Super Tuesday 2024 key races: Live results and updates

Each Joe Biden and Donald Trump will win their respective races in Maine, AP tasks.

Joe Biden will win the Democratic main in Massachusetts, AP tasks.

“However actually we’re at a time in American politics, that I’m not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate on behalf of my social gathering,” Mr Buck mentioned on NewsNation earlier this week. “And I’m very unhappy that others in my social gathering have taken the place that so long as we get the White Home, it doesn’t actually matter what we are saying.”

The Colorado consultant additionally cited private causes for stepping down.

“I’m at some extent in my life the place I wish to do various things,” he mentioned. “I wish to take pleasure in my household extra, I wish to do much less enterprise journey and extra leisure journey. There are numerous issues that went into the choice.”

Mr Buck has made comparable feedback earlier than, expressing his concern with some politicians’ “departure from actuality.”

Donald Trump and Joe Biden each win their respective races in Oklahoma, AP tasks.

Few Republican senators enrage Democrats – and to be sincere, some Republicans – as a lot as Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. In 2018, former congressman Beto O’Rourke acquired inside single digits of the person Trump as soon as referred to as “Lyin’ Ted.” Since then, Texas has develop into purpler, particularly the suburbs of Houston, the place Cruz lives, turning into extra Democratic, and Democrats flipping two Home seats the identical yr because the 2018 Senate race.

Cruz has additionally made himself a lightning rod on the nationwide stage, given his main the cost to object to the 2020 presidential election outcomes and his hightailing it to Mexico throughout a storm in 2021. Given Florida’s continued drift rightward, Democrats see Texas as their primary longshot try and hold the Senate and flip a seat when they’re in any other case taking part in defence.

Texas Democrats primarily have two selections in who they will choose to run towards Cruz. On one finish, a lot of the Democratic institution endorsed Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker who flipped a seat within the suburbs of Dallas in 2018. Allred’s try and kind a blockade on January 6 to guard his colleagues from rioters presents a potent distinction to Cruz’s makes an attempt to subvert the election outcomes.

Going with a Democrat who represents the suburbs additionally reveals that Democrats see that as their future to successful the Lone Star State. Conversely, state senator Roland Gutierrez got here to nationwide prominence after the capturing in Uvalde, which is in his closely Hispanic residence district. In 2020, Democrats’ hopes of flipping Texas crumbled amid a complete collapse within the Hispanic areas together with within the Rio Grande Valley. Gutierrez’s victory would sign Democrats wish to go all-in with Hispanics.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden will win their respective main races in Tennessee, AP tasks.

Mark Robinson will win the North Carolina Republican main for governor, AP tasks.

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

Donald Trump will win the North Carolina Republican main, AP tasks.

Tom Nichols of The Atlantic famous on X late on Monday that “I’m not amazed by Trump voters (anymore), however I’m amazed how different People make excuses for them: It’s the media, it’s that they’re busy, they work an excessive amount of so that they don’t know, they don’t get the total story… They help Trump as a result of they like him – for a lot of causes”.

“Cease blaming the media and the financial system and fuel costs and Russian spies and no matter. It is a democracy. The voters are accountable,” he added.