Donald Trump will not confirm the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday.
But when Republican primaries and caucuses are held in 15 states on what is known as Super Tuesday, the former president is likely to win the majority of the 854 Republican delegates, making Mr. This is expected to bring him closer to winning the party’s presidential nomination. The last remaining rival – Nikki Haley.
“This is a big deal and this is the most important primary day of the year,” Trump told supporters in a video posted to social media ahead of Super Tuesday.
Mr. Trump won all but one of the first nine races on the Republican nomination calendar, including the North Dakota Republican presidential caucus on the eve of Super Tuesday.
Trump heads into Super Tuesday in great shape
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) (AP Photo/Steve Herber)
Another strong showing for the former president in Tuesday’s cross-coastal primaries and caucuses, from his primary battle with Ms. Haley to his general election rematch with President Biden, whom he defeated Mr. Trump four years ago. It will help him in his mission to completely change direction. White House.
“If all the conservatives, Republicans, and Trump supporters in these states come to Super Tuesday, this primary will be almost over,” Trump said. “Then Republicans will be able to focus all their energy, time and resources on defeating crooked Joe Biden.”
How the 2024 Republican presidential primary will play out
Among the states holding nominating contests on Super Tuesday are California and Texas, which have the most delegates. Primaries will also be held in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Two states, Alaska and Utah, are holding caucuses.
Polling in some of those states is scant, but the former president holds a commanding lead over Haley, a former two-term governor of South Carolina and later ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration. It is shown that there is.
Nikki Haley, former Ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina, and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)
Some states (such as California, which is contesting 169 delegates) have adopted winner-take-all rules to varying degrees, which should give Trump even more delegates.
The eight states holding primaries on March 12th and 19th include larger states such as Georgia, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, and Mr. Trump has until the middle of this month to win the delegates he needs to win the nomination. The number is expected to reach 1,215 people.
In a memo last month, the Trump campaign predicted that even under the most favorable model for Haley, she would have the nomination confirmed by March 19.
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Trump has dominated the Republican nomination race for almost a year, culminating last summer with more than a dozen challengers running against the former president. He helped boost Trump’s support among Republican voters, making history in four different criminal cases last year, including indictments in two cases seeking to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss. The following charges were filed against the defendant.
The former president started his nominating calendar with double-digit wins in the Iowa caucuses and primaries in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Michigan. He also won landslide victories in the Republican caucuses in Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Mr. Trump entered Super Tuesday with plenty of momentum after securing the 39 delegates he expected to win at the Republican convention in Michigan on Saturday.
Hours later, the former president won the Missouri caucuses, and Saturday night closed with a victory in the Idaho caucuses.
“We’re rocketing toward winning the Republican nomination,” President Trump said at a rally in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday night, touting his victories at the ballot box in Michigan, Missouri and Idaho. ” was advertised.
Trump won North Dakota on Monday night, giving him more than 200 delegates over Haley heading into Super Tuesday.
“Republican voters delivered resounding victories for President Trump in every primary, and this campaign is over,” Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chan said in a recent statement. “We are now focused on Joe Biden and the general election.”
The former president also won a major legal victory Monday as the Supreme Court unanimously sided with Trump in his legal challenge to Colorado’s attempt to exclude him from the 2024 primary ballot. I got it.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at the District of Columbia Republican presidential primary rally at the Madison Hotel on Friday, March 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
But on Sunday, Haley, who remains in the race for the Republican nomination despite extremely long odds, at least until Super Tuesday, claimed her first victory in the 2024 race.
Haley beat Trump by about 30 points in the Washington, D.C., Republican primary. She won 19 delegates and made history as the first woman to win a Republican presidential primary or caucus.
“Republicans closest to the dysfunction in Washington know that Donald Trump has brought nothing but chaos and division for the past eight years. Start winning again and help our country,” Haley wrote on social media Sunday night. It’s time to move forward!” he posted on social media.
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In recent days, Ms. Haley has secured support from two Republican senators from Super Tuesday states, Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska).
Haley received strong support from independents in the Republican primary and her fundraising remains formidable, but she remained in the race as an option for voters dissatisfied with the possibility of a rematch between Biden and Trump.
But while Trump is scheduled to comment Tuesday night from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, Haley will be attending public events scheduled for Super Tuesday night and election night rallies. There are no plans for this, and he remains silent about his future plans.
“We’re going to continue as long as we’re competitive,” Haley reiterated in an interview with Fox News’ Bill Melgin on Saturday, but she didn’t specifically define what competitive meant. .
President Joe Biden gestures to the audience after speaking at a campaign event in North Las Vegas, Nevada, Sunday, February 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarborough)
American Samoa, a U.S. territory, will also hold a nominating contest on Tuesday.
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With the exception of Alaska, all states that hold Republican primaries and caucuses on Tuesday also hold Democratic primaries and caucuses. The Iowa Democratic Party is scheduled to announce the results of its mail-in voting caucuses, which it has been holding since mid-January.
The president faces a nominal challenge from Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and best-selling author and spiritual advisor Marianne Williamson, but is likely to run wild in the Democratic race.
Biden is expected to win a majority of the 1,420 Democratic delegates he is expected to win on Tuesday, moving him much closer to the 1,968 he needs to win the nomination.
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