Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton moving closer to win their parties’ nominations with a series of victories in the Super Tuesday elections, the biggest day of the primary campaign. Clinton and Trump each have won seven of 11 state races as they distanced themselves from party rivals and looked ahead to the November presidential election showdown.

U.S. networks projected that Trump has won seven states, with victories stretching into the deep of South and as far north as Massachusetts, adding to a sense of momentum he had built last month by winning three of the first four contests.

Clinton\'s victories in seven states were just as impressive, but in many ways predictable, propelled by African-American voters in southern states like Arkansas, where she and former President Bill Clinton began their political careers.

Trump\'s rivals Ted Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, and Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, emphasized their determination to remain in the race.

Clinton\'s rival Bernie Sanders, a Democratic socialist U.S. senator from Vermont, who has won his home state along with Colorado, Minnesota and Oklahoma, vowed to pursue the battle for the nomination in the 35 states yet to vote. He lost to Clinton in Massachusetts, a fifth state he had hoped to win.

Trump declared that he had expanded the party by drawing in disaffected blue-collar Democrats who like his tough-on-trade rhetoric. \"I am a unifier,\" he said. \"I would love to see the Republican Party and everybody get together and unify and when we unify, there’s nobody that’s going to beat us.\"

Trump has won in Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Georgia. Clinton, the former secretary of state and senator has won Massachusetts, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia.

By Premji