Democrats and Republicans are looking to Michigan Tuesday and the next big prize in the presidential primary season.
The latest polls show front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton with a big lead in the state that holds 59 Republican delegates and 147 Democratic ones.
The RealClear Politics average of polls has Trump at 29 percent support in Michigan with Clinton ahead of Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I-Vt.), by 22.2 points.
Sanders and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz both won two states in Saturday's presidential primaries and caucuses, with front-runners Trump and Clinton taking the big prize of Louisiana.
Cruz won caucuses in Kansas and Maine, with Trump winning Kentucky in addition to Louisiana. Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio was third in every race but Maine where he finished fourth behind Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Sanders won Democratic caucuses in Kansas and Nebraska. In Louisiana, Clinton took 35 delegates of the state's total 51 delegates. Ten went to Sanders and the rest are superdelegates.
On Sunday, Sanders won the Maine caucus and Rubio took all the delegates in the Republican primary in Puerto Rico.
Who is voting?
On Tuesday, Republican and Democratic primaries will be held in Michigan and Mississippi with a Republican primary in Idaho and a Republican caucus in Hawaii.
How many delegates up for grabs?
For Republicans:
Michigan -- 59
Mississippi -- 40
Idaho -- 32
Hawaii -- 19
For Democrats:
Michigan -- 147
Mississippi -- 41
Delegate count
Here are the current delegate counts for the candidates for the Republican nomination for president.
Donald Trump – 378
Ted Cruz – 300
Marco Rubio – 151
John Kasich – 37
The number needed to win the Republican nomination is 1,237 – that’s the number of delegates who have to vote for you at the GOP’s national convention in Cleveland in July.
As of Monday, there are 1,585 delegates yet to be allotted.
On the Democratic side, Clinton has 1,130 delegates -- of which 458 are superdelegates. Sanders has 499 delegates, including 22 superdelegates.
What is a superdelegate, and what do they do?
A Democratic candidate needs 2,383 delegates to win the nomination. There are still 3,136 Democratic delegates to be allotted.
What’s coming up?
Tuesday, March 8 – Hawaii Republican caucuses, Idaho Republican primary, Michigan primaries (Republican and Democrat), Mississippi primaries (Republican and Democrat)
Saturday, March 12 – District of Columbia Republican convention, Northern Mariana Islands Democratic caucuses
A second super (small "s") Tuesday is set for March 15 when Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, the Northern Mariana Islands and Ohio will hold primaries and caucuses. After the dust settles on that day, 58 percent of the total number of Republican delegates will have been decided, and half of the Democratic delegates will be accounted for.
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