Super Tuesday recap
Joe Biden and Donald Trump picked up easy victories across the US this Super Tuesday, racking up delegates as the prepare to face off in the November elections.
Biden and Trump won their respective primaries in California, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Minnesota.
The two candidates sparred in statements and speeches after polls closed. While Biden warned that Trump was “determined to destroy democracy”, Trump leaned heavily into nativist rhetoric about migrants, falsely claiming US cities are “being overrun by migrant crime”.
Biden also saw an unusual loss – in American Samoa. In the US territory, little known candidate Jason Palmer garnered 51 votes to Biden’s 40.
Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Vermont – her second victory of 2024. Her campaign declined to signal next steps amid mounting pressure from within her own party to step out of the race.
A Hitler-quoting candidate, Mark Robinson, won the North Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. He’ll will face Democrat Josh Stein in what is expected to be a heavily contested race in November.
In California, centrist Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican ex-baseball player Steve Garvey advanced in the open primary for US Senate. Garvey, who was initially seen as a long-shot candidate, was boosted by Schiff, whose ads focused on the Republican rather than fellow Democratic challengers Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
We’re still waiting for results from Utah’s Republican caucuses.
Results are delayed due to technical difficulties with registration. The caucuses, which started at 9pm ET, were meant to conclude by about 11pm ET. But poor internet connection at some locations and other technical issues led to chaos and long lines, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
Fox13 reported from one precinct site:
At Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, the meeting was supposed to start at 7 p.m. But the phone registration process to get the ballot became a fiasco — so much so that members of the party were yelling back at the chairman.
There was nothing distinguishing the volunteers from normal voters — not even a lanyard or neon vest.
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