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it's 10:00 in the east, 7:00 in the last. super tuesday across america. the results are coming in at our special coverage starts right now. >> we are coming like a freight train in november. >> i refused to quit. i'm not going anywhere. >> if you want to save america, then you must go and vote. >> democracy is on the ballot. freedom is on the ballot. >> do you want more of the same, or do you want something new? >> 2024 is our final battle. >> my question to you is simple: are you ready? >> announcer: this is a cbs news special. "america decides: campaign '24 super tuesday. now reporting from the nation's capital, norah o'donnell.

>> norah: good evening and welcome to the biggest primary night of the 2020 for election as the stage is nearly set for the general. it will likely be a rematch between joe biden and donald trump. that would be the first time in more than 100 years that a sitting president and a former president face off. tonight is at critical nights that will help craft america's future potentially for generations to come. millions of americans in 16 states are having their voices heard. we are talking about a total of 865 republican delegates that are at stake. that's more than 70% of what's needed to clinch the nomination. president joe biden is rolling to the victories tonight, and donald trump has already won ten contests. but is this the rematch that americans want? nikki haley says she's still fighting but doesn't have any events tonight. this past week and she did win mark her first victory here in d.c., the first woman to ever win a republican presidential primary. meanwhile, trump hopes to

continue his march toward a third straight republican presidential nomination. we want to show you the live pictures of the ballroom at mar-a-lago that is trump's florida residents and his country club is an excited crowd is waiting for the former president to speak. we're going to have a live report from there just a moment. also the polls are now closing all but three of the contests and we have the results for you. cbs news can project donald trump will win the second biggest delegate prize of the night, that's texas. as you can see come a dominant win there. trump also picks up a big win in colorado just a day after the supreme court ruled he cannot be eliminated from the ballot in that state. cbs news also projects the former president will win north carolina. that's the only 1 of 7 general election battleground states voting tonight but we'll be talking about north carolina. look at their share of the vote nikki haley got. also polls. look at this. vermont, much tighter at this hour. the polls actually close to

three hours ago but cbs news charaterizes it as a toss-up between donald trump and nikki haley. more than half the votes in. this could be haley's only win of the night in this tiny state. trump picked up a win in virginia, receiving at least 39 delegates there. cbs news can also project that trump win in the state of tennessee. let's take a look at the democratic side. president biden picked up a win in north carolina as well as in minnesota. he did stave off the uncommitted option but it did get 15.5% of the vote. that uncommitted is a protest vote against biden and his response to the israel-hamas war. also let's take a look now at the national map. trump is already projected to win every other state that has close to tonight. arkansas, oklahoma, alabama, minnesota, and maine. it's also a similar dominant story if we look at the democratic map. president joe biden is facing little opposition and he's sweeping every super tuesday

state. primaries are about amassing delegates. a republican candidate needs 1215 to clinch the nomination. so let's take a look at the race at this hour. including some tonight's delegates. trump has now 626. haley significantly behind with 53. although president trump cannot clinch the nomination tonight, it could happen as early as next week, march 12. and you can bet he's going to claim victory tonight. with me here is our powerhouse political team to discuss all of this. analysis, contacts, let's start with you, john dickerson. dominant wins by both of them tonight. what does it say about donald trump? >> it's the first time a major american party in a democracy will nominate somebody who worked so hard to undermine democracy. ever since he lost in the 2020 election going all the way until this last week and when he claimed he won that election which is a lie that disenfranchises 81 million people. this isn't just a nomination of a person. it's a nomination of a set of

ideas which we've seen over eight years since donald trump has been on the scene that basically the rule of law democracy, facts are valid only when they work for donald trump. there were hints of that of course in 2016 for the party has now decided that's what we are signing up for which means the voters have this choice. not just which canada can handle the surprises of the job, the issues but which of them believn facts, that law should be follot democracy and free and fair elections are important. those are three things a president has to believe in to get anything done. >> norah: we saw tonight the exit polls or people are voting on our issues like immigration and the economy. margaret brennan, on those top issues, people do not think the joe biden is doing a good job. >> no, they don't. and we've seen within his democratic base a lack of consolidation that you would believe that this early stage he might have a better hold on if you compare it to donald trump gently with his very committed set of supporters that john was talking about there. but what we're seeing right now in this moment we are in is a

