Super Tuesday was a super crush for Trump – and Nikki Haley gave up.
As early as next week, the ex-president may have secured the 1,215 delegates required to become the Republican candidate in the autumn US presidential elections.
But trials await in the election campaign in the form of lawsuits and grumpy Haley supporters.
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Bild: Rebecca Blackwell
The mood was high at the vigil at the glitzy Mar-a-Lago resort on Florida’s east coast. When Donald Trump took the podium, he directly attacked Democrat Joe Biden, who is running for re-election.
– He is the worst president in our country’s history, Trump claimed and attacked Biden for the lack of border security and the retreat from Afghanistan.
– We are like a country in the third world, at our borders and when we conduct elections.
Finished on Tuesday?
The setting is not new. Ever since he launched his campaign, Trump has acted as if the candidacy was his and the choice was between him and Biden. Now, with rival Nikki Haley’s recent defection, that’s basically true.
To be named the Republican nominee at the party convention in Wisconsin in July, the support of at least 1,215 delegates is required. They are these who are appointed through the ongoing primary elections. After Super Tuesday, Trump had secured 995. There is a slight chance that he will finish as early as Tuesday, with the primaries in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington. Otherwise, it will most likely take place the following week.
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Until now, Donald Trump has won convincingly in all but two states – despite criminal charges and reservations about the 77-year-old’s relatively advanced age. Thousands of so-called Maga republicans have flocked to the campaign meetings he has held and it is clear that he has a firm grip on the party.
“Permanently” disabled
But not all Republicans love Trump. About 70 percent of Nikki Haley’s voters in the states of California, North Carolina and Virginia say they are unwilling to support the party’s candidate unless it is Haley, according to polling station surveys as the television company ABC did.
The question is whether Trump can and wants to convince them or whether they will stay home or even vote for Biden in the presidential election? The former president has previously warned Haleyan supporters that they are “permanently suspended” from the Maga movement.
Another problem for Trump is the four criminal charges he faces. 53 percent of voters in seven decisive swing states say they cannot imagine voting for Trump if he is convicted of a crime, according to a survey by Bloomberg.
– There is a percentage of Republican voters who think it would be too much if he is convicted of a crime, states Republican strategist Dan Judy for The Hill, adding that these may decide the election.
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Facts: The state of opinion in the USA
Most indications are that the presidential election in the United States on November 5 will be between the sitting president, the Democrat Joe Biden, and the Republican ex-president Donald Trump.
Currently, Trump has a national support of 47.5 percent compared to 45.5 percent for Biden, according to a compilation of current opinion polls.
Trump leads Biden in six of the decisive swing states, places where the Republican and Democratic majorities are tied and where the presidential election is actually decided: Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada.
Biden leads in a swing state, namely Pennsylvania.
Source: Politics site Real Clear Politics