in 2016 beat then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton within the Tar Heel State by almost Four factors, and eked out one other win in 2020 towards President Joe Biden, albeit by a narrower margin.

Democrats have signaled plans to focus on North Carolina within the presidential basic election.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Donald Trump will win the Vermont Republican major, defeating former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, NBC News tasks.

Vermont voters final voted for a Republican in a nationwide presidential election in 1988, when George H.W. Bush was the celebration’s nominee.

The state is the second smallest within the nation by inhabitants. It has three votes within the Electoral College, the physique that chooses the president after the favored election in November.

– Dan Mangan

Former president Donald Trump has gained the Republican presidential major in Virginia, NBC News tasks.

The Virginia major there’s open, that means that anybody can vote in both celebration’s major, no matter his or her registration.

Exit polls throughout the commonwealth revealed a pessimistic citizens that overwhelmingly feels the U.S. economic system is doing poorly.

Just 24% of Republican major voters in an exit ballot stated that the economic system was in “Excellent” or “Good” form, whereas 75% of respondents described the economic system as “Not so good,” or “Poor.”

One of the extra stunning outcomes of that exit polling was that President Joe Biden loved a 21% approval score amongst Republican major voters in Virginia. That is a comparatively excessive quantity given the truth that major voters are typically amongst their political celebration’s most partisan members.

Overall, election outcomes in Virginia have been steadily shifting to the left over the previous decade.

But the outcomes of the commonwealth’s 2021 governor’s race solid doubt on whether or not the Old Dominion has gone totally blue.

Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected governor, and he has carried out a conservative coverage agenda since he was sworn in.

– Christina Wilkie

President Joe Biden will win the Democratic major in Virginia, NBC News tasks. The state is essential to the incumbent’s path to reelection.

Virginia is represented by two Democratic senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. But in 2021, the state’s voters elected a Republican, Glenn Youngkin, as governor.

Youngkin’s win recalibrated the political steadiness in a state that has been trending more and more Democratic in latest election cycles.

— Christina Wilkie

Over half of Republican major voters in North Carolina say they don’t suppose President Joe Biden legitimately gained the 2020 presidential election over Donald Trump, in keeping with an NBC News exit ballot.

Just 34% of respondents stated they thought the Democratic president had gained the election pretty.

Trump has spent the previous 4 years stoking false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from him. His efforts have produced a deep mistrust within the integrity of U.S. elections amongst many Republican voters.

– Brian Schwartz

President Joe Biden’s political operation says it had a document grassroots fundraising haul in February.

 “This Super Tuesday, the split screen between our campaign and Donald Trump’s operation (if you can call it that!) couldn’t be more stark: President Biden continues to see record-breaking grassroots enthusiasm around a historic and winning agenda, while Donald Trump is poised to enter the general election broke, saddled by his unwavering support for the extremism Americans repeatedly reject at the ballot box – undermining our democracy, tax giveaways to the rich, and a national abortion ban,” Biden’s deputy marketing campaign supervisor Rob Flaherty stated in a press release.

CNBC requested the marketing campaign for the precise numbers of this fundraising, however they didn’t reply to questions.

— Brian Schwartz

President Joe Biden is projected by NBC News to win the Democratic caucuses in Iowa.

Biden’s projected win is his first projected victory in Super Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses.

— Dan Mangan

More than double the variety of Republicans turned out to vote as Democrats in Fairfax County, Virginia, a county that’s at the moment represented by an all-blue delegation.

Fairfax County Votes, the official election tracker for the realm, reported simply earlier than Four p.m. ET on social media that the Democratic major has seen 2.7% turnout versus the Republican major’s 5.7%. Virginia’s polls shut at 7 p.m. ET.

Though the celebration nominees of the 2024 race are almost a foregone conclusion, Super Tuesday is a vital check for unknown variables corresponding to voter turnout, which will be learn as an indicator of voter enthusiasm and could possibly be a deciding consider a Biden-Trump rematch.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Republican major voters in California stated the economic system is crucial difficulty for his or her vote, NBC News exit ballot outcomes confirmed.

