Virginia. Over to the boards, with e will show you how we r are characterizing those races. Starting on the republican side, the state of georgia, nbc news projects that donald trump wins the state of georgia. In virginia, on the republican side, this race is too close the call base d d on the early exit polls trump and rubio are vying for first place. In vermont, on the republican race, race too early to call for the gop in vermont. On the democratic side, in the state of georgia, nbc news projects that Hillary Clinton is going to win handily in georgia. In va irginia, nbc news is projecting that Hillary Clinton will win are the as well. And in vermont, projecting that Bernie Sanders is going to win in his home state tonight, winning vermont. Our team is in place, and we will start with the trump camp and katy tur in palm beach. News so far, katy . Reporter another dramatic entrance for what is shaping up to be a dramatic soup uper tuesday. Trump is riding high and Chris Christie is by his side and brushing off the insults. He said that i had small hand, and he said that they are well they are not small are they. I have always had people say, donald, you have the most beautiful hands. Reporter the up conventional campaign and the outsider is poised for a blueout and call for marco rubio to quit on fox news. Well, he has to get out, and he has not won anything, and ted won anything. Reporter and there is talk that he might refuse to take place in the future gop debates. The next on thursday in detroit by fox news and megan kel yn kelly who trump ha has repeatedly trashed for reciting his own words back to him in the first debate. The of thursday yet, but there is a lot of speculation who will be on the stage. Trump today saying that he wont skip it. No, i wont e skip it, but the debate s s are ridiculous. Donald trump has played by his own rules since he started last summer, and should he choose not the do it now, we should not be surprised. Reporter the bombastic tour aimed to fire on the national e e lek shup and Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton cannot make america great. She subtalking about making america whole. No, not whole, but i want great again. Not whole. Reporter meanwhile the grand old party is worried about the grand old legacy after trump failed to immediately condemn the kkk over to the weekend. If the person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no game, and they must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. Reporter ryan said that he nominates, but gop sources tell nbc news will there is real concern about how the candidate and the staff will cooperate with the party, and whether he will quit calling people losers and start acting more president ial. To put it in perspective, this is campaign that started out with little organization, and no backing from the republican establishment, and a campaign that many called a joke despite all of that, and despite all of the drama, donald trump is still expected to run away with the majority of the delegates across 11 states tonight, lester. Er all right. Katy, thank you. If trump dominates as many expects the storyline could be the republican race for second place. Both marco rubio and ted cruz are competing to be the face of the antitrump effort within their party. As Hallie Jackson reports, both candidates believe they have a viable pathway to the nomination. Reporter ted cruz cant afford a misstep here, and voting in his hometown of houston. I feel good. We have tremendous support in texas. Reporter it is the biggest super tuesday prize 155 delegates in texas. He needs and looks for a win. And also in arkansas spending the most money there in the last 24 hours. His campaign is privately acknowledge ing to acknowledging to nbc they are all but conceding vermont and massachusetts and va why should i cast my voteer for you instead of donald trump . Reporter and arguments that trump has a ceiling of 60 of the republicans are opposed to him. And is it logic that 75 of the republicans are not backing you . We will definitely lose the general election if donald trump wins. Reporter cruz wants a twoman race, but he wont get it with marco rubio in the mix. I will campaign in all 50 states. Reporter he is again shifting his Campaign Strategy against trump now and not below the belt. Men with small hands. Reporter but above the fray. Donald trump has small hand s s. We are not going to be talk about this today, and i want this to be a serious election. Reporter and his aides say g saying that they want him to focus on more serious warnings, and calling trump dangerous. The senator has not won anywhere, and probably wont tonight unless he pulls off a shocking upset in virginia and minnesota. He needs to get more than his fair share of second places. Reporter and even if rubio drop s drops to below, he has to win in his home state of florida. And john kasich also needs to win in ohio, and he looking past super tuesday, but ben carson is not. On political life support a top the aide is acknowledging how important the priorities are to his future, but the bigger storyline is cruz and rubio and the showdown for second as they hope to prove that one of them thank you, Hallie Jackson. And lets turn to the democratic race, and the night is turning out good for Hillary Clinton, and she is expecking to have a good night, and she is hoping that her campaign is going to spell the beginning of the end tonight for Bernie Sanders. And clinton is looking ahead to the general election, and sharpening her attacks against donald trump. Reporter trying to run up the score, frontrunner Hillary Clinton in minnesota, a Bernie Sanders stronghold, while bill clinton in boston is challenging sanders in the