sense of high anxiety, global instability, and how people feel affects what they say about the direction of the country. four years ago this month, donald trump shutdown the u.s. economy due to covid. it led to the worst mass layoffs that we saw two's the great recession. and yet our cbs polling shows that people believe that the economy was doing better. they feel more positive in hindsight about that period. it's almost as if they have forgotten. in comparison to where they are now, they think they might have been better off on her donald trump. look at that you say memory is a funny thing. americans might have short memories there. it's the one that's because we do all want to forget the pandemic. >> fair point. >> norah: you are thinking about what you're spending at the grocery store which shows it's the highest in 30 years. >> that is a fact but again facts aren't necessarily

persuasive in this day and age. a senior fed official i recently spoke with sort of recall that saying there's a mismatch. look at consumers continue to spend despite these high prices. what they are doing and saying are not the same thing. but pointing the anxiety caused by global instability, by the wars in europe, more the middle east and domestic crisis, the inability of lawmakers to solve the big problems facing us at this moment in time. these two candidates have eight months to fix it. >> norah: robert costa, we call this "america decides" because we do get here from voters may get a sense of what they're thinking. we have two nominees that most people actually don't want them to be the nominees. they say that, they think both of them are too old. they also both have a number of weaknesses. donald trump has many weaknesses and yet he has a stranglehold on republican party. >> we are doing all weekend to listen to voters and the stories that we are hearing tell us a lot about was having this country especially within the republican party to build upon

what john said and what margaret said, there's a lot of concern inside the republican party about trump's conduct in and around henry six and there is concern about many voters about how trump handles issues like ukraine and about what it would need to have a second trump presidency, another trump term when it comes to domestic policy and foreign policy. cbs news exit polling shows that among nikki haley supporters, there's a fervent belief that trump should not be the nominee and that if he were to be the nominee, as this is all showing us tonight, they might not support him. in fact, in north carolina, cbs news exit polling shows that about 80% of nikki haley supporters couldn't support the nominee. that's a warning sign for the trump campaign. he's winning many delegates tonight but there's an alarm bell going on among traditional republicans. >> norah: as we are waiting to hear from donald trump, will speak shortly from mar-a-lago, does, does he need to unify the republican party or those people who voted for him to keep

trailing nikki haley not going to come home in november. >> i've talked to sources at mar-a-lago tonight alongside former president trump and you can expect them tonight to pivot hard, not to make appeals to nikki haley or traditional republicans but hope he can win them over by talking about the border, talking about the economy, hoping that the issues will bring republicans together. the focus on president biden will bring them together. but there are a lot of battle scars left over from generous sixth and the trump presidency. those who were not in the trump campaign say trump has a lot of work to do especially among suburban voters who say look, we like trump on policy but do we really want to have that trump presidency again? >> norah: yeah. ed o'keefe, i'm going to get to you in a minute because i know you have new reporting about president biden but caitlin huey-burns as they are at mar-a-lago in palm beach i know she's been talking to trump's advisors. tell us the mood. what are you learning? >> reporter: it's good to be with you.

as you can see behind me this is a packed ballroom and an enthusiastic crowd. donald trump's family just arrived and we are expecting the former president to make remarks here soon. what's interesting about tonight is you talk to the campaign officials and they say tonight is going exactly as planned. they were looking for a super tuesday suite not only to show solidification of the republican party but to force-out his last remaining rival, nikki haley. i asked a senior campaign official if they were anticipating that haley could win anywhere and he told me "who? look what i think that answers your question. so they have not been thinking about nikki haley. tonight is said trying to project general election matchup and what's significant here is they said their message is not going to change heading into the general election. however, winning the nomination, clinching the nomination as they could do as early as next week would allow them to have the mechanism, the infrastructure of the rnc and the national party.

