Voters in five states go to the polls on what is dubbed Super Saturday (3/5/16), the next big voting day as candidates hope to scoop up delegates on the road to the Republican and Democratic party nominations.
With the Republican field winnowed down to four candidates -- Donald Trump , Ted Cruz , Marco Rubio and John Kasich -- the remaining contenders will duke it out for wins in Maine, Kansas, Kentucky and Louisiana on Saturday, March 5.
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders , meanwhile, have races in Nebraska, Kansas and Louisiana.
Polls in the Bayou State open at 8 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Maine Republicans will caucus at different times between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m., depending on location. The Kentucky Republican caucuses will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time; the state is divided between the Eastern and Central time zones.
In Kansas, Republicans will caucus between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., while the Democratic caucuses will begin at 4:30 p.m. Four western Kansas counties are in another time zone, meaning they will start an hour earlier.
Nebraska Democrats will caucus at different times beginning between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m.
NJ Advance Media will be providing live coverage of Super Saturday news and results. Keep an eye on our live updates blog below.
LIVE UPDATES: SUPER SATURDAY
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</p><div><b>Mar 5, 2016 5:15 PM EST<br><br>Here&apos;s an update on Marco Rubio&apos;s campaign from the <i>Associated Press</i>: </b><i><br><br>Campaigning in his home state of Florida, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is reminding voters in Jacksonville that they&apos;ve helped him as an underdog candidate before.<br><br>Behind in the delegate count to GOP front-runner Donald Trump, the Florida senator is under pressure to win the state&apos;s March 15 primary. The victor will claim all of the state&apos;s 99 delegates.<br><br>Rubio is a Miami native, and he reminded more than 1,000 supporters in Jacksonville on Saturday that when he ran for the Senate in 2010 &quot;there was one other city that believed in me.&quot;</i></div><div>13 people you probably didn't know endorsed Donald TrumpSports stars and celebrities have thrown their support behind Republican presidential contender Donald Trump.</div><div><h2 id="401e60"><b>IMPORTANT ELECTION NEWS: </b></h2></div><div><h2 id="401e60"><b>This teenager asked Bernie Sanders to be her dad. </b></h2></div><div>yoheres a good video of bernie sanders saying he wouldnt be my dad</div><div>Ted Cruz has won the CPAC straw poll. </div><div>#CPAC2016 Straw Poll Winner: @tedcruz https://t.co/qNIJAJAukQFox News</div><div>Early results out of Maine (very few precincts have reported so far) have Ted Cruz out ahead, per CNN. </div><div>.@wolfblitzer gives an update on the Maine Republican caucuses #SuperSaturday https://t.co/ixbo4KdXye https://t.co/ewFNnzMziKCNN Politics</div><div>A Sanders supporter in Kansas posts on Twitter: </div><div>#KansasCaucus @BernieSanders supporters versus @HillaryClinton in my district. 154 votes for 534 votes for Bernie!! https://t.co/S1AgirojLBOwen McLain</div><div><b>Mar 5, 2016 5 PM EST<br><br></b>Fox News has excerpts of Trump&apos;s remarks in Kansas. </div><div>#DonaldTrump: &quot;We don't have good leadership. We don't have the right people. Everything's politically correct.&quot;
https://t.co/Zh2zkDRzCcFox News</div><div><i>&quot;Our country doesn&apos;t win anymore, we don&apos;t win,&quot; Trump said. &quot;We don&apos;t have good leadership, we don&apos;t have good people. Everything&apos;s politically correct. We have a country that&apos;s lost it&apos;s way. It&apos;s going to change. On our borders, we are going to build a wall, that I can tell you.&quot;</i></div><div><hr></div><div>https://t.co/3AAs1rNwLr https://t.co/1sGa9axtiCColin Campbell</div><div>Was an honor to address #CPAC for the 7th year in a row! Enjoyed meeting so many great conservatives. https://t.co/bDouwyEuyrMarco Rubio</div><div>WICHITA, KS - MARCH 5: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R) poses for a photo at a campaign rally on March 5, 2016 in Wichita, Kansas The Republican party is holding its state wide caucus in several locations. (Photo by J Pat Carter/Getty Images)J Pat Carter</div><div>DETROIT, MI - MARCH 05: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton meets with African American ministers at the Westin Book Cadillac hotel on March 5, 2016 in Detroit, Michigan. Voters in Michigan will go to the polls March 8 for the State's primary. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Scott Olson</div><div>ORLANDO, FL - MARCH 05: Mary Decker (L) and Carlos Maldonado wait for the arrival of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak at the CFE Arena during a campaign stop on the campus of the University of Central Florida on March 5, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Primary voters head to the polls on March 15th in Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Joe Raedle</div><div>ORLANDO, FL - MARCH 05: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the CFE Arena during a campaign stop on the campus of the University of Central Florida on March 5, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Primary voters head to the polls on March 15th in Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Joe Raedle</div><div>CNN has this rundown on what to watch as the polls close. </div><div>2016 election: What to watchThe two could get more distance on Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Republicans have four contests on tap: Caucuses in Kansas, Kentucky and Maine, and a primary in Louisiana. Democrats, meanwhile, also caucus in Nebraska and hold a primary in Louisiana -- plus another caucus in Kansas.</div><div>My report from the Kentucky caucuses https://t.co/ODucMopFDM https://t.co/JH1ZkKwIAudaveweigel</div><div>Ted Cruz has won the Kansas Republican caucus.Decision Desk HQ</div><div><b>4:30 PM EST<br></b><i><br>Projections for winners in battleground states are already trickling in. A reminder that we rely on Associated Press numbers to declare winners. All other projections are just that - projections. </i></div><div><hr></div><div>Donald Trump makes members of his Orlando crowd raise their right hands and swear to vote in the primary. https://t.co/EVenRilJrVJenna Johnson</div><div><b data-timestamp="1457212781853">Mar 5, 2016 4:19 PM EST</b><b><br></b><br>With 12 percent of the precincts reporting in the GOP Kansas Caucus:<br>Ted Cruz - 50 percent<br>Donald Trump - 24.5 percent<br>Marco Rubio - 13.7 percent<br>John Kasich - 9.9 percent</div><div>In Wichita, Kansas, turnout&apos;s been so heavy at the Republican presidential caucuses that some voters waited in lines outside one event center for more than two hours before they got in.<br><br>About 100 protesters congregated outside an earlier rally for GOP front-runner Donald Trump before the caucuses opened, but their numbers had thinned out by late morning to about a dozen. They waved signs saying, &quot;Trump Makes America Hate Again&quot; and &quot;A Bridge Not a Wall.&quot; -- The Associated Press<br></div><div>It's Election Day for KS, LA, and NE! Confirm your polling place here and vote today: https://t.co/LdIBwMPzC4 https://t.co/RyYhlO8D4PHillary Clinton</div><div>Thank you Kansas! Thousands of people inside- and thousands outside who couldn't get into the hall. Really amazing! #CaucusForTrumpDonald J. Trump</div><div>.@tedcruz on @HillaryClinton's legal woes: "Orange is the new Democratic blue." #Hannity https://t.co/oA9SNBZrMXFox News</div><div>Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump seek more wins on Super SaturdayRepublicans are battling for 155 delegates in Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine while Democrats are going to the polls in Kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska with 109 pledged delegates at stake. The new round of voting comes amid an uproar in the Republican Party over the increasing likelihood that Trump will emerge as the GOP nominee.</div>
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.