That high difficulty, chosen by a 43% plurality, was adopted by immigration, which garnered 39%, within the exit ballot.

The overwhelming majority of these GOP voters, 78%, additionally stated they thought Donald Trump would deal with the economic system higher as president than Nikki Haley.

— Kevin Breuninger

Republicans in Utah will choose their selection for the celebration’s nominee through caucus, whereas Democrats there are holding a conventional major to decide on their favourite candidate.

Republicans will collect at greater than 2,300 conferences in precincts throughout the states to make their decide beginning at 9 p.m. ET.

Democrats are voting throughout the day, with polls closing at 11 p.m. ET.

There are greater than 890,000 registered Republicans in Utah, in comparison with fewer than 230,000 registered Democrats.

— Dan Mangan

“Anything’s better than Trump or Haley,” Denver voter Melissa Magalif informed NBC News, earlier than admitting she’s “not Biden’s biggest fan by any means.”

“I have been personally impacted by the policies that Trump made when he was president: immigration policies, Muslim ban, his Covid-era policies, and having been personally impacted by those things in a negative way, I just have to go with my gut on this one,” Magalif informed reporter Jillian Frankel about submitting her mail-in poll for Biden.

But, she added, the Biden administration could have so much to reply for regarding its strategy to the Israel-Hamas War. Magalif stated she is a member of the Jewish-Israeli group and identifies as LGBT.

“That is kind of what scares me with this election is that because of how they’ve handled this situation, specifically, and how it’s so fresh in everybody’s minds, why it could end up going back to Trump,” she stated. “So I think if they do win, they’re gonna have [to rebuild] the trust of the American people.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday called for an immediate six-week cease-fire between Israel and Hamas as part of a deal to release hostages.

— Chelsey Cox

Robert Kennedy Jr. is not on presidential primary ballots Tuesday due to his status as an independent candidate, but he still touted himself as an alternative to President Joe Biden and Donald Trump as voters went to the polls.

Kennedy retweeted an image summarizing a recent Fox News poll leading Biden and Trump by several percentage points among independent voters nationally.

“It’s clear Americans need to break away from the two-party system. Let’s unite round our shared values and get right down to enterprise,” Kennedy wrote in that X post. “Our elected officers spend extra time combating throughout the aisle than really bettering the lives of their constituents.”

Kennedy, who is a vaccine skeptic, later replied to an X post about Mandy Cohen, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announcing that an updated Covid-19 vaccine is expected to become available next fall.

“Because the primary 9 pictures did not shield you,” Kennedy wrote.

— Dan Mangan

Billionaire Mark Cuban called Donald Trump a “snake oil salesperson” as he praised President Joe Biden’s reelection bid.

“I do not need a snake oil salesperson as President,” Cuban told the news site Axios via email. “I’m voting for Biden/Harris over Trump all day every single day.”

Cuban told Axios that Trump’s voters “are proud of their snake oil whether or not it really works or not.”

He said he would support Biden even if the incumbent president were on his deathbed.

“If they had been having his final wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given final rites, I’d nonetheless vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban said.

Cuban, who is now a minority owner in the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, was at the White House on Monday for a meeting about prescription drug costs. His two-year-old company Cost Plus Drug sells generic prescription drugs online.

— Dan Mangan

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has been quietly trying to recruit some of Nikki Haley’s wealthiest supporters to come over to their side, according to a person who recently heard from Trump’s campaign.

One of the asks to a top Haley financier occurred as recently as Monday, the eve of Super Tuesday, the person said. Some of the Trump camp’s charm offensive has been directed at her Wall Street donors, the person added.

Trump has beaten Haley in all but one of the primary contests so far, and he is expected to dominate the field on Super Tuesday, when more than 800 delegates are up for grabs.

