03 March,2016 08:19 AM IST | | Agencies
The front-runners registered decisive victories in the Super Tuesday primaries — the biggest day of the race — each winning seven states, inching them closer to being nominated by their parties
Washington: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton yesterday surged ahead in the 2016 US presidential polls by posting emphatic wins in the crucial âSuper Tuesday' primaries as an epic face-off between the two front-runners seemed likely after the biggest day of the race for nominations.
Coming within striking distance of becoming the Republican nominee, Trump, notched up victories in seven states - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Trump (69) emerged from the contests closer than ever to the nomination.
68-year-old Clinton, who is the Democratic Party front-runner, also clinched seven states in the 'Super Tuesday' primaries - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. She won big among African-American voters and reversed a 2008 primary loss in Virginia to President Barack Obama.
However, both Clinton and Trump were denied a clean sweep, which many poll pundits had predicted on Super Tuesday, the 2016 campaign's biggest day of nominating contests. On the Republican side, Ted Cruz claimed the day's biggest prize - Texas - along with Oklahoma and Alaska. On the Democrat side, Clinton's main rival Bernie Sanders registered victories in four states - Colorado, Oklahoma, Minnesota and his home state of Vermont.