new england sen senators backyard. They are tag teaming sanders trying to put the nomination beyond his reach. Meanwhile, sander s is s is voting this morning in his home state of vath vth where he is expected to coast to vick tory. I know that the Bernie Sanders here in vermont got one vote, and i was working on my wife so i probably got two. Regard les less of the results, sanders is vowing to fight the last month alone mostly from the small and online contributions. Thousands turning out yesterday for his rally in massachusetts where the race is tightening. Your state led the American Revolution [ applause ] massachusetts to lead the political can revolution. Reporter but clinton was overwhelming support from the africanamerican voters is counting on a southern firewall tonight. She has a commanding lead in texas, tennessee and georgia. According to the nbc wall street maris poll, already confident enough about the nomination to start to focusing as well on donald trump. I am just speaking out against bigotry and bullying wherever i hear it. Sflr and the Campaign Officials are saying that the strategy against trump is hitting him early and often and portraying him as dangerous and bigoted because of his comments on race energizing the minority voters to turn out for her. And clinton is testing new attack lines against trump. You know, america never stopped being great, but we have to make america whole. Reporter and trump is talking about making it a huge fight. We will be talk about those email s emails every moment of everyday. Reporter and the clintons know that donald trump does not play by the rules, but they are also known for their tough campaigning, so if clipton and trump become their partys nominees, you aint seen nothing yet. Lester . N thank you, andrea. We are joined by Savannah Guthrie and chuck todd, and great to have you both with us. And chuck, with the exit polling, you have seen the data and what is standing out . El well, i am watching virginia very closely, because this is make or break for marco rubio, and why is he doing so well here and it is a split to explain the trump phenomenon overall, and the division of educated and collegeeducated voters. A little over half are College Graduates in the republican electorate, but look at virginia. Virginia has 60 of the republican e e lectorate College Educated or better, and why does this matter to marco rubio, and let me show you the split inside of among in virginia among College Graduates rubio lead s s by ten points. And among nonCollege Graduates donald trump leads by close to almost 20 points. Now a majority of the electorate is collegeeducated in virginia well. Better with the College Educated electorate, but it is the working class part of the electorate in the Republican Party that has helped trump so much, and he may lose virginia because of the split, but it also explains why he s is doing so well in the rest of the super tuesday races. One of the races we are watching close ly ly. Cruz and mar eco co rubio. Wow. It s is even early. See where where i am later tonight. And marco rubios advisers are making it clear no matter what happens tonight, this is trumps night big time and he is in it all of the way to the convention, and he says, if i have to get in my truck and drive to all 50 states, i will do it. They believe they have the mo money, and they can do it, but the problem is ted cruz who also believes he need s to s to be in the twoman race which is the dynamic that has led to trump to get a foothold in the republican primary race, because neither cruz nor rubio nor car son son want to et get out, and trump is going to continue the rise, and continuing to go on, and calls from trump and cruz for rubio to get out, and he says no. And we remember how big that and now, we will have live updates as the results come in, and i will be joined by savannah and chuck with primetime starting at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, and 9 00 p. M. Central with all of the breaking candidates news. And other news, e lets talk about the argument between apple and the fbi that reached capitol hill today. Apple is refusing to unlock an iphone belonged to one of the San Bernardino attackers. If you will please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. Reporter the fbi director diciary committee that apple write special software to help the fbi unlock an iphone used by one of we are asking apple to take the vicious guard dog away so we can pick the lock. Reporter they concluded that the only apple held the key. When is the tux of government to compel or force a private an agent of the government to do what the government couldnt do . Reporter apples top lawyer warned that if the fbi gets what it wants, the software to disable the security could get into the wrong hands. We believe that the protecting the security and the prive privacy of hundreds of millions of iphone users is the right thing to do. That is the reason that we are doing this this. Reporter but some Committee Member members are worried about the phones keeping evidence out of the reach of law enforcement. You can go into the peoples bodies and remove a body, but you cant go into dead persons iphone and remove da ta. I find it baffling. 