>> norah: caitlin huey-burns in mar-a-lago. we will check back in with you. ed o'keefe, i know you've been talking to advisors in the white house. how are they looking at tonight? >> like the rest of us they are looking at the nikki haley numbers and thinking this is great for them because it continues to show the former president's inability to pull the party together. as bob said, eight and ten of her supporters in north carolina, nearly seven in ten in virginia, seven intent in california. why did they care about virginia and california? it can help them in down ballot congressional races, gubernatorial races in north carolina if the democratic party can pull those people upset with donald trump away. the other thing you're going to continue to hear from the biden campaign in the coming days is how well-prepared they are at least financially. 42 million dollars raised in the 29 days of february they report tonight. 2 million on leap day alone. example of their belief that they have this huge structural advantage at a time of the former president is struggling not only to pay legal bills but

figure out how to raise money for his election campaign, norah. >> a lot of that money is going to go towards reminding people about the donald trump years which goes to the question of what they do remember and don't. it will go towards writing them with donald trump -- not the donald trump of the recollection but the donald trump is the biden cabinet would like to remember it. >> norah: so much change structurally. in the last presidential primary nikki haley, if she had won or any opponent had won in congressional districts it would have a much better shot at picking up delegates but things changed in the past four years, right? >> you really have to step back tonigh if you're watching the numbers here on the screen, you say hailey is getting 18% here, 20% here, the 30%, 40% but so many of these states are now a winner-take-all and that changes how the entire race unfolds. you have trump now knowing this and running a campaign in the primary knowing that so many states are winner-take-all of that he could quickly wrap up this nomination.

this is part of a bigger story and the g.o.p. during the past four years, tom has been out of power but also gaining power. taking over state authorities, making sure the rnc was in his image and now tonight he's able to push forward toward the nomination and toward the convention because of the way it's set up, winner-take-all and so many places. >> norah: let's take a look at vermont because that's one of the story lines we are covering tonight. data just coming in, the latest vote tally shows it's neck and neck in vermont. haley has now taken a slight lead with more -- i can't see that far, ed. can you help me out? >> 49.1 to 47%. >> norah: 86% of the vote, that's what i was looking at. >> it's emblematic of the brand damage that's been done to the republican party across the north east end of england especially. but at the end of the day if all you're winning is vermont and the district of columbia your winning the g.o.p. of yest yesteryear. it's over for her most likely.

if this is the only place she can win, it's time to move on. >> vermont has very few republicans. we have covered senator bernie sanders a lot. there's sometimes more people at a taylor swift concert then voting the vermont republican party. >> norah: [laughs] yes. but what do we expect from nikki haley after tonight? >> she is not trying to make an argument to the vase as much as she is to the rest of the country to be the alternative to donald trump should there be one of these situations that columnists get paid a lot of money to sketch out is a complete hypothetical when you have two elderly men competing with each other for this nomination. one of them facing 91 felony count indictments. the question mark surround this his race if it is indeed one about how long and who is actually going to be able to persuade the electorate giving these big? his out there and she has been betting on that throughout, consummate nails make an argument for the party.

>> nora: one about that. what happens nikki haley after tonight. >> it's and extruder question almost worthy of a great novel because she has to make this choice. does she join the romney-liz cheney anti-trump group which has a physical component. people are in danger who have done that. but did she do that and stick with the things she's been saying or does she come back into the fold which annoy under annoyance were the key messages trump has changed the republican party to believe in eight years which is basically everything is transactional. stuff tht you can say, you can reverse it tomorrow and it will be fine even if it's one of the most vital and important parts of character, morality, and politics. which of the two paths will she choose. to be an independent operator or come back in the fold and try to be, if donald trump lets her come up part of this new extra ordinary -- >> norah: does donald trump need nikki haley's motors and hundred to beat joe biden? >> yes.

