Years of historic Super Tuesday moments from past primary nights

 

Every election cycle has one fateful Tuesday that makes or breaks a presidential campaign – Super Tuesday.

Since the late 1970s, Super Tuesday has served to lock the nomination of presidential candidates, including former President George H.W. Bush won 16 of the 17 states in the 1989 primary election, as did former President Bill Clinton in 1992.

Super Tuesday typically features primaries in about 10 states on the same night. However, history was made on Super Tuesday in 2008 when 24 states held primaries on the same Tuesday in February.

In the weeks leading up to Super Tuesday in 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was leading the Democrat presidential primary contest, however, then-candidate Joe Biden's campaign made an unexpected comeback. The incumbent president lost primary races in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, but won 10 Super Tuesday states. This growth in his campaign quickly led to his securing the Democratic nomination and ultimately winning the presidency.