Biden, Trump projected to win in ‘Super Tuesday’, rematch virtually guaranteed; Haley won’t quit race

Nikki Haley reiterated that she won’t quit the race so easily

iNDICA NEWS BUREAU–

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will win “Super Tuesday” primaries in their respective party’s contests for the 2024 presidential election. Biden, challenged by American author Marianne Williamson and Congressman Dean Phillips, won the Alabama, Massachusetts, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and Vermont Democratic primaries and the party’s caucus in Iowa, according to national media projections.

Trump, meanwhile, is projected to pick up victories in the Republican primary contests in Alabama, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Virginia, beating former South Carolina Governor and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Even after her projected loss in the GOP primary in her home state, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said she will continue running for Republican presidential nominee, CNN reported.

Speaking in South Carolina’s Charleston, Haley said, “I’m a woman of my word,” referring to her earlier remarks about staying in the presidential race until Super Tuesday. She said, “I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”

Projected results continue to roll in on the night of “Super Tuesday”, the biggest day for the primary race of the 2024 US presidential election.

Fifteen states, including two most populous California and Texas, and the US territory of American Samoa, held primary elections on Tuesday. Iowa Democrats released the results of their presidential caucus earlier this day.

Super Tuesday is when the largest number of states hold presidential primaries or caucuses. Registered voters in the states holding presidential nominating contests go to the polls and vote. It gets its name from the fact that there are more delegates up for grabs than on any other day in the primary campaign.

Eleven of the 15 states held GOP primaries that are open to more than just registered Republicans. In 2016, Trump won eight of the states that held nominating contests on Super Tuesday 2024.

As many as 31 delegates were at stake in the primary at Arkansa, which was part of Biden’s big Super Tuesday in 2020, when he secured a win in the state by 18 percentage points and took a big step towards winning the Democratic nomination. There were 92 pledged delegates at stake in Massachusetts on Tuesday.

As many as 116 pledged delegates were at stake in North Carolina, while there were 99 pledged delegates at stake in the contest in the Virginia Democratic primary.

The results of the Democratic primary in various states of the US trickled in as millions of Americans voted on Super Tuesday, one of the most significant days in the US presidential primaries. The result of the contest is expected to solidify both Donald Trump and Joe Biden as their respective party’s nominees for the general election in November.

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