>> might not necessarily put her on the ticket though. we saw that with reagan and bush. he sometimes bring your ride along. for trumpets about just plowing forward and believing he can get those voters on the issues. >> he needs her voters but she may not be the avenue towards getting them. she has issues with him to go deeper than a surrogate could fix. >> it's a big towel she's not delivering a speech tonight. she's watching the returns hunted tells you about where she stands. >> norah: lots to discuss whom we come back, what voters are telling us. tonight our election data desk hard at work analyzing information from across the nation. that's when we come back. when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis takes you off course.

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they cast their ballots. we also found that many of them feel angry about how things are going in this country so let's bring in our cbs news elections and surveys executive director anthony salvanto. good to see you. i know you've been pouring through all the numbers and trump has remained the republican party in his image. what do the numbers show? >> good to see you. let me start with this because it's so important to his voter base. do joe biden win legitimately in 2020? i'll show you a north carolina exit poll but it's typical of what we see nationwide. republicans say no. three quarters of republicans saying no, they don't think joe biden won legitimately. what's important about this is that they have heard donald trump's unproven, false claims about the 2020 election and that leads into this. when we asked people, in this case north carolina, is donald trump fit to be president even if convicted of a crime? the republican primary voters

there are saying yes, he is. the reason they feel that way is that they think that these charges against him are politically motivated and they think that he had a legitimate claim to try to stay in office. and so that underpins why they say yes even if he's convicted, norah. >> norah: anthony, let me ask you about independence. we know they are larger part of the electorate, more than 40% of the voters identify themselves as independents. either of these candidates will have to win them in order to win in a general election. what are we hearing from them tonight? >> two things. one is look at the way this has shifted from 2020 were joe biden perform well with independents and now our latest cbs news national polling in which trump is up among them. part of that is the economy. that's a big part. part of it is immigration. that's a big part of this. it's obviously going to be a big thing to watch and with thing i will add quickly is watch that

nikki haley vote tonight because in the republican primaries where independents are coming in, they are supporting nikki haley in larger numbers and she is going to argue even though she's not on track to get the nomination, she's going to argue that that means republicans are leaving votes on the table. she would be able to pick up those voters that donald trump cannot. >> norah: really interesting, anthony salvanto. that's why we love those exit polls. thank you so much. let's bring in our strategist tonight, democratic strategist joel payne and republican strategist leslie sanchez. great to have both of you. joel, let's talk first about president biden. he's facing the lowest approval rating since jimmy carter. he's underwater when it comes to immigration, the economy, dealing with foreign policy in the israel-hamas war. what do democrats need to do to shore up his support? >> one thing i learned not to do

is fight with polls or pollsters. they are what they are. they don't look great for the president. i do think what he needs is a couple things. one, pretty quick resolution of the situation in gaza. that's putting a lot of stress and strain on his coalition. a lot of leaf fall off you seen a lot of public polls, even the cds pools in biden's coalition is from traditional democratic constituencies, young voters, voters of color. obviously the recent michigan democratic primary, a lot of muslim american voters. some. he's got to bring those folks home. he's got to do base persuasion. he and his allies are going to have to lock down those folks before they go after independents and moderates to get back to sea level this time around. >> norah: joel, thank you. leslie, i want to ask you about, talking about joe biden, he has weaknesses. donald trump has weaknesses. facing 91 indictment spread over four trials. he has been ordered to pay more than half a billion dollars in civil judgments against him yet

he's had some of the best weeks of his campaign so far from the supreme court to really doing very well in all of the states tonight. what does he need to do tonight. is he need to unify the party? >> many republicans hope he does that that he's magnanimous or extending an olive branch to those disenchanted voters that have supported haley to this point. if you look at her numbers and we heard you talking about independents, part of that is going to be democrats who are jumping over, crossing over undeclared into republican primaries but there is a highly conflicted group of particularly women and those suburban areas who do not like his character, the chaos surrounding him, or the criminal legal cases and he is against him. and that cross pressure is going to make it really difficult for him to gain that support unless he does a deliberate effort to refocus them on the economy and on the border. >> norah: those are both interesting points and of course we still have eight months to go before november. thanks to both of you.

