Super Tuesday highlights: Trump, Biden bring in major primary wins as Haley faces a tough delegate outlook

Rep. Barry Moore has defeated Rep. Jerry Carl in a rare incumbent-vs.-incumbent Republican primary spurred by a Supreme Court decision forcing Alabama to adopt redrawn congressional districts, NBC News projects.

Moore’s Super Tuesday victory is a win for the House Freedom Caucus — the band of far-right, anti-establishment rabble-rousers that frequently clashes with GOP leadership and whose super PAC backed Moore. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a former Freedom Caucus member, campaigned alongside Moore over the weekend in Alabama.

Carl, a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee and the Republican Study Committee, is more closely aligned with the business wing of the party. 

Read the full story here.

Men and women were divided in their votes and preferences in California's Super Tuesday Senate primary, according to NBC News Exit Poll results.

Adam Schiff, a Democrat, and Steve Garvey, a Republican, prevailed over their competitors to advance to the general election in November. Men were more likely to favor Garvey, while women were more likely to support Schiff, the poll found.

Women were considerably more likely than men to say they would like the winner of the late Dianne Feinstein’s seat to continue her policies. Male voters were more likely to say they would like to the next senator take the state in a more conservative direction.

Democratic Rep. Lizzie Fletcher easily won the primary in Texas's 7th Congressional District, defeating progressive challenger Pervez Agwan, the AP projected. The race in the newly redrawn suburban Houston district was made complicated by the issue of the Israel-Hamas war, with Fletcher as a strong supporter of Israel and Agwan advocating for a cease-fire.

Agwan was sued by a former staffer who alleged sexual misconduct, an allegation he denied, telling the local news outlet Houston Landing that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel political group that endorsed Fletcher, was behind the claim.

In addition, text messages that claimed to be from Fletcher were sent to voters in the district touting AIPAC's endorsement, but her campaign said they were fake and implied Agwan was responsible. Agwan denied the allegation and called Fletcher's suggestions "bigoted and racist" in a statement. The Agwan campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Incumbent Houston District Attorney Kim Ogg lost her Democratic primary to former subordinate Sean Teare. Ogg's election in 2016 made her the first democratic DA elected in Houston in nearly 40 years.

Teare worked as the division supervisor for the Vehicular Crimes Division of the DA's office before leaving in February to run against her. He received the backing of one of Houston's most powerful political figures, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, who was the subject of a criminal investigation by Ogg's office. Hidalgo denies the allegations against her.

Ogg's campaign was the subject of a bombshell report from the Houston Chronicle released last month that found that as many as 4,500 of the defendants in Harris County jail lacked probable cause to be there. Both candidates are progressive on criminal justice issues, backing reducing incarceration and legalizing marijuana.

Former Rep. Mayra Flores has won her Republican primary, setting up a rematch this fall with Democratic Rep. Vincente Gonzalez.

Flores won a low-turnout special election to fill a vacancy in the seat in June 2022. She became the first Mexican-born woman to serve in Congress. In November of that year, she lost the general election in the district by 8 points to Gonzalez, who formerly represented the neighboring 13th District.

Phillips lost his own congressional district, according to unofficial results posted on the Minnesota secretary of state's website.

Phillips, who was first elected to Congress in 2018, won just 14% of the primary vote in the 3rd District, narrowly edging out "uncommitted" for second place behind Biden, who won 70%.

Phillips best performance so far in the Democratic contest came in the unsanctioned New Hampshire primary. He won 20% of the vote but could not win any delegates because the state did not comply with the Democratic National Committee's new primary calendar.

We’ve been asking this question of the campaign and our sources all night. Campaign officials stopped giving updates around 9 p.m. ET. Their only updates before that were that they were “happy warriors” and partying in their campaign headquarters. That party was still going past 10 p.m.

Vibe check? We cannot stress how weird this evening was. It was lonely on the street outside her quiet campaign HQ and a stark contrast with Trump's party.

So what does it all mean? Clearly, there’s reassessing going on behind the scenes. That was always going to be the case given the way this group talked about taking it “step by step” after Super Tuesday. 

But could she still stay in? Yes. Money has never been the problem for Haley, a prolific fundraiser who was sending texts to grassroots donors as late as 6 ET tonight.

Haley has no events scheduled for tomorrow. But at around 11:30 p.m., her event staff members seemed to be wheeling small trolleys and hard cases, which looked like lights, into the campaign headquarters building, indicating they could be setting up for an event.

The forecast in Charleston is rainy tomorrow, which could indicate why this setup would be happening inside.

The campaign has not indicated that there is a coming event.

More than half of the states holding GOP nominating contests tonight aren't de-facto winner-take-all; instead, delegates are awarded either proportionally or based on the results in individual congressional districts.

But certain thresholds need to be met in each of those states to dole out delegates to more than one candidate. That's the danger facing Haley right now: Her low vote share in a handful of Southern states means she's at risk of being virtually shut out even in states that aren't winner-take-all by design.