COLORADO, USA — Joe Biden and Donald Trump have won Colorado's presidential primaries, the Associated Press projects.
Polls closed at 7 p.m. in Colorado's Super Tuesday primary. The AP called the races shortly after the first results came in.
Colorado was one of 16 states and one territory to hold a Super Tuesday primary in 2024.
Colorado's primary election for other offices, including the state's eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, will be held in June. The 2024 general election is Nov. 5.
Here are the latest election results for Colorado's presidential primary. Data is provided by The Associated Press.
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Super Tuesday is not a winner-takes-all night. For instance, Colorado Republicans have 37 delegates to send to the national convention where the nominee is picked. If a candidate gets 20% or more of the vote, they get a certain number of delegates.
Statewide, both Trump and Haley have more than 20% of the vote. While Trump, with a higher percentage, will earn more delegates, he doesn't get everything Colorado has to give.
On the Democratic side, Biden will get everything Democrats have to give. That means all 87 Democratic delegates for Colorado will go to Biden. On the Democratic side, a candidate needs 15% of the vote to get a delegate.
Delegates are also awarded based on results by congressional district. In districts where Haley leads Trump, she will earn more delegates from that district, and vice-versa.
As of 10 p.m. MT, and out of the 16 states and one territory participating in this year's Super Tuesday, AP projects Haley has won one state - Vermont.
Trump ballot decision
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the former president over the Capitol riot.
The justices ruled that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. That power resides with Congress, the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.
The outcome ended efforts in Colorado, Illinois, Maine and elsewhere to kick Trump off the ballot because of his attempts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to Joe Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Trump’s case was the first at the Supreme Court dealing with a provision of the 14th Amendment that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.
Colorado’s Supreme Court, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, had decided that the provision, Section 3, could be applied to Trump, who that court found incited the Capitol attack. No court before had applied Section 3 to a presidential candidate.
National outlook
With contests in 16 states and American Samoa, the Super Tuesday primaries are the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election.
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Both Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican front-runner Donald Trump hope to amass a string of lopsided victories that will help them move beyond the primaries and focus on their expected general election rematch. On the other hand, Nikki Haley faces a tough slate of contests mostly in the types of reliably Republican-voting states where she has struggled to win support or in states where party rules heavily favor the former president.
Super Tuesday has the largest delegate haul of any day in the primary calendar, representing more than one-third of the total delegates available in each party's nomination process and more than 70% of the delegates needed to mathematically clinch either party’s nomination.
Neither Trump nor Biden will be able to claim the title of “presumptive nominee” on Super Tuesday. The earliest that could happen is March 12 for Trump and March 19 for Biden.
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