{"id":16514,"date":"2024-03-06T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/trump-biden-sweep-super-tuesday-contests-as-they-move-closer-to-a-presidential-election-rematch\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:46:26","slug":"trump-biden-sweep-super-tuesday-contests-as-they-move-closer-to-a-presidential-election-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/trump-biden-sweep-super-tuesday-contests-as-they-move-closer-to-a-presidential-election-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Biden, sweep Super Tuesday contests as they move closer to a presidential election rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former President Donald Trump and President Biden are a giant step closer on Wednesday morning to a 2024 general election rematch, after the Republican and Democratic Party frontrunners ran the table on Super Tuesday as 16 states from coast to coast held presidential nominating contests.<\/p>\n

\u2018They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one,\u2019 Trump said in a primary night victory speech in front of a large group of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. \u2018This has been a day that we\u2019ve been waiting for.\u2019<\/p>\n

And looking ahead to his all-but-certain general election battle with Biden, Trump highlighted that \u2018November 5th is going to go down as the single most important day in the history of our country.\u2019<\/p>\n

Biden, in a statement on the Super Tuesday results, said \u2018today, millions of voters across the country made their voices heard\u2014showing that they are ready to fight back against Donald Trump\u2019s extreme plan to take us backwards.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Every generation of Americans will face a moment when it has to defend democracy. This is our fight,\u2019 he emphasized.<\/p>\n

Longtime Republican strategist David Kochel, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, told Fox News as the Super Tuesday votes were being tabulated that \u2018it\u2019s pretty clear both parties are ready to get to the general election.\u2019<\/p>\n

While Trump didn\u2019t clinch the 2024 Republican nomination on Tuesday, the former president was on course to capture the vast majority of the 854 Republican delegates up for grabs, moving him significantly closer to locking up the nomination over his last remaining rival \u2013 former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n

And while the former president didn\u2019t mention Haley in his speech, pointing to his primary victories over his rival, he touted that \u2018there\u2019s never been anything so conclusive.\u2019<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s convincing victories in 14 of the 15 states holding GOP nominating contests \u2013 Haley narrowly edged the former president in Vermont \u2013 are also turning up the volume on calls by fellow Republicans for Haley to end her White House bid.<\/p>\n

\u2018I do think it is time for her to step aside and let the party rally fully around Donald Trump so that he can take Joe Biden on and beat him in November,\u2019 Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders \u2013 a former Trump White House press secretary who has endorsed the former president \u2013 said in an interview on Fox News \u2018America Reports\u2019 Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Haley didn\u2019t sound like she was dropping out during a \u2018Fox and Friends.\u2019 interview on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u2018As much as everybody wants to go and push me out, I\u2019m not ready to get out yet. I\u2019m still sitting there fighting for the people that want a voice,\u2019 Haley spotlighted.<\/p>\n

Her campaign said that Haley watched primary night returns with staff as they huddled in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. The candidate didn\u2019t deliver any speech or release a statement.<\/p>\n

Haley, who had said she would remain in the race at least through Super Tuesday, has remained mum on any plans going forward.<\/p>\n

But in a statement Tuesday night, the Haley campaign said \u2018we\u2019re honored to have received the support of millions of Americans across the country today, including in Vermont where Nikki became the first Republican woman to win two presidential primary contests.\u2019<\/p>\n

And pointing a bunch of Super Tuesday states where Haley captured anywhere from a quarter to a third of the vote in the GOP contests, the campaign argued that \u2018today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters\u2019 concerns will make the Republican Party and America better.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Kochel, who remains neutral in the nomination battle, called the Super Tuesday results \u2018a pretty dominant night for Trump.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said \u2018this thing is getting pretty close to being wrapped up\u2019 and that \u2018it\u2019s decision time\u2019 for Haley.<\/p>\n

With more large states like Georgia, Florida, Illinois and Ohio among the eight holding primaries on March 12 and 19, Trump is expected to reach the 1,215 delegates needed to clinch the nomination by the middle of this month.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s campaign predicted in a memo last month that even under the most favorable modeling for Haley, the former president would clinch the nomination by March 19.<\/p>\n

Fox News contributor Karl Rove, the veteran GOP strategist and political mastermind behind former President George W. Bush\u2019s two presidential election victories, emphasized that it was \u2018a strong night for Donald Trump.\u2019<\/p>\n

But pointing to the support Haley was able to garner, Rove said \u2018the high command at Team Trump should be concerned about unifying the Republican Party\u2026 there\u2019s still some work to be done.\u2019<\/p>\n

And Kochel noted that the Trump and Biden campaigns \u2018are going to be fighting over these Nikki Haley voters.\u2019<\/p>\n

Biden, who faces nominal challenges from Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and best-selling author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson, easily romped in the Democrat contests.<\/p>\n

The president was on course to win nearly all the 1,420 Democratic delegates up for grabs on Tuesday and move much closer to the 1,968 needed to lock up renomination.<\/p>\n

But Biden did suffer a setback, as the Fox News Decision Desk projected he would lose the Democratic caucus in American Samoa to extreme long-shot candidate and entrepreneur Jason Palmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Palmer was expected to win 4 delegates, to the president\u2019s two on the Pacific Ocean island territory. It was Biden\u2019s first defeat in the 2024 Democratic nominating calendar.<\/p>\n

More troubling for Biden was the continued discontent at the ballot box over his support for Israel in its war with Hamas.<\/p>\n

A week after 13% of Democratic primary voters in Michigan cast ballots for \u2018uncommitted\u2019 in protest of the president\u2019s backing of Israel, nearly 20% voted \u2018uncommitted\u2019 in Minnesota\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Remy Numa contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

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