we also have cbs reporters spread across the country that are focusing on the key issues and the races in their areas onn the super tuesday so let's get a chicken starting with cbs news political campaign reporter touring small. he's in north carolina. >> north carolina was the only battleground state voting today and party leaders tell me it's absolutely in play in november. why? because it's commonplace to see single-digit margins of victory in statewide races, just like donald trump 2020 when here where he beat joe biden by just over 1%. it's a purple state and is also known to split tickets. that same year voters elected a democrat for governor, republican for lieutenant governor, and a democrat for attorney general. stein and robinson will face off in a general election gubernatorial contest in november so the take away here is the convictional -- conventional wisdom of a down ballot going either side might not apply in north carolinians

tend to have a swing state of mind. with how super tuesday is going in the northeast, john keller is in boston. >> reporter: good evening. if there's any state voting tonight that ought to be fertile ground for nikki haley, it's massachusetts. famous for electing moderate republicans like former governor charlie baker, a prominent never-trumper who heads the ncaa. haley staged her big local rally this past weekend in a boston suburb that was baker's birthplace. it's telling that baker was essentially chased out of the massachusetts g.o.p. by trump supporters for whom any trump critic is a rino, republican in name only. haley faces the same fate tonight in a state were these days that soil can't seem to sustain moderate republicanism any better than anywhere else. now it's over to caroline cummings in minneapolis. >> reporter: building up momentum in michigan, there was also an effort in minnesota to

get people to vote uncommitted instead of president joe biden is a way to protest the israel-hamas war and put political pressure on the white house to call for a permanent cease-fire but unlike michigan, activists here tell me that they didn't set any turnout target so any votes they would consider a win but their real victory they say is if president biden gets the message and they hope a national effort will deliver it to him loud and clear. my colleague jack fink in dallas has an update from texas. >> reporer: thanks, caroline. our big races for u.s. senate. north texas congressman lisa crowded democratic primary in the polls and may win out right and avoid. his biggest competitor is a state senator of san antonio, progressive denim that trickle democrat who is the most state lawmaker forgotten restrictions after the tragedy in uvalde. he has raised more money than anyone.

ted cruz won a very close race in 2018, analyst say it's going to be an uphill climb for a democrat to unseat him this year. border security is the top issue in texas and every republican is running on it this year but not democrats. now let's check in with gary dietrich in sacramento with a look at what's happening in california. reporter mark two significant items of note. first of the presidential race with the california g.o.p. changed its delegate assignment rules last summer. such that any candidate to get 50% of the vote plus one takes all of the states g.o.p. delegates. that's thought to benefit donald trump and also place the california republican party in an even more prominent role nationally. secondly the u.s. senate rate. to the surprise of many, poll last friday showed public and steve garvey had taken the lead in the race. how does that happen in the deep blue state? his chief democrtic rival, congressman adam schiff has

spent heavily promoting garvey's candidacy to the republican base because adam schiff believes it will be easier to defeat over a republican, november. >> norah: let's take a look at the map because trump has won 11 states at this hour and is expected to do well. it's tight in vermont but other than that he's exacted almost have a clean sweep tonight. john dickerson, that's virtually impressive. >> he's dominated not only this race which has basically been hit since the beginning but think about what he's done to the republican party since 2015. he has remade an entire party not only changed position on things like trade, support for russia, personal character is either a help or hindrance to a nomination. he has changed all of these individual ideas within the republican party buddies now made support for him on a number of loyalty tests the sign of whether you're a good republican or not. that dominance over a party is

something that's extraordinary. that we have never seen before. >> norah: he is about to become dominant over the republican national committee. ronna mcdaniel is stepping down at the end of the week. he will install his own candidate including his daughter-in-law. they have said they will not use the rnc for legal bills but i could always change. just because donald trump says something doesn't mean that's always true, he follows through on that. what is it say about donald trump's remaking of the republican party? >> it says that it's thorough. going back to bob's earlier point about all these change in these individual states making them winner-take-all, that part was the result of work done by the trump forces which showed that he knew how to do that delicate inside game work which in 2016 he didn't do. he blundered in and won everything but in this case he's got some tactical success and that's got to be something buying people worry about. >> norah: and yet they have done a poor job of raising mo money. >> behind-the-scenes trump is meeting with major donors.

