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Biden and Trump dominate Super Tuesday races, Haley wins in Vermont
Voters across the US headed to the polls on Tuesday with President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump moving closer to winning their parties’ nominations during the biggest day of the primary campaign. Read our blog to see how the state-by-state results came in.
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US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have all but cemented a November rematch after each winning more than a dozen states on Super Tuesday.
US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have all but cemented a November rematch after each winning more than a dozen states on Super Tuesday. © AP, Reuters
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The Super Tuesday primaries are the largest voting day of the year outside of the November general election. Elections are held in 15 states and one territory – from Alaska and California to Vermont and Virginia. Hundreds of delegates are at stake in the primaries, the biggest haul for either party on any single day.
As expected, longtime frontrunner for the Republican nomination Donald Trump wiped the floor with his sole remaining opponent Nikki Haley, winning 12 of the first 13 states called, including the key swing state of North Carolina. The former president will have to wait until March 12 or 19 to mathematically guarantee that he is the Republican standard-bearer in November.
Donald Trump’s sole remaining opponent for the Republican nomination Nikki Haley won the primary in the liberal state of Vermont, blocking Donald Trump from a clean sweep of victories. Haley had also won the capital Washington DC during the weekend, but is far behind Trump and is facing calls to drop out of the race.
On the Democrats’ side, President Joe Biden swept to victory in statewide nominating contests across the country. The only contest Biden lost Tuesday was the Democratic caucus in American Samoa, a tiny US territory in the South Pacific Ocean. Biden was defeated by previously unknown candidate Jason Palmer, 51 votes to 40.
While much of the focus was on the presidential race, there were also important down-ballot contests. The governor’s race took shape in North Carolina, where Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will face off in a state that both parties are fiercely contesting ahead of November. In California, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey, a former Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player, advanced to the general election race to fill the Senate seat long held by Dianne Feinstein.
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Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential caucuses in Utah
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Super Tuesday ‘all according to plan’ for Biden, Trump, FRANCE 24’s Philip Turle says
This Super Tuesday ran all “according to plan”, FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor Philip Turle says.
“This is no surprise. It looks like both men are heading for their party nominations later on this year, the only hiccup there coming from Nikki Haley.”
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Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential caucuses in Alaska
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‘An amazing night for Trump but definitely not a surprising Super Tuesday’, FRANCE 24’s Fraser Jackson reports
FRANCE 24’s Washington correspondent Fraser Jackson sums up the Super Tuesday’s details, as President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, romped coast-to-coast on Super Tuesday, all but cementing a November rematch and increasing pressure on the former president’s last major rival, Nikki Haley, to leave the Republican race.
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Both parties head to primary runoffs in Alabama’s redrawn US House district
Both Republican and Democratic top finishers in Alabama will advance to a runoff after no candidate managed to gather more than 50% of the primary vote during Tuesday’s primary.
The top two finishers in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Alabama’s redrawn 2nd Congressional District were Shomari Figures and Anthony Daniels. They will both advance to a runoff after no candidate captured more than 50% of the primary vote. Daniels is the minority leader in the Alabama House of Representatives. Figures served as deputy chief of staff to US Attorney General Merrick Garland. They will meet again in an April 16 runoff.
The winner will face the Republican nominee in November.
On the Republican side, former state Sen. Dick Brewbaker and attorney Caroleene Dobson have advanced to their own primary runoff.
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Biden loses caucus in tiny American Samoa
The only contest Biden lost Tuesday was the Democratic caucus in American Samoa, a tiny US territory in the South Pacific Ocean. Biden was defeated by previously unknown candidate Jason Palmer, 51 votes to 40.
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Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in California.
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Joe Biden wins the Democratic presidential primary in California.
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No statements so far from Nikki Haley
Republican Nikki Haley did not make any public statements as officials counted ballots coast to coast late into the night.
Privately, Haley’s team expected Republican rival Donald Trump to win almost every one of the so-called “Super Tuesday” contests despite their best efforts to stop him.
Haley logged her only victory so far in Vermont. She spent the night huddled with staff watching returns near her South Carolina home.
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Nikki Haley gets suprise win in Vermont, blocks Trump Super Tuesday sweep
Republican longshot candidate Nikki Haley won the party’s primary election in Vermont on Super Tuesday, blocking Donald Trump from a clean sweep of victories.
Haley also won the capital Washington at the weekend, but is far behind Trump and is facing calls to drop out of the race to take on Democrat Joe Biden in November’s presidential election.
8 hours ago
Biden says Trump ‘determined to destroy’ US democracy
Joe Biden warned that Donald Trump was “determined to destroy” US democracy, as both the Democratic president and his Republican rival scored big wins in the Super Tuesday primaries and head toward a rematch.
Trump “is determined to destroy our democracy, rip away fundamental freedoms like the ability for women to make their own health care decisions, and pass another round of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy — and he’ll do or say anything to put himself in power,” Biden said in a statement released by his campaign.
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Trump celebrates ‘amazing night’
Donald Trump celebrated overwhelming victories in Republican primary elections on Tuesday, describing the results as “an amazing night” as he closes in on becoming the party’s nominee.
“They call it ‘Super Tuesday’ for a reason,” Trump told the crowd gathered at his Florida estate. “This is a big one. They tell me, the pundits and otherwise, that there has never been one like this, never been anything so conclusive.”
Trump offered little in the way of prescriptions during his 20-minute speech and instead ticked through moments in his administration, several of them more than five years ago.
“We’re going to make America great again, greater than ever before,” he said.
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Joe Biden wins the Democratic presidential primary in Utah.
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Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in Minnesota.
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Joe Biden wins the Democratic presidential primary in Minnesota.
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Trump wins first eight primary elections
Donald Trump won the first eight primary elections, including Texas, called by US networks as results came in from the 15 “Super Tuesday” states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The former president, who is bidding for a sensational White House comeback after being unseated by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, could claim a clean sweep of states Tuesday on the way to the Republican Party nomination.
Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia were all called for Trump, who expressed thanks on his Truth Social site as counts continued in the other Super Tuesday states across the country.
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Trump affirms support for Israel in Gaza war
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump expressed his support for Israel’s war in Gaza Tuesday, in his most explicit comments yet on the fighting, as international pressure grows on the United States to rein in its ally.
“Yes,” Trump responded, when asked during an interview on Fox News if he was “in Israel’s camp.”
The interviewer then asked if the former president was “on board” with the way Israel was executing its offensive in Gaza.
“You’ve got to finish the problem,” Trump responded.
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North Carolina’s 14th District flips from Democrats to Republicans after voting map redraw
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore won the Republican nomination for Congress in the state’s 14th District.
The 14th is one of three congressional districts expected to flip from Democrats to Republicans in the November election after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly redrew voting maps fashioned by judges for the 2022 elections.
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Joe Biden wins the Democratic presidential primary in Colorado.
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Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in Colorado.
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(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters, AP)
