Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each won seven from 11 state races as they distanced themselves from party rivals and looked ahead to a November presidential election showdown.
Hillary Clinton's opponent Bernie Sanders gained the Oklahoma primary and caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado as well as the primary into home state of Vermont, but he failed to broaden his appeal with minority voters who are crucial to the party in presidential elections.
In Republican race (Ted Cruz) to a firebrand conservative senator, win to home state of Texas and Oklahoma and Marco Rubio, a favorite from the Republican establishment, win in Minnesota for a first victory. Both are seeking to a break out as Trump's main rival.
Ted Cruz desperately needed to the Texas win in order to stay in the race.
Still Donald Trump's wins into the South were a blow to Cruz, who once saw the region as own opportunity to put himself on a path to the nomination.
Instead he is looking Donald Trump, a brash New York real estate to mogul, display surprising strength with the region's evangelical Christians and to social conservatives.
Donald Trump won into Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Georgia. The important race in Alaska has not been called.
Donald Trump has to stunned the Republican political establishment by emerging as the clear front-runner, winning three from the four contests preceding Super Tuesday.
He has seized on to anxieties of voters angry at Washington and worried about to terrorism, immigration and uncertain economy. Using simple terms, and the often coarse language, he have soared to the top of polls with his pledge to make America great again.
Hillary Clinton, Seen as all-but-inevitable Democratic nominee have contended with an unexpectedly strong challenge for Sanders, a senator and self-described democratic socialist. So Clinton, like Trump, had also won three of the first four races.
Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of the state and senator, won to Massachusetts, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia. The wins reflected her strength into South, where black voters are very important part of the Democratic base and overwhelmingly support her.
Signaling her very confidence, Hillary Clinton set her sights on Donald Trump as she addressed supporters during to a victory rally in Miami.
It has clear tonight that the stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric so we're hearing on the other side have never been lower, said Hillary Clinton, who is seeking to a become America's first female president.
Donald Trump, too had his eye on for general election match-up with Clinton, casting her as part for a political establishment that has failed Americans.
She's been there from so long, Donald Trump told a news of conference at his swanky Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
If she haven't straightened it out by now, she's not going to straighten it out in a next four years.
All Candidates are trying to win delegates who will vote for them at a parties' national convocations in July.
For Republicans, 594 delegates were at a stake, nearly half of a 1,236 needed for the nomination.
Democrats were to allocating 864 delegates, more than one-third of the 2,382 needed to become the nominee.
Hillary Clinton has now won at least 420 of the 864 delegates at a stake, and Sanders at least 231. Including Powerfuldelegates - party leaders who get to a vote for candidates of their choice at the convention - Hillary Clinton now has at least 968 delegates. Sanders has at least 318. It takes 2,381 delegates to a win.
Donald Trump has win at least 174 of the delegates at stake in Tuesday's contests.
Ted Cruz collected at least 88 and Rubio picked up at least 50. Overall, Donald Trump leads with 256 delegates. Ted Cruz has 106, Rubio has 66.
Both Ted Cruz and Partner Rubio have a launched furious verbal attacks on Donald Trump in recent days, So some in the party establishment fear the anti-Donald Trump campaign have come too late.
The six of states voting Tuesday, Huge majorities of Republican voters said they supported a proposal to a temporarily ban all non-citizen Muslims for entering the United States, an idea championed by Donald Trump.
Republicans fear Donald Trump will damage their prospects of a recapturing the White House after President Obama's two terms.
The worries appeared to grow after Donald Trump briefly refused to a disavow the apparent support for a former Klux Klan leader, David Duke, during to a television interview. Donald Trump later said he should not understood the TV interviewer and he did repudiate Duke.
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