Democratic President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump both called on Nikki Haley’s voters on Wednesday March 6 to join them. Donald Trump’s rival announced “to suspend” his campaign while the former president is almost assured of being the Republican candidate in the presidential elections. Around fifteen states and one territory were called to vote during the traditional “Super Tuesday” to designate the future candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties. This live is now over.
Nikki Haley has announced that she is “suspending” her campaign. Donald Trump won the polls held in 14 states on Tuesday, according to the results given by the AP agency. The former president now has 995 delegate votes, compared to 89 for Nikki Haley, according to the AP count as of noon (Paris time). In reaction, she announced from Charleston, a city in South Carolina, of which she was governor, the end of her campaign. Nikki Haley said she hoped Donald Trump would now focus on “deserve the votes of those, in our party and beyond, who did not support it”.
A surprise victory for Nikki Haley. With only 89 voice of delegates, theformer governor of South Carolina is significantly behind Donald Trump. However, she deprived him of the grand slam, winning a surprise victory in the small state of Vermont.
Donald Trump already sees himself as the party’s candidate. The billionaire, who was already well ahead of his rival before “Super Tuesday”, is still missing a few dozen delegate votes to obtain the Republican Party nomination. His team estimates he will reach the threshold of 1,215 votes before the end of March. He greeted “A wonderful evening, an incredible day”Tuesday evening, in front of his supporters gathered at his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
Joe Biden wins almost every Democratic vote. Unsurprisingly, the outgoing president won easy victories in all the states which voted on the Democratic side, according to the first results communicated overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday by the AP agency. On the other hand, Jason Palmer, an illustrious unknown, won in American Samoa, an archipelago in the Pacific.