Super Tuesday 2024 key election races: Live results and updates

Donald Trump and Joe Biden both win their respective races in Oklahoma, AP projects.

Few Republican senators enrage Democrats – and to be honest, some Republicans – as much as Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. In 2018, former congressman Beto O’Rourke got within single digits of the man Trump once called “Lyin’ Ted.” Since then, Texas has become purpler, specifically the suburbs of Houston, where Cruz lives, becoming more Democratic, and Democrats flipping two House seats the same year as the 2018 Senate race.

Cruz has also made himself a lightning rod on the national stage, given his leading the charge to object to the 2020 presidential election results and his hightailing it to Mexico during a storm in 2021. Given Florida’s continued drift rightward, Democrats see Texas as their main longshot attempt to keep the Senate and flip a seat when they are otherwise playing defence.

Texas Democrats mainly have two choices in who they can pick to run against Cruz. On one end, much of the Democratic establishment endorsed Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker who flipped a seat in the suburbs of Dallas in 2018. Allred’s attempt to form a blockade on January 6 to protect his colleagues from rioters offers a potent contrast to Cruz’s attempts to subvert the election results.

Going with a Democrat who represents the suburbs also shows that Democrats see that as their future to winning the Lone Star State. Conversely, state senator Roland Gutierrez came to national prominence after the shooting in Uvalde, which is in his heavily Hispanic home district. In 2020, Democrats’ hopes of flipping Texas crumbled amid a total collapse in the Hispanic areas including in the Rio Grande Valley. Gutierrez’s victory would signal Democrats want to go all-in with Hispanics.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden will win their respective primary races in Tennessee, AP projects.

Mark Robinson will win the North Carolina Republican primary for governor, AP projects.

He’s set to go up against Democrat Josh Stein.

Donald Trump will win the North Carolina Republican primary, AP projects.

Tom Nichols of The Atlantic noted on X late on Monday that “I am not amazed by Trump voters (anymore), but I am amazed how other Americans make excuses for them: It’s the media, it’s that they’re busy, they work too much so they don’t know, they don’t get the full story… They support Trump because they like him – for many reasons”.

“Stop blaming the media and the economy and gas prices and Russian spies and whatever. This is a democracy. The voters are responsible,” he added.

In the wake of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s death, the race to replace her seat has come down to three Democratic Representatives and two Republicans, one of them a former baseball star — with voters deciding which pair of candidates will proceed to the November ballot on Tuesday.

Katie Hawkinson breaks down what is happening in the Golden State:

The Biden campaign has said that February was the fourth month in a row that the campaign beat its own fundraising record.

Deputy Campaign Manager Rob Flaherty said in a statement that “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.

“While Trump spends his limited funds on various other… issues, President Biden’s campaign is using this grassroots momentum to build a cutting-edge and winning campaign for this November,” he added.

Joe Biden will win the Democratic primary in North Carolina, AP projects.