--- title: Watch Live: Voters Head to the Polls in Key Primary Votes description: Voters head to the polls in five states on Tuesday in another set of pivotal primary contests canonical: https://time.com/4258910/watch-live-video-voters-primary-contests/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-15T13:41:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T16:17:56.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Voters Head to the Polls in Key Primary Contests og:description: There are primaries in five states on Tuesday og:url: https://time.com/4258910/watch-live-video-voters-primary-contests/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Voters Head to the Polls in Key Primary Contests twitter:description: There are primaries in five states on Tuesday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: Republicans React on 'Super Tuesday 2'  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:17 PM UTCPublished: Mar 15, 2016 1:41 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:17 PM UTCPublished: Mar 15, 2016 1:41 PM UTC Voters headed to the polls in five states on Tuesday in a set of key primary contests that will be pivotal in determining whether Republican frontrunner Donald Trump [will be able to clinch the party nomination](http://time.com/4258403/donald-trump-ohio-florida-tuesday/). There are primaries in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina on Tuesday. The Northern Mariana Islands also hold a Republican caucus today. Some party leaders and presidential candidates rallied behind a campaign to stop Trump in recent weeks, but if he succeeds in the winner-take-all states of Florida and Ohio, he will be much closer to amassing the 1,237 delegates required to win the Republican nomination. That would make it nearly impossible for another candidate to beat him to the nomination and would reduce the likelihood of a contested convention. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4258910/watch-live-video-voters-primary-contests/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4258910/watch-live-video-voters-primary-contests/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Republicans React on 'Super Tuesday 2'","datePublished":"2016-03-15T13:41:53.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T16:17:56.000Z","description":"There are primaries in five states on Tuesday","url":"https://time.com/4258910/watch-live-video-voters-primary-contests/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4258910/watch-live-video-voters-primary-contests/","name":"Watch Live: Republicans React on 'Super Tuesday 2'"}}]}] ```