Hillary Clinton looks to wrap up nomination on Super Tuesday

US Elections

Clinton and Trump, frontrunners in the US presidential nomination, are seeking to finish off their challengers on Super Tuesday. Support from black voters is a key factor in Clinton's run. 

Registered Democrat and Republican party members began voting in primary elections on Tuesday in what is the pivotal day for determining candidates for the November 8 presidential election.


Democrats will vote in 11 states and in the US territory American Samoa on Super Tuesday, with 865 delegates. It will take 2,383 delegates to secure the nomination at the party's national convention in July in Philadelphia.

Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake - nearly half the 1,237 delegates needed to gain the nomination at the party's convention in July in Ohio.
Clinton campaigns
Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton began the campaign as the favorite before Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made a strong showing, gaining support especially from young voters.

Over the weekend, Clinton beat Sanders in the South Carolina primary, securing 86 percent of the African-American vote in her third win in four contests. Should she gain the support of black voters by similar margins in places like Alabama, Georgia and Virginia on Tuesday, it will be hard for Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, to bounce back.