AP News Guide: Big Trump, Clinton wins, no shocks

Sanders won Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and home-state Vermont, maintaining a credible challenge to Clinton in the Democratic race but failing to broaden his appeal with minority voters who are crucial to the party in presidential elections.

Trump took Alabama, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas and Vermont, showing geographic breadth in 2016's first truly national contest and cementing a Republican front-runner status he's held for months, first in polls, now in results.

Including superdelegates, Democratic insiders who can choose any candidate, Clinton now has at least 1,005 delegates in the overall AP delegate count, with at least 373 for Sanders.

Trump and his rebel yell against the status quo attracted nearly two-thirds of voters looking to install an outsider in the White House.

For all the endorsements, money and attention rallied behind Rubio as the GOP's only hope to stop Trump, he had yet to win a state before Tuesday and he remains short on time to stage a turnaround.

In six states (Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas), large majorities of Republican primary voters expressed support for temporarily banning all non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S., a Trump proposal, according to early results of exit polls.

Immigration policy, the swollen U.S. debt, the uneven spread of wealth and hard questions about how to approach the Islamic State, terrorism and civil liberties are all in play for voters.

The biggest Super Tuesday state overall was Texas, where Cruz prevailed with his home-state advantage, prime endorsements from the governor down the political chain and a veritable army of some 27,000 volunteers.