Its the biggest election day of the year so far. Welcome to cnns Special Coverage of super tuesday im wolf blitzer in washington and im kate bolduan in new york. The first polls are closing in just a few hours from now. And turnout in states like North Carolina is strong as millions of americans and six next extreme states are now voting for republicans. It is a big day, 865 delegates are at stake. Donald trump expected to win most of them making the republican front runner almost unstoppable potentially. By the end of this light tonight, trump is expected to be within striking distance of the 1,215 delegates needed to win the republican president ial nomination, which raises the big question, what does nikki haley do next . Our less than an hour will be getting our first early clues about the outcome of tonights vote. Thats where we get the first results from our exit polls. We have our reporters fanned out across the nation right now is better. Voters are heading to the polls. I want
a long time since i ve been home and i got to be drifting along. our condolences to his family. see you on the radio. special coverage of the new hampshire primary continues right now. turnout is strong in new hampshire. voters are continuing heading to the polls at this hour. welcome to our coverage of the new hampshire primary. the new hampshire secretary of state thing there could be record turnout today in what is now a two-person race. donald trump versus nikki haley. she is the clear underdog tonight. she has staked her entire campaign on a strong finish in new hampshire are trying to make the case she can defeat trump and win in the general election. today telling orders she is in this for the long haul. this has always been a marathon. it has never been a sprint. we want to be strong in iowa, stronger in new hampshire, even stronger in south carolina we are running the tape. meanwhile, trump telling reporters even if he is able to secure a decisive three
how donald trump is ahead of hill in five key swing states, that in a new york times poll. biden consider dropping out of the race, such as former obama campaign strategist and white house official david axelrod. the issue is not for him is not political it is actual and you can see that in this poll and there s just a lot of concern about the age issue. it just has to ask himself is is this the best path? the cnn serving as brutal trump and among younger votes and independents, and the former president winning 23% of the black vote and 46% of the latino vote. and this gut punch only a quarter of americans say the 80-year-old biden has stamina and sharpness to serve effectsively as president no way biden is withdrawing from race and polls one year out a cloudy crystal ball, now trump has his own baggage with all of the indictments and civil fraud trial, and somehow helping him among republicans. meeting so riled up they re running more stories warning about the danger
tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of folks in alabama will be getting a lot of coverage and seeing that speech live there in florida. gabe, thank you. for more on this, karen is the national political correspondent at the washington post, ben white, chief economic correspondent at politico, also a cnbc contributor. karen, let me start with you. let s show everyone the poll numbers on white women voters. they come from exit polling numbers, there apparently isn t any exit polling numbers on white women voters in 2016. in 2012, 83% of white women backed mitt romney. what happens nationally if moore is elected? i think it puts the republican party in washington in a difficult spot. basically he ll be walking into
major shift in power happening in the united kingdom. we will go live to mike tobin in london with more on this tonight. what is going on? well, martha, if the exit polling numbers are accurate, a couple of explanations that the tories are learning the hard way. one is that the antiestablishment passion is not going away. two, a downside to risk. they took a risk with the brexit voting. the prime minister theresa may took a big gamble calling for this early election, antonella according to the exit poll numbers, she has lost her majority. the labour party, her opponents gained seats, but not enough for a majority either. the british pound is taking a big hit. bouncing back a little bit, but down considerably. make no mistake about it, terrorism did play a role in this outcome. theresa may went in thinking it would be a one issue election, all about brexit, but campaigning was stopped twice because of terrorist bloodshed.