Super Tuesday brings Trump and Biden closer to the candidacy

While Democratic President Joe Biden won all 15 states up for grabs, the former Republican president lost only to Nikki Haley in Vermont. The candidacies for the November elections are practically closed: former President Donald Trump won the Republican primaries in 14 of the 15 American states up for grabs on the so-called Super Tuesday (05/03). The latest results released were those from Utah.

Previously, the New York tycoon’s victory in Alaska was known, with 87.6% of the votes, against 12% for the former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

Trump also won in Massachusetts, Texas, California, Colorado, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maine, Arkansas and Minnesota, losing to Haley only in Vermont.

Currently responding to several lawsuits, the former head of state (2017-2021) celebrated the “fantastic night”: “They call it Super Tuesday for a reason,” he commented to the cheering crowd gathered in front of his villa club in March -at-Lake, Florida.

Biden, 15 states, minus American Samoa

On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden won all 15 states on Super Tuesday. The only race he lost was in American Samoa, a small US territory in the South Pacific Ocean, where he was defeated by unknown candidate Jason Palmer, 51 votes to 40.

Super Tuesday is the day when 15 states and American Samoa vote in primaries to choose the Democratic and Republican candidates for the White House. Trump and Biden are the favorites of their respective parties to face each other in the presidential elections in November.

“Tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: Will we move forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us back into the chaos, division and darkness that characterized his presidency?” Biden said after the results were released.

Traditionally, the date represented a turning point in the presidential race, as more than 35 percent of the delegates choosing both parties’ candidates were distributed. This year, however, both candidacies are practically closed: Biden has already secured 1,470 of the 1,968 delegates needed, while Trump has 995 out of 1,215.

Primaries and caucuses

Both primaries and caucuses are indirect elections, in which voters choose delegates who will then choose the party’s candidate for president of the United States.

In primaries, voting takes place using a secret ballot placed in a ballot box. Some states hold closed primaries in which only declared party members can participate. All voters can participate in open primaries, regardless of party affiliation.

Caucuses are meetings organized by political parties, usually in counties or electoral districts. In most of them, participants are divided into groups depending on the candidate they support. Ultimately, the number of voters in each group determines how many delegates each candidate won.

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Source: Terra

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