Stage Set For Another Biden, Trump Presidential Contest

The stage is set for another Biden and Trump Presidential contest.

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the United States President, Joe Biden, and former President, President, Donald Trump are set for a rematch for November’s general election after both candidates won at Super Tuesday.

This Nigeria news platform recalls that Nikki Haley dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential race after the Super Tuesday primaries where she lost fourteen states to Donald Trump and won just one.

 

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The former South Carolina governor announced she was ending her campaign in a speech in Charleston after spending the biggest day of the primaries hidden from the public eye.

In the emotional remarks she paid tribute to her mother, said the world is ‘on fire’ because of America’s ‘retreat’, and then confirmed she wouldn’t endorse Trump.

 

She then wished him ‘luck’ and said she wasn’t ready to back him by using the Margaret Thatcher quote: ‘Never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind.’

Thatcher in 1997 called the line the ‘motto of her life,’ adding that ‘if necessary get the crowd to follow you.’

‘It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him,’ Haley said.

 

She referred to the large swath of her supporters who said on Super Tuesday that they would not vote for Trump in November, according to exit polls.

 

An ABC exit poll found that the majority of Haley voters in North Carolina (78%), Virginia (68%), and California (69%) would not commit to backing whoever the GOP nominee is.

‘And I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away,’ Haley went on.

 

‘In all likelihood, Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America’s president. Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.’

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden won all 15 states easily on Super Tuesday over Democratic rivals, Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and self-help guru Marianne Williamson.

 

The president notched early wins in the Iowa caucuses and then in primaries held in Virginia, North Carolina, Vermont, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Maine, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Utah, and finally, California.

 

His only loss came from Democrats in America Samoa, who instead chose a candidate most Americans have never heard of – Jason Palmer, an entrepreneur who released a talking, AI-powered version of himself, according to a campaign press release.

 

A more serious challenge to Biden has been Democrats choosing to vote ‘uncommitted,’ a protest vote over Biden’s support of Israel while the death toll in Gaza mounts.

There was some support for ‘uncommitted’ in certain Super Tuesday states, with early returns showing around 10 percent of Democrats in Massachusetts voting that way and around 10 percent of North Carolinians too.

 

In Minnesota, Phillips’ home state, just under 18 percent were going with uncommitted. A statement from organizers of the ‘uncommitted’ campaign in the state said they only campaigned for one week and spent just $20,000.

 

Phillips, who launched a challenge in October due to Biden’s advanced age and opinion polls showing him losing to former President Donald Trump, was candid about voters rejecting his bid.

Congratulations to Joe Biden, Uncommitted, Marianne Williamson, and Nikki Haley for demonstrating more appeal to Democratic Party loyalists than me,’ he posted on X Tuesday night.

 

In Minnesota, Phillips was receiving less than 10 percent of the vote with just 4 percent reporting.

Of the Super Tuesday states Biden won, North Carolina has the biggest delegate haul with 116 and has been a state Democrats have wanted back in the fold after former President Donald Trump won it in both 2016 and 2020 and Republican Mitt Romney won it in 2012.

 

Virginia is worth 99 delegates and is a state Biden won by 10 points over Trump in 2020 and a state he needs to keep in his column.

 

Vermont and Massachusetts are solidly blue and worth just 16 and 92 delegates, while Tennessee and Oklahoma are traditionally red and worth 63 and 36 delegates, respectively.

 

And Biden won the support of more than 11,000 Iowa Democrats in unofficial returns posted on the Hawkeye State party’s website Tuesday evening.

 

The president was running way ahead of his two challengers, Phillips and Williamson, who reentered the race last week after dropping out last month due to performing better in Michigan than Phillips.

 

Iowa traditionally held the first contest for both the Democrats and Republicans, but the Democratic National Committee stripped it of that status this year after the fiasco during the 2020 count.

 

South Carolina now has the coveted first-in-the-nation status for Democratic voters.

Former U.S. president, Donald Trump, cemented his position as the Republican Party’s all-but-certain nominee.

Trump said in his victory speech, delivered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida: “It is called `Super Tuesday’ for a reason. This is a big one,’’

 

As the crowd chanted “USA! USA,’’ Trump said voters had delivered him an amazing night.

Trump immediately fired off a Truth Social post saying Haley got ‘TROUNCED last night’ and downplayed her single win in Vermont.

 

“Much of her money came from Radical Left Democrats, as did many of her voters, almost 50%, according to the polls,’ he added.

 

“At this point, I hope she stays in the “race” and fights it out until the end!’ continued Trump, who went on to turn his attention to November in a series of scathing attacks on Biden.

Trump easily defeated his last remaining major challenger, Nikki Haley, in primaries held in a slew of states, including California, Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina.

 

Other states include; Oklahoma, North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, Alabama, and Tennessee, according to unanimous projections by broadcasters based on initial vote counts.

 

Haley was only projected to have won the small north-eastern state of Vermont.

In the primary process, which began in January in Iowa, candidates were awarded delegates with each state they won.

 

One-third of the total delegates available for the Republican nomination were up for grabs on Tuesday. A candidate needed at least 1,215 delegates out of 2,429 to secure their spot on the November ballot.

 

The nomination would then be made official at the Republican Party convention in July. Despite his overwhelming win, Trump couldn’t secure all the delegates he needed on Tuesday.