A spokesman for Trump did not respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

— Brian Schwartz

First Lady Jill Biden is taking a more active role on the campaign trail as her husband, President Joe Biden, seeks another term in office.

But Melania Trump, wife of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, appears to be keeping clear of the spotlight.

The former first lady has been almost completely absent from Trump’s latest presidential campaign, leaving him on his own as he gears up for a rematch with Biden. She has also declined to accompany her husband to his many court appearances as he fights 91 criminal charges and multiple high-profile civil penalties.

Trump said last fall that his wife will join him “fairly quickly.” But that hasn’t happened in the runup to Super Tuesday.

Jill Biden, meanwhile, looks to be taking a more prominent role in the Democratic incumbent’s reelection bid.

In a speech in Atlanta on Friday, she lashed out at Trump over his treatment of women and stance on key women’s issues, including abortion rights.

“How far will he go? When will he cease? You know the reply: He will not,” she said of Trump. The appearance was the first lady’s first stop on a three-day, four-state swing of key electoral battlegrounds.

A spokesperson for Melania Trump did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

— Kevin Breuninger

With North Carolina’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein pursuing a gubernatorial bid, two lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking to occupy his current office.

Rep. Dan Bishop, a Republican hardliner, is the sole Republican candidate in the state’s attorney general race. He leaves behind a seat in a deep-red district that has sparked a GOP race to succeed him, featuring pastor Mark Harris who led a failed congressional run in 2018.

Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Jeff Jackson is competing on the Democratic side, in part due to the state’s redrawn congressional map, which effectively turned his purple district red. Attorney Tim Dunn and Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry are also in the Democratic running.

If none of the candidates in the North Carolina primaries secure a 30% majority or higher, the top two will head to a runoff on May 14.

— Rebecca Picciotto

This Super Tuesday, the top presidential candidates are working from home.

Donald Trump played golf Tuesday morning at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, a few minutes’ drive from his Mar-a-Lago resort home, a source told NBC News.

Trump’s campaign said the former president will deliver a speech at Mar-a-Lago in the evening.

President Joe Biden, meanwhile, returned to the White House on Tuesday morning after spending the weekend at Camp David.

He is slated to convene a White House council meeting in the afternoon to announce new actions to fight “company rip-offs.”

Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley told CNN on Friday that she will be in her home state of South Carolina on Tuesday night, even though the state already held its primary election, which she lost to Trump.

— Kevin Breuninger

A group of political action committees financed by the cryptocurrency industry spent just more than $13 million on congressional primary contests taking place on Super Tuesday, according to data from AdImpact.

The data shows that Fairshake, one of three crypto-backed PACs, has spent $9.5 million on television, radio and digital advertisements against Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., who is running for California’s open Senate seat in a massive primary fight against Democratic front-runner Rep. Adam Schiff.

Protect Progress, another crypto-supported committee, spent $1.7 million in support of Shomari Figures, a Democrat running in a primary campaign for Alabama’s 2nd congressional district.

Defend American Jobs spent more than $1 million backing two Republicans running for House seats in North Carolina.

— Brian Schwartz

Pop superstar Taylor Swift used her hugely popular Instagram account to urge followers to vote in the presidential primaries in her home state of Tennessee and elsewhere.

“I wished to remind you guys to vote the individuals who most characterize YOU into energy,” Swift wrote in an Instagram Story post. “If you have not already, make a plan to vote immediately.”

Swift then directed her 282 million followers to the link Vote.org to find information about their polling locations.

The singer backed President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Supporters of former President Donald Trump started criticizing Swift months ago, in the expectation that she would endorse Biden again.

Before the Super Bowl game in February, Swift was briefly the subject of a bizarre right-wing conspiracy that imagined that her romance with Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce was a stunt designed to help Biden’s reelection bid.

— Dan Mangan

Below is an alphabetical list of the states where Americans are casting ballots today.