elon musk, had a private meeting with elon musk. he's talking to donors, here's the thing about the trump campaign, he controls the party as john said but he does not control his time. he's going to have to sit in a new york courtroom as the criminal hush money payments to a porn star, that trial begins march 25th. >> it's only helped him in fund-raising. >> norah: coming up we are going to talk about the issues that matter most to voters and could decide this election. you're watching "super tuesday" right here on cbs. salonpas lidocaine flex. a super thin, flexible patch with maximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieve pain right where it hurts. and did we mention, it really, really sticks? salonpas, it's good medicine. if you're looking for a medicare supplement insurance plan that's smart now... i'm 65.

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dominating tonight's cbs news projects he will win 11 states including virginia, alabama, north carolina, maine, oklahoma, tennessee, arkansas, colorado and texas. now let's turn to the democratic race. president biden projected to win all 14 states that have close to so far tonight. i think we know what the general election is going to look like although not calling it. we can take a look at the delegates and here's where trump and haley stand. total delegates needed is 1215. tonight 865 are up for grams, more than 70% of what's needed. trump with 728. we also want to take some time to talk about the issues on voters' minds. the biggest right now is immigration. recent gallup survey finds that almost a third of americans say immigration is the single most important issue. immigration has passed government is the most often cited problem.

i know you were just on the southern border last week and if you look at those same numbers, two-thirds of americans disapprove of the job president biden is doing at the border. >> yeah and it's an issue he's been reluctant to tackle but now understands he has to because not only is it a political problem. it speaks to a basic function of government issues and if the government can't be seen as securing the country in essence from this problem then he and his whole purpose for being president is failing. another 140,000 illegal crossings in the month of february, from january. their exciting higher numbers come spring. the issues he's nearly always goes up and it will be going up right as we have the summer and the issue is not going anywhere. the issue for the president however he can't get republicans in congress to work with him on actual legislation. in the meantime donald trump will keep telling them don't do it because it's a good issue for us politically. >> norah: one of bringing leslie sanchez. you've been working on a study on this. this has changed a shift in

hispanic voters. >> tremendously. we saw .16 and certainly 2020 donald trump was winning areas along the u.s.-mexico border in texas that hadn't been won in 100 years, the last democratic strongholds that are blue but looking in texas 23, swing district for the last three decades is going to go into a runoff because you've got tony gonzalez and someone running to the right of him. latinos are consistently voting pocketbook issues but border security and trump ignited that movement. we expect that to continue along the sun belt with more states facing this crisis on the border looking for trump as an alternative. >> norah: leslie, thank you. this talk about the economy. cbs news poll found registered voters remember the economy is better under donald trump than the current president. they also believe joe biden's policies are more likely to make prices go up than trump's policies. let's bring in senior business and technology correspondent.

the stock market soaring, low unemployment, inflation cooling and yet for many people it's the costs that have gone up at the grocery store. >> yes. that compounding effect of inflation and that's exactly what the former president donald trump is going to be taking out on the campaign trail. tonight at mar-a-lago he just said we had no inflation. he's playing off the sentiment that so many voters are expressing in our cbs news polling. >> norah: to fact-check that. there was massive inflation. >> fact-check the inflation. fact-checking that inflation claimed by the president, average inflation under former president trump was 1.9%. if you look at average inflation under the current president, thus far it's 5.7%. so the issue is president trump wants to campaign on what he believes with a very strong

economy even though currently the economy, the economic, the unemployment number's, stock market rally are all very strong. they're still this disconnect, right? that's where voters don't feel because they continue to pay higher prices even though the rate of inflation is slowing down. prices continue to go up especially when it comes to monthly expenses like auto insurance and rent and even food continues to tick up. that's what we can expect to hear from president trump as he hits the campaign trail, trying to convince people that the economy was better under him that it is under president biden. but what we're seeing is a lot of people telling us that they are just waiting for interest rates to go down and for prices to moderate even more so they can make it month-to-month, norah. >> norah: what about that? we were talking about fact-checking. new home sales up 12% this year. the dow jones up 24%. wages up 15%. unemployment down, jobs added. biden is unable to communicate any record on the economy.

