Trump called Super Tuesday a “great night,” as he waxed lyrical about the hours spent waiting for the results.
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In the United States, the results of Super Tuesday have been summarized, the day on which primary elections are held in 15 states in the form of primaries and caucuses. Based on their results, presidential candidates can receive a guaranteed majority of votes from delegates at upcoming party congresses, who, in turn, will have to approve only one candidate from their side.
Super Tuesday 2024 passed without major surprises: Biden won all the states except American Samoa, an unincorporated territory that does not have statehood but is part of the United States. There, the current head of the White House lost to venture capitalist Jason Palmer.
Trump did not manage to completely defeat Nikki Haley: according to preliminary results, he received about 1,000 delegate votes (Haley had 86), but he has not yet reached the desired figure of 1,215 delegates, even taking into account the primaries that took place before the Super Tuesday. in other places.
However, primary elections will be held in several larger states in the next two weeks, and the former president of the United States has every chance of securing the votes necessary for approval of his candidacy as sole candidate at the Republican Convention. become a formality.
Haley has so far been able to achieve victory only in Vermont and the District of Columbia. The former permanent representative of the United States to the UN is not giving up yet. Although she only has one chance to reach the White House: to continue the electoral race as an independent candidate.
Haley still remains in the ranks of the Republican Party and has not withdrawn her candidacy in favor of Trump. Her campaign already issued a statement saying that “there continues to be a large bloc of Republican voters in the United States who express deep concern about Donald Trump.” So the only intrigue on Super Tuesday will be the upcoming election of a single candidate: a complete refusal to fight in the 2024 elections or a change in status from party candidate to independent. Today she is expected to announce her future plans.
Super Tuesday 2024 passed without major surprises: Biden won every state except American Samoa
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Trump called Super Tuesday a “great night,” as he waxed lyrical about the hours spent waiting for the results. Speaking to his followers at his Florida residence, he did not fail to make a gloomy assessment of the situation in the United States, which he called “a third world country because of the situation at the borders and the elections.”
The primary elections will last in the United States until early summer. And in mid-June, the Republican Party will meet in a conference, where a single candidate will be approved. Democrats will do the same, but in mid-August. The US presidential election is scheduled for November 5, after which the Electoral College will vote on December 17. And only on that day will the United States, with its very opaque and very confusing system of indirect presidential elections, know the name of the new head of state. Or they will remain under the rule of the old, in every sense of the word.
As for surprises, there may still be some. Mostly sad. For example, US law does not in any way provide for a mechanism of action in the event of the death of a presidential candidate, if it occurs between the Electoral College vote and the counting of his votes. The rule according to which the vice president takes the place of the deceased head of state does not work here, since the president can be considered elected only after Congress approves the results of the electoral votes.
If there are no such surprises, then according to the results of current polls, Trump will win: so far his rating is twice that of Biden.
