United States – Donald Trump will be so determined to challenge his one last rival, Nikki Haley, in the primary for the Republican US presidential nomination, that on this crucial Super Tuesday voting day when 15 states hold elections, he will present his best fighting punch.
The former president, unlike the others who have been forced out for his widespread criminal involvement, is standing out as the sole Republican candidate to have outpaced the others so far, winning almost all the contests and reducing the otherwise big Republican candidate field, as reported by Reuters.
Trump cannot get enough delegates totally to award the nomination yet again tomorrow. However, another overwhelming performance may cancel the tiny possibility left of suspense. The polls on Tuesday will give away one-third of Republican Delegates and more than 70% of the required candidates’ counts to secure the Republican nomination.
Trump’s third consecutive nomination would be an opportunity to revisit Democratic President Joe Biden’s performance in next November’s election. Biden will likely get big wins on Tuesday, but activists against Biden’s Israel policy are demanding that Muslim Americans and progressives be uncommitted to Minnesota rather than vote for the frontrunner.
Haley’s Campaign Challenges
Haley, a former UN ambassador under Trump, has recently faced hard questions about how long she will keep running her long-shot campaign, especially after her home state of South Carolina defeated her ten days ago.
She has not made any commitments beyond Super Tuesday and has not arranged any public appearances on Tuesday or thereafter.
“As much as everybody wants to go and push me out, I’m not ready to get out yet,” she told Fox News in an interview on Tuesday morning.
Trump was leading Haley in all Super Tuesday states in which the public, according to poll tracker 538, polling data was available. In California and Texas, these are the states that decide 300 delegate votes or more. With more than 50 points given, Trump is ahead.
However, Haley advocates claim that there is a small-time frame allowed to get some points in that she might win in VA, MA, and VT, which are states with heavier numbers of the wealthy, university-educated who tend to vote for her.
In all, the above three states’ Super Tuesdays are also among several states, including some that do not have their voter primary registered Republicans. In exit polls done by Edison Research, Haley has found herself winning the majority of independent voters and moderates from both parties in most of the early-voting states.
When told that he would talk to Haley after the results of Tuesday, Trump told reporters that his priority was the elections.
“I think we’re going to win every state tonight,” he told Fox News in a separate interview.
Trump’s Strategic Timing
Trump’s advisers claimed they would mathematically remove Haley by March 19, no later, by which 2/3rds of the states would have held the voting process. Trump wanted to knock her out with a final punch to remove her properly. In six days, per Trump’s criminal trial schedule in New York City, he is under charges of falsifying business records to get rid of paying money to an adult actress during his presidential campaign in 2016.
Haley’s Triumphs
Haley scored her first triumph on Sunday in Washington, DC, being the first woman to achieve a Republican primary victory, ever.
The Trump campaign, though, has benefited from Haley’s challenge, as she brought to the fore some of his potential weaknesses in the run-up to the general election. She has said many times that she reached 40% in some states, thus maintaining that independents and centrist Republicans do not really believe in Trump’s second presidential term.
Terri Johnson, 57 years old, a Haley backer, said that Haley would be superior to Biden in the November elections.
“I feel like she would bring the Never Trumpers in, and the Republicans would win in November,” she said at a Haley rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday.
Haley was derided by 43-year-old Trump ally Nicholas Thompson as a “RINO”—a Republican in Name Only.
“Trump doesn’t want to start any new wars, and he’ll secure the border,” Thompson said on Monday as he showed his father and stepmother around the Trump National Golf Club.
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court decided that states have no right to take away the names of Trump from their ballots following that US constitutional amendment bars people from holding office who engage in insurrections.
The resolution might be considered a victory for Trump, but it reminded the world of how hard he was trying to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election, which reached its peak when a mob of his supporters stormed the capitol on January 6, 2021.
Legal Challenges
Trump faces election interference charges from both the federal and the state, but the fact that the trial is necessary for the charges to be brought to the court before the election is not clear. Besides these two cases and monthly hush-money trial that are scheduled to come next month, he also faces federal indictments for keeping of classified records after he exited his office, as reported by Reuters.
The defendant has pleaded not guilty and has repeatedly, without proof, claimed that the charges against him are fabricated by the Democrats, who are in a conspiracy not to allow him to return to the power.