2024-03-06 00:32:44
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 4 hours ago, Updated 23 minutes ago
The current US President Joe Biden and the former, Donald Trump. SAUL LOEB – TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP
From Maine to California, from Texas to Virginia, from Alaska to Alabama, millions of Americans voted Tuesday to nominate their Democratic and Republican contenders for the November ballot.
Donald Trump won the Republican primaries of the first twelve states on Tuesday, March 5, on “Super Tuesday,” according to American media projections. The former president is given the victory in Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Alabama, Minnesota, Colorado et California. He also won the Texas, one of the most populous states in the country. Donald Trump greeted a “great evening”. “It was a great evening, an incredible day”he said in front of his supporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago residence, in Florida.
Fifteen states are contested during this big election night and the former president definitely hopes to dismiss his last rival, Nikki Haley. There is virtually no suspense in this primary process as the two men are almost going it alone, each in their own party.
Nikki Haley wins Vermont
According to the AP news agency, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who returned to her stronghold of South Carolina, had not planned any public event in the evening following the announcement of the various results of the Super Tuesday, and no meetings are scheduled on the calendar of his official campaign website in the coming days. However, she won the small state of Vermont, in the Northeast, thus depriving Trump of the coveted grand slam. This is his second victory following that of Washington DC last week.
Trump is ‘determined to destroy our democracy’
On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden, 81, is seeking a second term and faces no serious opposition. The candidacies of two Democrats launched in pursuit of him, the elected representative of Minnesota Dean Phillips and the best-selling author Marianne Williamson, have never really aroused enthusiasm, despite recurring criticism of the president’s age or his support for Israel. Unsurprisingly, he already won the first eleven states in play on Tuesday evening, as well as Iowa which had been organizing a postal vote in recent weeks. Only the Samoa Islands, the westernmost territory of the United States, escaped him. The president warned Tuesday evening once morest his rival, who according to him is “determined to destroy our democracy”. “Will we continue to move forward or will we allow Donald Trump to lead us toward the chaos, division, and obscurantism that have defined his tenure?”he asked in a press release.
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