2024-03-06 05:20:00
Democratic US President Joe Biden, who is aiming for re-election, won easily in all but one of the states that held primary elections in the US on Tuesday. With a dozen states won out of 15 during the Republican primaries, Donald Trump also sees his nomination almost assured. The two historic rivals would then be in the running once more for the presidential election in November, just like in 2020.
Democratic voters favored Joe Biden, with victories of around 80 to more than 90% of the votes for the outgoing president in 14 of the 15 states called to vote.
Joe Biden faces no serious opposition while the candidacies of two Democrats launched in his pursuit, the elected representative of Minnesota Dean Phillips and the best-selling author Marianne Williamson, have never really aroused enthusiasm.
However, in states that authorize them, blank votes, either not cast in favor of one or another Democratic candidate, have harmed the president who is seeking re-election. This is a trend which highlights in particular the disapproval of a Democratic fringe of the American leader’s position in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Joe Biden only suffered one defeat, in the small territory of American Samoa, to the benefit of businessman Jason Palmer, which should however have no impact on his race for the Democratic nomination.
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“A wonderful evening”
On the other side of the American political spectrum, Republicans have also confirmed their support for billionaire Donald Trump, despite his multiple ongoing legal proceedings.
He hailed Tuesday as “a wonderful evening” following his victory in almost all states during the “Super Tuesday” Republican primaries, in front of his supporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago residence, in Florida. The former president is given the victory in Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Alabama, Minnesota, Colorado, Texas and California, the two most populous states in the country.
Her only rival, and her former ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, however, stole the state of Vermont, where she won her second victory, following convincing Republican voters in the capital, Washington DC, on Sunday.
She remains a pebble in Donald Trump’s shoe, while she has nibbled 10 to 20% of the votes in the states which have so far been won by the American billionaire. She will have to decide whether she persists in remaining on the trail, despite being far behind, or withdraws from the campaign for the Republican nomination.
Donald Trump now has the support of at least 493 voters, compared to 52 for the former governor of South Carolina. It takes 1,215 to win the Grand Old Party nomination.
Donald Trump’s success has not been denied despite the numerous legal cases in which he and members of his family are involved. Several states are waiting, among other things, for the Supreme Court to rule definitively on his eligibility for the November presidential election, in connection with his involvement during the insurrection of January 6, 2021 at the capitol, to then contest the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden.
After this election day, an important milestone in the nomination race, everything indicates that a duel between the two men will be repeated this fall during the American presidential election.
Joe Biden’s reaction
The outgoing president reacted to the Super Tuesday results by pointing out that they left Americans with a clear choice: “Will we move forward or will we let Donald Trump take us back to the chaos, divisions, and darkness that marked his term?“.
“My message to the nation is this: every generation of Americans faces a moment when they must defend democracy…to all Democrats, Republicans and independents who believe in a free and fair America: it is our moment“, he enjoined, in a statement as a precursor to a campaign once morest Donald Trump.
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