Where do the candidates stand after Super Tuesday, one of the biggest days on the campaign trail as the race for the White House heats up?
With more than a dozen states voting across caucuses and primaries, hundreds of delegates were up for grabs on Tuesday, but what does it mean for the candidates involved?
Marco Rubio finally gets a win
The Florida senator got one win on the board, finally, in Minnesota. His discourse up to this point has been about momentum, how he has been gaining on the rest of the field and how that will translate into wins, but until the late stages of Tuesday night, it didn't look like he would get any states.
He also came close in Vermont, where he claimed that he would have won were it not for the crowded field, something that the stats backed up, given it was close between him and Trump.
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With a huge number of endorsements from GOP members, Rubio will hope that he can keep picking up delegates by claiming victory in the winner-take-all states that are on the horizon on March 15th. That could lead to a contested convention in July, as the party tries to rally behind an alternative to Trump.
Ted Cruz think he's the anti-Trump
The Texas Senator believes that he should be that alternative however, and called for the party members and other candidates to align behind him to take down the Donald.
The problem with that scenario is, as one man at his victory speech in Texas told ABC News, "that dog won't hunt". Cruz is not well liked within the Republican Party, but with a big win in Texas (a winner-take-most state) another in Oklahoma and the early counts suggesting Alaska could be headed his way too, his delegate count makes him Trump's closest contender, whether the GOP likes it or not.
Trump claims victory, but faces a few bumps in the road
Expected to do well on Super Tuesday, Trump swept to victory in seven states, claiming a huge number of delegates along the way.
His speech was very different to the usual bluster and that he normally doles out at his rally, given that the room in Palm Beach, Florida was mostly filled with members of the media. There, he congratulated Ted Cruz for all his hard work and his wins on the night, leading some to speculate that there may be a move on his part to get the Texas senator closer to his camp, or recognising him as the standout challenger.
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Given where he made his speech from, his sights are now firmly on claiming a win in Florida and knocking Rubio out of the race entirely in his home state on March 15th. However, he now faces criticism over a secret recording of an off the record discussion about his immigration policy with the New York Times which suggests his path ahead may not be all smooth sailing.
Is Bernie Sanders still in?
A bad night for the Vermont senator as he ended up losing in Massachusetts, a state where he was expected to perform strongly. It's close to his home state, and the voter breakdown was leaning towards a win for him.
That was a damaging loss for him despite the fact that he claimed four other states on the night, and parts of his victory speech did sound more like a man stating that he had gotten his issues on the table, rather than someone who was in for the long haul.
.@SenSanders: "This campaign... is about making a political revolution." #SuperTuesdayhttps://t.co/pC67KBZzsG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) 2 March 2016
However, with a huge fundraising effort pulling in $42 million just last month, he now has a large budget to spend as he continues his campaign over the next few weeks.
Hillary Clinton widens her appeal
Her strength among African-American voters and Latino voters was a pillar of her campaign to date, and was borne out by the results that she got in the primaries on Tuesday.
According to ABC News, the states that voted showed she has overwhelming support in both those fields, beating at 83% and 63% respectively. She also has a strong lead among female voters, but the really good news for her was that win in Massachussets.
Up to this point, in states which have been had a strong turnout from liberal, white voters (Iowa New Hampshire, Vermont) Sanders has done well, but on Tuesday Clinton took the lead there too, with just over 50% backing her.
Chris Christie wins the internet
He is the internet's new favourite meme as his strange facial expressions during Donald Trump's victory speech made him the hottest trend on the internet, as people worried if they needed to #FreeChrisChristie.
Delegate math
One of the night's big winners was mathematics. A much maligned subject in school, people around the world had to get their pencils out to start totting up numbers and predictions again on the back of an envelope.
A complicated process at the best of times, one of the quirks of the primary system is that some states are awarded proportionally, but only if you reach a certain threshold.
Projections vary at this point, but with Rubio failing to hit that 20% mark in some of the states, he ended up posting a bagel in a few locations. That's ground he can ill afford to lose, and while he might end up with anywhere between 80-odd and 110 delegates, he's still trailing well behind Cruz and Trump.
Cruz, despite only claiming two states (and possibly Alaska too, with 95% of districts reported at time of writing) has closed the gap on Trump with some wins in the right places. Similarly, Sanders pointed out that in a two person race with some close finishes, he's still collecting "hundreds of delegates" along the way and is hanging in despite Clinton's lead.
With more voting ahead this weekend, don't put that calculator away just yet.
