During this “Super Tuesday”, Joe Biden and Donald Trump dominated the primary elections of the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively. These results, which were in line with previous expectations, did not offer major surprises. However, the Republican Party’s Nikki Haley scored a victory in Vermont, and Jason Palmer emerged unexpectedly in American Samoa, breaking the Democratic president’s winning streak.
There is no mystery. Neither the Republican, 77 years old, nor the Democrat, 81, have anyone to overshadow them in the primaries, which designate the candidates of both parties for the comedians.
The former conservative president has been declared the winner in 11 states of the 15 in dispute. These are Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Colorado, Minnesota and Texas, one of the most populated in the country, according to US media projections.
«It has been an incredible, incredible night and day. “It has been an incredible period in the history of our country,” he said before his followers, gathered at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida.
“Thank you – MAGA!” he wrote earlier on his Truth Social platform, using the acronym for the Trump slogan “Make America Great Again” and listing the states where he has won.
Joe Biden without major rivals
On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden is a candidate for re-election. He has no serious rivals.
The candidacies of two Democrats, Congressman Dean Phillips and self-help author Marianne Williamson, have never sparked enthusiasm despite the candidates’ recurring criticism of the president’s age or his support for Israel.
This Tuesday night he already won in the first 11 states at stake, in addition to Iowa, which held a vote by mail in recent weeks.
Joe Biden warned in a statement released by his campaign team that his possible rival Donald Trump “is determined to destroy our democracy, tear away fundamental freedoms like women’s ability to make their own decisions about health care, and approve another round of miles of millions of dollars in tax cuts for the rich, and will do or say anything to achieve power.”
Unexpected setback for Biden
The island of American Samoa, a small territory in the South Pacific incorporated into the United States, handed US President Joe Biden his only defeat in the Democratic primaries on Tuesday.
The president lost there to businessman Jason Palmer, who according to media projections won 56% of the votes (51), compared to 44% for Biden (40 ballots).
“I found out I had won because my phone started ringing off the hook with friends and campaign members messaging me,” Palmer said in an interview.
Palmer, 52, said he had never visited the territory before Super Tuesday.
“I’ve been campaigning remotely, participating in community meetings on Zoom, talking to people, listening to them about their concerns and what matters to them,” he said.
The result will hardly hinder Biden’s march toward his party’s nomination. Only six delegates were up for grabs in this US territory, a small collection of islands in the South Pacific with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants. Palmer and Biden each won three delegates.
A day before the assembly, Palmer posted on
Palmer is a Baltimore resident and has worked for various companies and nonprofit organizations, often on issues related to technology and education. She maintained that voters want “someone who represents the 21st century more than Joe Biden” as president.
According to campaign finance records, Palmer has loaned more than $500,000 of his own money to his campaign.
“You can’t take the money with you when you die,” he said. “But you can change the world while you’re here.”
It is not the first time that American Samoa has produced surprising results in a primary. During the 2020 Democratic race, he delivered his only victory to billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City.
The Democrats held primaries in fifteen states, a figure that distributes a total of 1,420 delegates, of the 1,968 that the future candidate will need to guarantee his nomination to the White House at the Democratic convention next August in Chicago.
In the rest of the states for which this Super Tuesday already offered results, the current president obtained incontestable victories, including in Texas, which grants 244 delegates and was, together with California (424), the largest of the night.
Palmer, 52 years old, compared to Biden’s 81, assured this Tuesday that he offers a “fresh perspective aligned with the current desires and struggles” of citizens in the face of the presidential elections, and urged that he be voted to “rebuild.” together the American dream.”
Nikki Haley had only one victory in Vermont
The only contender in the Republican race for the White House of former President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, chose to remain silent during the night of Super Tuesday, where fifteen states held their primaries and only achieved victory in Vermont.
So far, with only the results of Alaska and Utah to be known, the former governor of South Carolina and former US representative to the UN certified her failure in the attempt to run for president, achieving only one victory in Vermont with a narrow margin of 50.1% to Trump’s 45.9%, with 95% counted.
This victory adds to his previous success in the Washington DC primaries, although of lesser relevance.
In the Super Tuesday primaries, Trump won overwhelming victories in states such as Texas, Massachusetts, Colorado, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maine, Arkansas and Minnesota, with percentages above 60%. He also won in California, although with preliminary results.
According to an ABC News count, Haley, with her two victories and the proportional share of delegates in some states, would have achieved 62 delegates of the 1,215 necessary for the nomination. In contrast, Trump would already accumulate more than 900 delegates and is close to mathematically securing the nomination on March 12, when four states hold primaries with 161 delegates at stake.
Trump celebrated his victories in a private meeting at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, without mentioning Haley in his speech, following the trend of his recent public appearances.
On the other hand, Haley has not scheduled any public events for the coming days, marking a change from her previously active campaign schedule. Her only statement came from her spokesperson, Olivia Pérez-Cubas, who expressed gratitude for the support received, including the historic victory in Vermont, and noted the existence of a Republican sector with serious concerns about Trump.
“We are honored today to have received the support of millions of Americans across the country, including in Vermont, where Nikki became the first Republican woman to win two presidential primaries,” he said in a news release.
Today, he added, “there is still a large bloc of Republican voters who express deep concerns about Donald Trump” and that “is not the unity” the Republican Party needs.
The last communication directly from Haley is an email sent this Tuesday half an hour before the polls closed in the first states, in which she asked for a last effort to “right” the ship and “save” the country.
“If you want to leave the drama and chaos of the past behind… I need your support right now,” the politician noted.
It is not clear, therefore, if he will abandon after this Super Tuesday and leave the way clear for an unstoppable Trump who already seems, inevitably, that he will be the Republican candidate who will face the president, Joe Biden, in the elections on November 5 .
Moderate Republicans have had some success at the state level in Vermont, which has not supported a Republican in a general election since Ronald Regan’s re-election in 1988. US President Joe Biden received more than 65 percent of the vote in this state during the presidential elections against Trump.
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