WASHINGTON (AP) – Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are all-in for Indiana as they try to stave off the growing aura of inevitability surrounding their opponents. But Donald Trump says his general election race against Hillary Clinton has “sort of already started.” Clinton may not say as much, but she largely agrees. On what could be a pivotal night for Cruz, Trump is strongly favored in the state’s GOP primary. Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in a tighter race on the Democratic side.
What to watch in Indiana’s presidential primary on Tuesday:
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THE TIMELINE
Polls close at 6 p.m. EDT in 80 of Indiana’s 92 counties, and at 7 p.m. EDT in the rest of the state. So the vote count will have been under way for an hour in most of the state by 7 p.m., the earliest that a winner can be declared in either primary. In 2012, half the vote had been reported by 8 p.m., and 95 percent by 10 p.m. Four years earlier, half the votes were counted before 9 p.m. but the state didn’t get to 90 percent until nearly 1 a.m.