States, 865 delegates with donald trump already holding a commanding lead. No Campaign Events scheduled today. Nikki haley back home in South Carolina also not campaigning today. A Big Decision Pending On Whether or not she wants to stay in the race. Joe biden rolling out some Consumer Protection initiatives and preparing a state of the Union Address for thursday that he hopes will ignite more enthusiasm among the Democratic Base. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Its Super Tuesday. The largest single day voting contest for the republican nomination. Donald trump is on the ballot in all 15 gop races after yesterdays Supreme Court decision declaring that states cannot bar him for allegedly engaging in insurrection on january 6. 865 republican delegates are up for grabs. More than a third of the republican delegates. How they are allocated depends where you live. The biggest prize, california, with 169. Its winner take all. Its a closed primary. The majority of todays
alabamians have in his op ed, stay home, don t vote at all because you don t want to deal with this. write in a candidate or vote for doug jones and jeff sessions or luther strange could wage a write-in campaign. strange could resign. these are very serious questions. when you cover washington, april, the odds of one of these options, luther strange or jeff sessions given a republican write-in option, is that at this point a real option? well, you never know what people may do. you can write in who you want. i think back to the tumultus couple months that jeff sessions had with president trump and even in the worse of times jeff sessions said i m not going anywhere. i stand by this president. he did not resign. he made it clear. the president allowed him to stay. that as republicans were saying,
the woman, yes. he says they are looking to see if a write-in option could be successful. that s a that is a very major statement coming from i mean, backstory, mitch mcconnell did not support roy moore at all. he supported luther strange. so did the president in that primary. but what does this mean, keith? clearly there is no there is bad blood between the two of them and the moment the story first broke, mitch mcconnell said that roy moore should consider withdrawing, but he had never said he actually believed the allegations until now. that s a major development. what s happening here is damaging to the republican party brand at the worst possible time. they just lost the election, practically crucified last week. i guess as we were just listening to the voters they don t care what mitch mcconnell has to think. yeah. and that s troubling to because the base of the party is not necessarily in step with the leadership of the party. you have people like the alabama state a
you re not on all states. you re in 11 states, registered as a valid write-in option in over 30 others. we have ballot access in one way or other in 43 states. the vast majority of americans will be able to cast a vote for me. we have a modest goal. it is a hard one, admittingly, but it is what we had available to us, which is to block hillary clinton and donald trump from reaching a majority in the electoral college. so it goes to the house then? so then what happens? well, if neither gets a majority, then the top three finishers in the electoral college on november 8th would proceed to the house of representatives. right. where each state would get a vote. we think we could compete well there. why is that a more democratic option than what we have now? why is that better than the electoral college? look, it s our system. do you think it is better? it is the way the
did you get the change and the hope that you believed in? well, it turns out those republican candidates, they had a little competition, too. i don t think i m stealing any spotlight. in fact, if anybody thinks that i m stealing the spot, go, go find the other folks and say, hello. now, sarah palin wasn t in the big debate last night and she rolled into the state fair, nonetheless, even work a digalt the newest candidate texas governor rick perry as she nadknown, join the republican dance. there s a lot of contemplation that needs to go into earth shattering life saving decision for everyone. a packed hour tonight, including putting every debate statements to the truth test, like this one. that s right. i was very vocal against that tax, and i fought against that tax. let s begin live in iowa on the eve of a republican straw poll that has no official role in the gop nominating contest, but has a history of derailing once promising candidacies. at state fair in d