The following states are holding both Democratic and Republican primaries:

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Vermont
• Virginia

In Utah, Democrats are holding a primary while Republicans are holding a caucus.

In Alaska, Republicans will caucus while Democrats are holding their primary on April 6.

Though Republicans already settled Iowa in the first primary of the season, Democratic ballots have been rolling in since January and are due to be released Tuesday.

— Rebecca Picciotto

The Colorado primary could offer Nikki Haley a rare opportunity to add to her delegate count. Former president Donald Trump is currently leading with 276 Republican delegates to Haley’s 43.

The state’s 37 delegates are awarded proportionally to candidates who win at least 20% of the vote. According to NBC News, Haley’s worst case scenario would still likely be a pickup of 10 delegates.

Haley typically performs better than Trump among Independents and center-right Republicans, according to Republican strategist Susan Del Percio. A third of the total votes cast so far in the Colorado presidential primary came from voters who were unaffiliated with either party, Axios reports.

Haley also draws outsize support from affluent, college-educated Republicans. Nearly half of Colorado’s population age 25 and older, 43.7%, have a Bachelor’s degree or higher, per the U.S. Census.

— Chelsey Cox

The biggest primary race to watch in the nation’s most populous state isn’t the one for president.

A crush of candidates are vying for the powerful Senate seat formerly held for two decades by Dianne Feinstein, who died in September. Sen. Laphonza Butler, whom Gov. Gavin Newsom picked to temporarily fill the vacancy, has opted not to run to keep the seat.

The Senate primary in California, which consistently votes blue in statewide contests, has largely looked like a three-way race between Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.

Schiff, who gained national prominence for his leading role in the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump, has led the pack in ad spending and polling.

But Steve Garvey, a Republican former pro baseball player, has seen a late surge in the polls, even though his campaign has placed no TV ads.

That’s likely because the majority of Schiff’s broadcasts mention Garvey, while none mention Porter.

It’s a strategy that could pay off massively. California has an open primary, meaning voters can select any party’s candidate, and only the top two candidates will proceed to the general election.

If Schiff winds up competing against Garvey in the general, rather than Porter or Lee, he may have a better shot at winning in California, which hasn’t had a Republican senator since 1992.

— Kevin Breuninger

North Carolina’s primaries feature several competitive down-ballot races, including a closely watched gubernatorial primary to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, which could act as a bellwether of the battleground state’s leaning in November.

Gov. Cooper endorsed the state’s Attorney General Josh Stein to be his successor. But before Stein officially secures the incumbent party’s nomination, he will have to clear a crowded Democratic field. Stein is up against four opponents including former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Morgan.

If he is the Democratic nominee, Stein could face a November matchup against Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is leading the GOP pool so far and has Donald Trump’s endorsement.

Joe Biden is looking to flip North Carolina after Donald Trump narrowly won the state by just over one percent in the 2020 general election. If Republicans are able to turn Gov. Cooper’s seat red, it could signal how the swing state’s electorate is thinking about their options at the top of the ticket.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Super Tuesday primary voting began bright and as early as 6 a.m. ET in Vermont, with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump looking to cement their leads over their respective remaining intraparty opponents.

In the Republican primary, 17 delegates are up for grabs, while in the Democratic contest, there are 16 delegates at stake. Polls will close at 7 p.m. ET.

Vermont has an open primary system. Voters can choose in which party primary to vote, regardless of their personal political affiliation.

Vermont, which is the second-smallest state by population, will award just three votes in the Electoral College after the presidential election in November.

— Dan Mangan

The battle for California’s coveted open Senate seat is still a long way from the general election, but the contest is already the state’s most expensive Senate race of all time, by far.

Spending on the Golden State Senate race has topped $65.3 million, AdImpact reported on Feb. 29.

That’s 242% more spending than the last three California Senate races combined, according to AdImpact.

The difference underscores just how competitive the race for late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat has been compared to other elections in the reliably blue state.

— Kevin Breuninger