>> if i can add another thing, the economic issues they are going to face as the next president. if you're interested in inflation, donald trump has promised tariffs, inflationary. his immigration policies will cause wages to increase in prices to go up. he has no interest in cutting government spending as he has shown repeatedly. this is something republicans believe leads to higher prices. it's hard to find much and what he's promised to do that's going to reduce inflation. also you have important economic questions, social security and medicare which needs to be managed by whoever the next president's. investments in challenges to the economy, who's going to be the steward of those things. that's what the next president is going to have to deal with. those are the things they're going to be dealing with in settable people may recollect. >> norah: isn't why this is so important? the general election matchup. the debate is joined for the

clash of real ideas and what really are their records. >> i was with president biden michigan. i pulled him aside for a conversation and he said "come on, man. i'm trying to take on corporate america. i'm trying to win over the unions. close but he doesn't feel like he's breaking through because he's frustrated that the press in his view, his own democratic allies are not doing enough to forward his record. >> that's why we signed to a focus on the issue of junk fees at the white house believing if they can get credit card fees down, keep pushing the airlines to change the rules, they can turn around to voters and say look at all the little things i've done to help save you money. >> norah: i want to talk about one of the issues because president biden is having trouble consolidating his base, his most fervent supporters. reproductive rights may be a big issue since the supreme court overturned roe vs. wade two years ago. we've seen a number of states vote on abortion access and each time abortion rights has won in that fight is not over. this year, 15 states have or are

considering abortion matters that could be on the november ballot. in a cbs news poll the majority of americans think overturning roe vs. wade is bad for the country but nearly half of registered voters don't think trump should get credit or blame for that decision. how does this play out? >> norah, what you're putting your finger on is the thing democrats are putting a lot of hope and which is turnout based on fear. in those states where it's literally on the ballot, where people might show up because they care about the issue even if they don't like the man of the top of the ticket or even if they're in an opposite party. with the democrats are arguing is that is on the ballot in all states, all 50 of them. that's what gretchen whitmer of michigan is really pushing hard as a messenger in her state. but you saw how sharp the reversal was just recently in alabama. within two weeks of that state court defining embryos as children and putting restriction

on ivf, you don't have the governor looking this week at putting protections into law. this something democrats are really putting a lot of hope in charging turnout because of what you're talking about with not consolidating the base, uncommitted issues in michigan. minnesota we saw tonight, 15% of that uncommitted versus biden in the turnout that we do show. it's a real issue for them with the base and they are sort of all in on reproductive rights. >> look at those states that are holding referendum. pennsylvania, arizona, nevada, wisconsin and possibly florida. that's what still gives democrats hope. if you have that issue on the ballot in those four or five battleground states, the expectation is. >> that's that turnout issue. >> norah: lots more to talk about. we are going to dive into the trials against former president trump as he tries to campaign for a return for the white house. but will he be stuck in a court room? you are watching "super tuesday" on cbs news.

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>> norah: super tuesday coverage. we are talking about the trials donald trump will face. four criminal trials, the first one just 20 days from now in new york. robert, we are standing in front of this calendar just to give people a sense of how much time we expect trump to be in a courtroom. >> remember when we were in school and you have to have these overlapping calendars. for president trump, this is a political and legal reality. looking at this calendar starting on march 25th he's going to be required by law to sit in a lower manhattan courtroom for this criminal hush money payments trial. michael cohen, his longtime fixer, made payments to stormy daniels, a porn star. he has to sit there for six weeks as he wants to be moving towards a general election campaign. >> norah: all of that time trump will be in a new york court room and that yellow part, that's the supreme court.

