WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on campaign 2016 on Super Tuesday (all times local)
7:30 a.m.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has voted in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont as Super Tuesday kicks off across 11 states.
Sanders tells reporters that if voter turnout is high “we are going to do well. If not, we’re probably going to be struggling.”
Sanders says “this is a campaign that is going to the Philadelphia convention in July.”
He jokes that “Bernie Sanders here in Vermont got at least one vote. I was working on my wife,” Jane. He says, “We’re feeling pretty good.”
7:10 a.m.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is showing weariness with repeated questions about when – and whether – he has disavowed any connection with David Duke, a onetime Ku Klux Klan leader.
Interviewed by phone on ABC’s “Good Morning America” as voters went to the polls early Tuesday, Trump said once again that he had on several occasions disavowed Duke. He told the network at one point that “there’s nobody who’s done so much for equality as I have.”
Trump also said he’s bringing new people – even Democrats – into the Republican Party. He said, “We’re getting people into the party that they’ve never had before” and said he was relishing the thought of taking on Democrat Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Trump said, “I can tell you the one person Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to run against is me.”