Trump wins Super Tuesday and will face Biden in the November presidential elections USA Elections

The predictions have been fulfilled. As the polls predicted, Super Tuesday has been a triumphant outing for Donald Trump. The former president has not yet mathematically clinched the virtual nomination, but he has delivered a definite jolt of authority. Trump is trailing all Republican rivals who have dared to challenge him. Many people withdrew their names even before the primaries started. Investor Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faced defeat after failing in the first round. caucus From Iowa. Nikki Haley remains in the fight, but Trump ousted her this Tuesday. Now the moment of truth has come, the final battle for the White House. Like 2020, he will once again face Joe Biden, who also won Democratic Super Tuesday in the absence of true rivals. Presidential elections will be held 245 days from now on November 5.

Trump emerged to claim victory at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, where he described Biden as the worst president in history (a designation that historians actually give him). “In some ways we are a third world country, we have a third world country on our borders,” he said. Alone on the stage and with fifteen flags of the United States behind him, he gave a somewhat disjointed speech, including topics such as the border, inflation, crime, “Chinavirus”,

Trump has avoided quoting Nikki Haley, though he has called for party unity. He, the most divisive figure in American politics in decades, has complained that the country is too divided. In his second common phrase, he said, “We have to win the elections, because if we lose the elections we will have no country.” He ended his nearly 20-minute speech with his motto, Make America Great Again: “We will make our country greater than ever before in history.”

For its part, the Biden campaign has issued a statement on behalf of the president celebrating his victory and attacking Trump. He asked, “Will we keep moving forward or will we let Donald Trump drag us backwards, towards the chaos, division and darkness that defined his mandate?”

Trump won California, Texas and North Carolina, the Super Tuesday states that contribute the most delegates. In fact, he has already won 12 of the 13 states that have been probed in advance and won them clearly. With significantly improved testing, it particularly affected states like Alabama (84%), Oklahoma (82%), Texas (78%), Tennessee (77%), Arkansas (76%), North Carolina (75%) and Maine (72%. ) has overtaken. ) and Minnesota (67%). He also got more than 60% of the votes in Colorado, Massachusetts and Virginia. The count is experiencing longer delays in California and Utah and has not yet begun in Alaska.

Nikki Haley has faced opposition only in Vermont, where she won in a very close vote with 50% of the vote. This is a state that votes Democratic in presidential elections and has a moderate Republican governor, making it the most favorable area for Haley. So far, the candidate had only won the testimonial Republican primary in Washington, DC, where only 2,000 members voted. However, Haley clearly lost in New England’s other two states, Massachusetts and Maine.

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Haley did not attend election night, which she spent in her home state, South Carolina. Throwing in the towel before voting had ended in California and Alaska would have been too much. What remains to be seen today is whether he retires or continues to fight an impossible battle. This Tuesday, his campaign released a statement saying that large swathes of Republican voters have deep concerns about the direction of the Republican Party under Donald Trump.

Biden has even less opposition on the Democratic side, with clear victories, most of them getting more than 80% or 90% of the vote. As is often the case with presidents, he has not been challenged by any major rival from the Democratic Party. The rival candidates were marginal: unknown Congressman Dean Phillips and self-help book author Marianne Williamson, who also announced her withdrawal, although she later resumed her campaign.

This has been the least-contested Super Tuesday in history, comparable only to 1996, with the difference being that only seven states voted then. Nothing to do with the fierce battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in 2008, but also the competition between Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in 2016, or pitting Biden against Bernie Sanders in 2020. In fact, no Super Tuesday until now has seen such a tremendous (and so predictable) result.

Millions of citizens voted by mail, through electronic voting screens or even without getting out of the car, as happened in some places in California. Despite the facilities, data indicate that participation has been low, perhaps due to low outcomes.

Election night began with the release of the results of the Iowa Democratic primaries. After four years of chaos and under pressure from Joe Biden, the Democratic Party wiped out caucus And its members had been voting by mail since January 12, but the results were left for this Tuesday. Biden has secured 91% of the votes and taken all 40 delegates. This was the fourth time he competed in Iowa and the first time he won.

Then, as the investigation progressed, states fell in favor of Trump and Biden one after another, spanning the country from east to west, except for Vermont.

small warning signs

Despite overwhelming dominance, there are small warning signs for both candidates. Biden has won between 80% and more than 90% of the vote in most states, but in Minnesota the Michigan phenomenon of votes for “uncommitted” delegates has emerged again, a type of empty protest vote, which reached about 15%. Is. This includes 9% turnout for local candidate Dean Phillips, who is supporting Biden. Only There it has achieved 72 percent. These votes were also 9% in Massachusetts and 7% in Colorado. Biden suffered a symbolic defeat in the territory of American Samoa, where businessman Jason Palmer won by 51 votes to 40. American Samoa does not vote in the November presidential elections, but still sends six delegates to the Democratic convention.

On Trump’s side, although his lead is overwhelming, the question is how many of the voters who voted for Nikki Haley will support him come November 5. Former presidents appear weaker in more liberal counties with higher levels of education. The specter that is haunting Republicans, and about which Haley has repeatedly warned, is that when push comes to shove, Trump could once again scare off independent and liberal voters, as he did in 2018, 2020 and It happened in 2022. In many states, Nikki Haley has overtaken 25%. In addition to 50% in Vermont, the candidate has some support in Massachusetts (36%), Virginia (35%), Colorado (33%) and Minnesota (30%).

The allocation of delegates is slow due to the different allocation rules in each state, which sometimes requires waiting for scrutiny to proceed. Still, both Biden and Trump have entered that segment and are getting closer to the nomination threshold. Trump, with 161 delegates, will have a chance when Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington state vote on March 12. Since the Democratic calendar lags somewhat behind the Republican one, Biden will still have to wait another week, until March 19 (when Arizona, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio vote), even if he continues to win all the states.

In the Republican case, 874 of the 2,429 delegates to the convention have been elected. Trump needs 1,215. On the Democratic Party side, 1,420 of the 1,968 required delegates have been appointed.

The race is decided, but half the states still have to vote. The remaining primaries will be practically irrelevant.

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