WASHINGTON.- “Super Tuesday”, the most important day in the United States primaries, is usually a turning point in the race for the White House. No other day shows the country’s political mood more clearly, and no other day has so much weight in the election of candidates. In 2016, Donald Trump He got a boost towards his presidential candidacy, and everything indicates that the same will happen this year. In 2020, Joe Biden He managed to get his campaign back on track after a weak start, and emerged as the Democratic standard-bearer.
This year, “Super Tuesday” was shaping up to be a success, without any big surprisesthe day that was going to end up confirming the duel that the United States has been experiencing for months: the rematch between Biden and Trump for the general elections on November 5. And the official results confirmed that forecast, paving the way for a repeat of the 2020 contest.
Trump swept again and was in front in 14 of the 15 states that voted this Tuesday: Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma, Maine, Tennessee, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Alaska, California and Utah, and barely gave up Vermont to its only standing rival, Nikki Haley, according to official data. Biden easily won the same states, in addition to Iowa, and only lost in the Samoa caucus to a local candidate, a surprising, although politically irrelevant, setback.
With those results in hand, Biden and Trump attacked each other in their victory messages, kicking off the dispute that will culminate in the general elections on November 5, which will have the same names as four years ago.
“We are going to recover our country, we are going to do it well, we are going to have the best economy in the history of our country, we are going to be the energy center of the world”Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in a message in which he deployed his usual attacks on Biden without mentioning Haley.
“We are going to win this election because we have no choice. If we lose the election, we will not have a country,” he said before closing his speech.
Biden issued a press release in which he stated that the United States faces a “clear choice,” and called on Democrats, Republicans and independents to unite to defeat Trump in defense of democracy.
“Tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: Will we continue to move forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backward toward the chaos, division and darkness that defined his presidency?” Biden asked.
“My message to the country is this: Every generation of Americans will face a moment when they will have to defend democracy. Defend our personal freedom. Defend the right to vote and our civil rights. To all Democrats, Republicans, and independents who believe in a free and fair America: this is our moment. This is our fight. “Together we will win,” he concluded.
With “Super Tuesday” in the rearview mirror, the presidential campaign changed speed and the campaign strategy decidedly set its sights on the November elections, turning the page on the primary elections, which this year offered a minimum dose of intrigue and mystery.
On “Super Tuesday” millions of people were called to vote in 15 states –Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia, and the territory of American Samoa. The most important event of the primaries distributed more than a third of the delegates, who will travel in the summer to the party conventions to elect presidential candidates.
Trump rounded his best moment in the fight for the presidency. Before the big electoral event, the Supreme Court had already put an end to a discussion about his eligibility as a candidate, by ratifying that Trump can compete. All the polls show him ahead of Biden, and the strategy deployed by his lawyers to delay his trials is working. Day by day, Trump confirms his absolute dominance of the Republican Party, which he has managed to redesign in his image and likeness.
One of the main questions at the beginning of the vote was whether, at the end of the day, Haley was finally going to make the decision to end her presidential campaign, or if she would continue. And Haley’s campaign finally announced in the media that the candidate will suspend her campaign, clearing Trump’s path to a new presidential nomination.
Since his loss in his home state of South Carolina late last month, The pressure for Haley to step aside only increased.. The new string of defeats only increased that pressure on the former governor even more. With the primaries and the fight with Trump over, now the new speculation is whether Haley will run as an independent candidate, something unlikely.
The nominations
Haley’s step aside confirms that math rules in the primaries. And, after the string of triumphs, The Trump campaign estimates that in the coming weeks, possibly before the end of March, it will have all the necessary delegates to proclaim himself a presidential candidate.
In his message, Trump clearly already put an end to the internal dispute by focusing fully on his rematch with Biden, and on the general election on November 5.
A chain of surveys that were spread in recent days painted a much more favorable outlook for Trumpand quite worrying for Biden. The tycoon leads in support, popularity and in the seven “swing” states in which the race is expected to be decided. But the polls also show that a significant fraction of the electorate doubts Biden’s strength and mental acuity to remain in the presidency, and, outside of the Democrats, rejects their policies. The polls agree in reflecting the same problem: Biden fails to capitalize on his government’s achievements or the good performance of the economy, and his candidacy is overshadowed by doubts about his old age.
The latest survey by the AP agency and the NORC consulting firm revealed that few Americans see improvements in their own lives or the country under Biden’s presidency. More than half of American adults, 57%, say the economy is somewhat or much worse than before Biden, and a similar share, 55%, say the country is somewhat or much worse.
This apparent discomfort of North Americans with the country’s present – despite the favorable numbers that the economy shows month after month – is tfertile ground for the Trump campaignwho recycled his 2016 message with more ferocity and a dose of nostalgia for his presidency.
In the prologue to “Super Tuesday”, Trump hammered again and again with the crisis at the borderaccusing Biden of having unleashed a “wave of immigrant crime,” a statement that clashes with reality statistics.
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