what happens then? >> the supreme court is going to hear arguments about presidential immunity. we haven't had this kind of high-stakes presidential immunity question since watergate more than 50 years ago. this is going to decide in april or may whether trump will face a federal trial over january 6th and on his handling of classified records. >> norah: john dickerson wants to get in on immunity but i want to point out the rest of the calendar because may becomes important, in green, that's a potential doj classified documents trial and then return to june of course this is when the supreme court ends. the immunity hearing. republican national convention and of course there is still the georgia election trial. >> there's so much going on. and he still has to pay bond for the new york civil fraud trial that's already ended. hundreds of millions of dollars on the line. he's facing the potential end of all of his businesses, maybe even having to sell maximum his properties.

think about trump tower. 40 wall street to put up that money. has to face a financial crisis as he faces a legal crisis and this political challenge of a general election. >> norah: john dickerson, we were talking about april 22nd, the supreme court listenng to arguments in the immunity case. >> i don't know about the law about it. what i do know is that when i was thinking about the control donald trump has exercised all r the republican party. the republican party reveres the founders. in the hot summer of 1776 in philadelphia, the notion the president would have total immunity was against everything they were thinking about so for a current president to say i should have total immunity is completely at all as with the job he's trying to have. it's like somebody running to perform weddings was in favor of wedding night adultery. it's totally antithetical to the job he's asking. it's strange the republican party is backing him but of course they are because he has total control.

>> norah: those who watch the supreme court believe the supreme court will say trump is not immune but that sets up, will there be a trial before the election? that's where we'll be looking. >> donald trump facing this scrutiny before the election, january 6th and classified trials. that could be the issue of the election. >> norah: to caitlin huey-burns, she's there in mar-a-lago. just heard former president trump speak. what did he say? >> hague, nor appeared the ballroom is clearing out. donald trump spoke for about 15 myths but if you are looking for this speech to be a big speech to mark a turning point, that's not what we heard. we heard a list of greatest hits he's echoed during his campaign rallies during the primary focus on biden. interestingly, norah comeau was notable. there is no mention of nikki haley. no mention of reaching out to his rival trying to unify the party. instead he said unity will come

with success. so that is something to look far as we head into this general election matchup. whether there are overtures to some of those voters that we saw spells trouble for donald trump perhaps the general election. >> norah: caitlin huey-burns, thank you. we will take a look at the battleground state it will play a pivotal role in this year's general election. kerendia presents... the abcs of ckd a is for awareness, because knowing that your chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes could progress to dialysis is important. b is for belief that there may be more you can do. just remember that k is for kidneys and kerendia. for adults living with ckd in type 2 diabetes, kerendia is proven to reduce the risk of kidney failure, which can lead to dialysis. kerendia is a once-daily tablet that treats ckd differently than type 2 diabetes medications to help slow the progression of kidney damage and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events,

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>> norah: the biggest primary night of the year. vermont, looks like nikki haley squeaking ahead of donald trump in that state. let's take a look at minnesota. there's something interesting happening in the democratic race there. 20% uncommitted against joe biden, a protest vote in terms of his position on the israel-hamas more. let's take a look at the general election. there are sev seven battleground states. robert costa, many of the polls and those seven key battleground state shown donald trump ahead

of joe biden. >> so far trump is the head. a lot is ahead on the horizon politically and legally performr former president trump. arizona, nevada, these are places where immigration, border security front and center and i'm really paying attention to michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. the heart of the industrial midwest. it was a battleground in '16, '20, again an '24. >> that's where the president is going ahead of the state of the union. philly, atlanta. you can run up the score there, you can win those states. >> norah: it's been a dominant night for both the current and former president. former president trump has won 11 states tonight. president joe biden has won every state that has close to so far tonight. these are the result is we know them. and as you can see, neither donald trump nor nikki haley can clinch the nomination tonight. the soonest donald trump ten is a week tonight. thanks to all our correspondents and contributors.

our coverage will continue on cbs news streaming and your late local news and don't forget we'll see you thursday for our receipt of the union coverage. i'm norah o'donnell in washington. good night.

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