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Well, this is the most poll closing times for Bernie Sanders, massachusetts and oklahoma, and two of the five state s that states that he was targeting tonight. These are the primaries that he wants to win other than vermont, and can he win those two state, oklahoma the most Southern State that he targeted, and then tennessee and alabama, and i if Hillary Clinton does well here. But on the republican side, can does trump continue the southern romp here . This is southern super tuesday, and georgia was a big deal, and it will be interest tog alabama and georgia mirror, and if it is, that is the start of a big night for donald trump. And virginia is still too yes. Battling it with rubio . Yes, and this is one that we have to wait for a lot of the votes to be count ed to ed to see who wins that primary. All right. Chuck, we will have to see shortly. That concludes the first half hour of news on this super tuesday. For many of the stations, they will continue for an additional half hour of coverage, and rereminder that we are back on at 10 00 p. M. Across the country with the breaking results on this big night of the president ial contest. Im lester holt for nbc nightly news, and thank you for watch g on this big night four more states, and the polls have closed and we will show you where things stand right now. We will start on the republican side in alabama. Nbc nightly news projecting that donald trump wins in the alabama primary. And in massachusetts, nbc predicting that the trump is go going to win there as well. In tennessee, again, it is oklahoma, the gop primary there is too early to call. One that we will be watching is virginia and proposed an hour earlier, and a tight race between trump and marco rubio battling it out for first. On the democratic side on the new closings, alabama, Hillary Clinton the projected winner. Tennessee, again, Hillary Clinton. Nbc projecting she will win there. And in massachusetts, the race is too early to call, and sanders is leading right now in the massachusetts democratic primary. Oklahoma, too early to call, and sander s sanders is going to lead in the oklahoma can democratic primary, and observations, chuck todd . Well, big night for donald trump, trump, and he is rolling, and in massachusetts and in the south, that is huge for him. Thank you, chuck todd, and we will have further updates as the results warrant. For now, lester holt in the nbc headquarters. Decision 2016, super tuesday. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. We are back with the coverage of super tuesday, and you have seen the results so far, and we want to go to katy tur with the Trump Campaign in palm beach, and katy, what is the latest there as trump is having a very, very good night to this point. Well, the trump has not had a moment to react to the alabama, massachusetts or tennessee wins, but he did tweet congratulations and thank you to georgia for that win. The campaign also saying that they were flying over that state when that win was announced. I can tell you that he has drawn massive crowds at all of the states particularly in massachusetts, and in alabama and in tennessee, and certain ly ly in georgia as well. That is where we have seen thousands and thousands of people to come out the support donald trump, and people who say they have been with him for months and months. And certainly new hampshire. Also interesting to find out that he is neck and neck with marco rubio in virginia with marco rubio doing well with the moderates, trump has done well with the moderates, but although, virginia is very close the to washington, d. C. , and certainly a lot of the establish establishment support up there. Some drama in the last few days. Donald trump refusing to immediately condemn the kkk and a lot of controer si surrounding that, and marco rubio has gone after donald trump very hard, and personal attacks and questioning his spray tan and small hands, and going after him with more substantial attack, and questioning the trump university, the business accumen and calling him a con man and that could be going for marco rubio in virginia and against donald trump, but poised to be a big night for the gop frontrunner. All right. Katy tur. And from the republican side, we will move over to the democratic side with Kristen Welker live with the Clinton Campaign in mrs. Clinton having a good night there. And kristen, what are you hearing there . Hello, lester. Secretary clinton is ex pekt pected to address her energized supporters relatively soon. Her aides say that she is pleased by the early results. So far the southern firewall seems to be holding. The question is will she will be able to the pick off one of the states where sanders is competitive like oklahoma or a colorado. That is the question. But her Campaign Says that the earliest it will be able to put the race out of reach mathematically is march 15th, and that is when florida votes. That is why she is holding the watch party right here. She is increasingly taking aim at donald trump criticizing him for be a divisive candidate, and strategists are signalling that if clinton were to faceoff against trump she would draw sharp distinctions and point out the offensive language and the ies like building a wall, and one democratic strategist said that she should not engage with personal attacks until and unless donald trump does, and also says that the democrats makes the democrats nervous, because while he energizes the democratic base, he could bring in a lot of new voters into the fold. Lester . Thank, you kristen. Chuck todd with us, and anything here that makes you say, wait a minute something is happening here . Well, the big wait a minute moment would be if marco rubio could get a win in the virginia caucus, and it is probably one of the most important swing states in a general election and that would be a big deal, but the trump dominance in the deep south south, and we have gotten georgia and alabama and tennessee all called, and so what that means is a massive doubledigit victory in all of the states, and what that means is not only how many states you win, but how many delegates you win. And so he going to have a huge delegate night, and