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Which states vote on Super Tuesday 2024? Full list of who votes tomorrow and how many delegates are at stake
Republicans will hold nominating contests in 15 states and Democrats in 15 states and one territory on Super Tuesday, the day when the presidential races typically take shape.
President Biden remains the front-runner for the Democrats and doesn’t face any serious challengers. Among the states voting on Tuesday is Minnesota, the home state of Rep. Dean Phillips, who has launched a longshot bid against Mr. Biden and could face defeat in his home state. Although author Marianne Williamson had ended her long-shot campaign, she unsuspended it after she finished ahead of Phillips in the Michigan primary.
Former President Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination, but former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is still in the race. Haley has yet to win any states, although she has picked up some delegates along the way.
There are hundreds of delegates at stake for both Democrats and Republicans on Super Tuesday, but neither Mr. Biden nor Trump will be able to win enough delegates to secure the nomination on March 5. CBS News estimates that the earliest Mr. Trump can clinch the nomination is March 12 and the earliest Mr. Biden can is March 19.
Which states vote on Super Tuesday 2024?
Republicans are holding primaries in the following states:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
Republicans are holding caucuses in the following states:
Democrats are holding primaries in the following states:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
Democrats are holding caucuses in the following the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
Iowa’s Democratic caucuses was entirely by mail beginning in January and will be releasing its results on March 5, to comply with the Democratic National Committee’s calendar.
Are Super Tuesday states the same every election cycle?
In the case of primary elections, the final decisions on the dates are determined by the state legislatures — including those on Super Tuesday. Each state submits a proposal for a date to the Democratic and Republican national parties, and the parties approve the dates. If the states are unhappy with the date assigned by the parties, they may decide to hold hold their primary elections on the date of their choice, but they run the risk of sanctions from the parties. Caucuses are organized by state parties, so state legislatures do not play a role in those contests.
According to Barbara Norrander, emeritus professor in the school of government and public policy at the University of Arizona and the author of the 1994 book “Super Tuesday,” Super Tuesday started in 1988 when southern states wanted to coordinate to nominate a more moderate candidate.
Since then, other states have joined the Super Tuesday bandwagon. By moving up their primaries and participating in Super Tuesday, a state can have more influence in the presidential election.
How many delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday?
There are 865 Republican delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday. The Republican candidate needs 1,215 delegates out of 2,429 to win the nomination.
Here are CBS News’ GOP delegate estimates going into Super Tuesday.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has since dropped out, has nine delegates and Vivek Ramaswamy, who has also dropped out, has three delegates.
Democrats are vying for 1,420 delegates. The Democratic candidate needs 1,968 delegates needed to win, out of 3,934 total delegates.
Full list of Super Tuesday states and delegate counts for 2024
Here are the Republican delegates at stake by state:
- Alabama: 50
- Arkansas: 40
- Alaska: 29
- California: 169
- Colorado: 37
- Maine: 20
- Massachusetts: 40
- Minnesota: 39
- North Carolina: 74
- Oklahoma: 43
- Tennessee: 58
- Texas: 161
- Utah: 40
- Vermont: 17
- Virginia: 48
Here are the Democratic delegates at stake by state:
- Alabama: 52
- American Samoa: 6
- Arkansas: 31
- California: 424
- Colorado: 72
- Iowa: 40
- Maine: 24
- Massachusetts: 92
- Minnesota: 75
- North Carolina: 116
- Oklahoma: 36
- Tennessee: 63
- Texas: 244
- Utah: 30
- Vermont: 16
- Virginia: 99
Hunter Woodall, Grace Kazarian, Annie Bryson, Jake Rosen, Olivia Rinaldi, Shawna Mizelle and Katrina Kaufman contributed to this report.
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Head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces killed in Moscow blast triggered by device hidden in scooter, officials say
Moscow — The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Forces, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, was killed along with his deputy early Tuesday in an explosion in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
An explosive device hidden in an electronic scooter went off outside a residential building as the two men left the structure, Agence France-Presse cites investigators as saying.
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“Investigators, forensic experts and operational services are working at the scene,” committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement. “Investigative and search activities are being carried out to establish all the circumstances around this crime.”
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The committee carries out responsible major investigations in Russia.
Kirillov was sentenced in absentia by a Ukrainian court on Dec. 16 for the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine that started in Feb. 2022.
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Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, said it had recorded more than 4,800 uses of chemical weapons on the battlefield since February 2022, particularly K-1 combat grenades.
During the almost 3-year operation, Russia has made small but steady territorial gains to the nearly one-fifth of Ukraine it already controls.
Kirillov had been in his post since 2017, AFP notes.
A powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu Tuesday, smashing buildings in the capital, Port Vila, including one housing the embassies of the U.S. and other nations. A witness told Agence France-Presse of bodies seen in the city.
Dan McGarry, a journalist with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project based in Vanuatu, told the Reuters news agency in an interview that police said at least one person had been killed and injured people had been taken to hospital.
“It was the most violent earthquake I’ve experienced in my 21 years living in Vanuatu and in the Pacific Islands. I’ve seen a lot of large earthquakes, never one like this,” he said.
The 7.3-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 35 miles, off the coast of Efate, Vanuatu’s main island, at 12:47 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The ground floor of a building housing the U.S, French and other embassies had been crushed under higher floors, resident Michael Thompson told AFP by satellite phone after posting images of the destruction on social media.
“That no longer exists. It is just completely flat. The top three floors are still holding but they have dropped,” Thompson said.
“If there was anyone in there at the time, then they’re gone.”
Thompson said the ground floor housed the U.S. embassy, but that couldn’t be immediately confirmed.
A photo showed significant damage to the building:
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The United States has closed the embassy until further notice, citing “considerable damage” to the mission, the U.S. embassy in Papua New Guinea said in a message on social media. “Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this earthquake,” the embassy said.
The New Zealand High Commission, housed in the same building, suffered “significant damage,” a statement from Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ office said, adding that, “New Zealand is deeply concerned about the significant earthquake in Vanuatu, and the damage it has caused.”
Thompson, who runs a zipline adventure business in Vanuatu, said, “There’s people in the buildings in town. There were bodies there when we walked past.”
A landslide on one road had covered a bus, he said, “so there’s obviously some deaths there.”
The quake also collapsed at least two bridges, and most mobile networks were cut off, Thompson said.
“They’re just cracking on with a rescue operation. The support we need from overseas is medical evacuation and skilled rescue, (the) kind(s) of people that can operate in earthquakes,” he said.
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Video footage posted by Thompson and verified by AFP showed uniformed rescuers and emergency vehicles working on a building where an external roof had collapsed onto a number of parked cars and trucks.
The streets of the city were strewn with broken glass and other debris from damaged buildings, the footage showed.
Nibhay Nand, a Sydney-based pharmacist with businesses across the South Pacific, said he had spoken to staff in Port Vila who said most of the store there had been “destroyed” and that other buildings nearby had “collapsed.”
“We are waiting for everyone to get online to know how devastating and traumatic this will be,” Nand told AFP.
A tsunami warning was issued after the quake, with waves of up to three feet forecast for some areas of Vanuatu, but it was soon lifted by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Earthquakes are common in Vanuatu, a low-lying archipelago of 320,000 people that straddles the seismic Ring of Fire, an arc of intense tectonic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific Basin.
Vanuatu is ranked as one of the countries most susceptible to natural disasters such as earthquakes, storm damage, flooding and tsunamis, according to the annual World Risk Report.
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