Super Tuesday live results: Who won what?

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump will win their respective races in Maine, AP projects.

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

“But really we’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate on behalf of my party,” Mr Buck said on NewsNation earlier this week. “And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say.”

The Colorado representative also cited personal reasons for stepping down.

“I’m at a point in my life where I want to do different things,” he said. “I want to enjoy my family more, I want to do less business travel and more recreational travel. There are a lot of things that went into the decision.”

Mr Buck has made similar comments before, expressing his concern with some politicians’ “departure from reality.”

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.