maybe only getdelegates in some places, and the same for marco rubio, but the candidate sitting third in the deep south, and if it is rubio, he may be behind tomorrow. And tomorrow morning we know that trump is going to be the delegate leader, and who is going to be next for the chief challenger . That is the unknown for tonight, and looking at the dominance is what would have me nervous fi were rubio or cruz. And Hillary Clinton is doing well in the south, but it is too early to call in massachusetts and too early to call in oklahoma, and sanders is leading in the oklahoma primary, and one of the places that he focused. Yes, and isnt it ironic where he chose to spend money and compete, the races are close, close, and where he chose not to spend money, and compete, Hillary Clinton is dominating, and so night, Bernie Sanders only competed in the states worth 1 4 of the available delegates, and Hillary Clinton were targeting the states that were worth 2 3 of the delegates massachusetts and sanders better win them since he targeted them. If he loses them tonight, then i think that you will see an acceleration of clinton being able to sort of lock it up even before march 15th. All right. Thank you, chuck. It is so rare to see importance placed on the runner up as we do for the republican nomination, and both marco rubio and ted cruz, as we have been talking, they have been seeing themselves as viable alternatives to trump, but as this report explains, it is going to be tough. Reporter for marco rubio the slog to second place is steep. Anybody who volts for donald trump in this caucus is voting for Hillary Clinton. Reporter he is hoping for a surprise finnish minnesota, but possibly failing to win a single primary or caucus, and tonight, he is trying to crack 20 of the vote in states like georgia to pick up the delegates. And right now, the strategy but how long is not winning a Winning Strategy . Reporter after a weekend full of personal attacks. He should sue whoever did that to his face reporter and now the former senator is lowering the tone on the jokes on trump. Get him out of here he has been bullying people for a year, and every now and then a bully needs to have a taste of their own campaign, but that is not what the campaign is going to be about. Reporter the prorubio soup uper pac is spending millions in florida, the home of the key primary in a few weeks. If he does not win florida, his campaign is essentially done. Sflr tonight, ted cruz is bet betting on a crucial election in his own state of texas. John kasich is banking on winning ohio on march 15th, and calling the other candidates to urge civility. They believe fundamentally that the kun tri country is no great, and at the last hour to be great again. Reporter with the billionaire frontrunner dominating in the national polls, the gop is split on any al tern alternative. Right now the rubio Campaign Says it is very encouraged by the virginia results, and so far, earlier today, both trump and cruz had called on rubio to drop out of the race if he under underperformed tonight, and earlier this afternoon, rubio fired back and said that is not go going to happen, and he is promising to win in his home state here in florida in less than two weeks, lester. And kasie hunt is with the san diego is aers campaign in vermont, and in the column for the senator there tonight. Casey, what is the latest from there . Well, lester, the vote ing in the delegaterich south is going how they expected heavily for Hillary Clinton, but they are carefully watching massachusetts hes fought very hard to win, and telling his supporter es tonight that he is going to fight on. At the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted. 35 states remain. Let me assure you that we are go going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace to every one of those states. Reporter and one thing that they will allow him to go on, lester, is the fundraising. He has raised almost 6 million in just 24 hour shgs , and all he had to do was to ask ask the online supporters to kick in a little bit of money, and they brought him over to 40 million mark for the month of february. And when you talk to sapders direct li ly about that, he will people who are telling me that this is a race worth fighting. No matter what happens, he is on the path to go to the National Convention with a package of delegates that may allow him to ask something of the Clinton Campaign even p he is not nominated, lester. Thank you, casey. We are joined by our Savannah Guthrie, and we keep talking about the unusual election and nothing like it, and lest we forget that there is a Supreme Court seat hanging in the balance here, and how is that play g playing out . Well, it is fascinating, because we knew the stakes were high because of a president ial election, but this president ial e lek election is going to be setting up the Supreme Court balance itself, and that is so rare, and that is already a once in a generation thing, and you have Justice Scalia who passed and now president obama to nominate the successor, but they are saying, wait, wait, not in an election year, and so all of these things will continue to animate the voters on both side of it, and that is where you and Savannah Guthrie, we will see you on the primetime special ahead. Sgloot and just ahead with the controversial remark s s, is this the meanest race ever . And could this bring us to choosing the eventual gop we are back op the super tuesday, and watching the results roll in. As the campaign has ak ccelerated, the voters have watched it descend further and further into the dirt, and disrespect and nasty putdowns are par for the course, and that has led a lot of people to the wonder that this is the meanest modern campaign that we have seen yet. Here is nbcs andrea mitchell. Reporter from the ethnic insults. They are bringing drug s s. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. Reporter to schoolyard talk. Biggest ears i have seen. And the guy with the worst spray tan in america is attacking me. Reporter and this year, they have gone from flat old nasty to rude. And little rubio is so well, his hands are the size s. And i have to get this off of my chest, donald trump is a jerk. Split is hard to think of any campaign in modern times with the language and the debate be so raw and angry and getting personal. Reporter undeniably it is donald trump the most controversial candidate in memory who is driving the tone. Jeb is a lowenergy person. She said that they are a [ bleep ] and losers. Reporter and so he took it to twitter and media ramps are sparking a new phrase. Donald is throwing another twitter tantrum. Reporter this is possibly marco rubios last chance. Maybe he needs to make sure that his pants are not wet. And a little mouth on him, bing, bing, bing. Bing, bing, bing. And he is flying around on Hair Force One and tweeting. Reporter and they are not the first to hit below the belt. George h. W. Bush attacking clinton. My dog millie knows more about Foreign Affairs these these two bozos. And this is president clinton taking aim at obama. This is the biggest fairytale i have ever seen. Reporter and then it reached a new low. He should sue the person who did that to his face. And some have been calling each other nasty, but it is over issues and not over each other. Reporter does nasty work . We will find out tonight. Andrea mitchell, nbc news. We will be back with other news stay there. Been kept secret until now, and private papers seized from osama bin ladens secret compound, and even as the the votes are still being counted, our political experts like our own chuck todd say there are only a gop side. Either trump is the nominee, or we are haed eaded for a contested something that has not happened in a long time. Peter alexander explains. Reporter it is a political junkies dream and political partys night meier. A broker ord more accurately contested convention where no candidate won a majority of the delegates before the summer convention. The delegates that you are hearing about party to convention yeah, those guys. The Republican Party will assign more than 2700 of them. Right now, donald trump has all of the momentum, but less than 100 of the 1,237 that he needs to secure a simple majority. And if trumps show g ing is not as strong as some polls suggest, it is going to be tougher for him to reach the image magic number to win the nomination outright, but march 15th, the states shift from vote counts to winner take all which could help a candidate like marco rubio catch up quickly a. Win in florida, his home state, is worth 99 delegates, but that is maybe not enough still without a bump tonight. The Rubio Campaign has are already drafted plans to overtame trump in a contested convention. But ted cruz say s s it wont come to that a contested convention is the great hope of the republican reporter the last one was decades ago when adelaide stevenson got the nod. I accept your nomination. Reporter here is how it works in the first round most delegates are bound to vote por for the candidate they represent, but if there is no clear winner, they can keep voting and candidates can pick up other votes. That is large task. And the partys delegates get to created a dissional rules one week pf the convention, and it is nothing to stop them from adding a new name like say the 2012 nominee, mitt romney or say speaker of the house paul ryan. Clearly, a contested convention is rare, and not likely to come to that this summer, but with a growing movement inside of the Republican Party to support a nominee other than donald trump, tonight, the republican s cleveland this summer are bigger. Lester . Thank you, peter. Tonight, u. S. Intelligence has released a treasure trove of documents seized from osama bin ladens compound including a handwritten will for how he wants to fund jihad. And also, how he wants to reach out for a media blitz on the anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. When we come bak ck, tom brokaw is going to join us with final for some final thoughts on this super tuesday, we are joined now by tom brokaw, and what do you make, tom, of what we have seen soer far and where where are going . Well, the wave is developingk but plainly another good night for donald trump, and the question is what happens to the other candidates, and with oklahoma in play with the republican side and virginia in play, there is reason for people like ted cruz who is strong in texas, and marco rubio to hang in the race, and john kasich is doing pretty well in the northeast is trying to get to ohio. A lot of people in the republican establish ment ment want to clean it out from the bottom up, but probably not going to bep happening tonight, but they want to get oneonone with trump, and another big night for trump, but typically this year, chaos continues, lester. Tom brokaw, good to have you here. That is going to do it for us on this tuesday night, super tuesday, and we are back on the air with the breaking news and the latest results as they come in and the primetime special across the country begins at central. Im lester holt for nbc nightly watching. [ music ] this tuesday wont be super for everyone, thats for sure. Hundreds of delegates are at stake across 13 states as campaigns look too build momentum, or stem a slide. Polls have closed in most of the states, and were getting some results in. Hillary clinton is declared victory in alabama. Bernie sander has won in his