Donald Trump calls US ‘third-world country’ after Super Tuesday wins
Nikki Haley has beaten Donald Trump in Vermont’s Republican primary in a close fight that came down to the wire, a surprise on what was otherwise a dominant Super Tuesday for the front-runner in which he is projected to have won more than a dozen primaries, including such large states as California and Texas.
Declaring victory at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Tuesday night, Mr Trump said: “They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one.
“They tell me the pundits and otherwise that there’s never been one like this… has never been anything so conclusive.”
Both President Joe Biden and Mr Trump claimed early victories in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Oklahoma, although Mr Biden faced an upset from a little-known candidate in the US territory of American Samoa.
As it stands, Mr Trump looks all but certain to be the Republican Party’s presidential candidate once again, having already chalked up big wins in Iowa, the US Virgin Islands, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan, Idaho, and Missouri.
Despite adding to her win on Washington DC on Sunday, Ms Haley is widely expected to drop out imminently.
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Donald Trump calls US ‘third-world country’ after Super Tuesday wins
Donald Trump calls US ‘third-world country’ after Super Tuesday wins
Maroosha Muzaffar6 March 2024 08:15
Lauren Boebert looks to take revenge on Colorado official who called for Trump to be disqualified
“You have no business in the Secretary of State’s office and shouldn’t oversee an election in which you have shown a clear bias,” Ms Boebert wrote on X. “You’re unfit. Time for you to be RECALLED!”
Ms Boebert was responding to a statement from Ms Griswold expressing her disappointment at the Supreme Court’s decision to take away states’ authority to enforce the US Constitution’s insurrection clause for federal candidates.
Katie Hawkinson6 March 2024 08:00
Comment: Trump’s glitzy victory party at Mar-a-Lago hides an awkward truth about his ‘conclusive’ Super Tuesday win
Jon Sopel joins a thousand jubilant Republicans in Florida as Donald Trump declares himself invincible in the race for the party’s presidential nomination. But his rival Nikki Haley has a couple of options – one thermonuclear – that could yet derail him:
Maroosha Muzaffar6 March 2024 07:52
Haley’s campaign refutes calls for her to drop out of the race
Nikki Haley’s campaign spokesperson, Olivia Perez-Cubas, has refuted calls from some Republicans for her to withdraw from the race.
“Unity is not achieved by simply claiming ‘we’re united,’” Ms Perez-Cubas said in a statement on Tuesday. “Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better.”
Maroosha Muzaffar6 March 2024 07:47
Super Tuesday was bad for Haley. But the results expose Trump weaknesses as well
Nikki Haley’s campaign was left in the dust by Donald Trump’s on Tuesday night in the kind of showing that could severely weaken her ability to press on towards the GOP convention in July.
The former governor of South Carolina was only projected to win one state, Vermont, on Tuesday as her opponent cleaned up with victories in more than a dozen others likely to include the two largest prizes of the night: California and Texas. Should Ms Haley prevail over the former president in the northeast, it will be with a slim margin of victory eclipsed by the wide gulfs separating her from Mr Trump in every other state.
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Maroosha Muzaffar6 March 2024 07:45
Donald Trump wins Alaska primary
Donald Trump has won the Alaska Republican primary, according to AP. The state will allocate 29 Republican delegates based on the results of the caucus.
Maroosha Muzaffar6 March 2024 07:37
Georgia commission will soon target prosecutors as Fani Willis faces scrutiny from Republican lawmakers
A committee created by Georgia’s Republican-dominated state legislature with authority to discipline and remove prosecutors could soon derail a criminal case against Donald Trump.
The state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp is set to approve a measure that effectively removes certain guardrails for the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, which the governor signed into law last year.
Republican officials have repeatedly targeted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her case against the former president and more than a dozen of his allies charged under the state’s anti-racketeering law for a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
But GOP lawmakers have denied that the commission was established to take aim at Ms Willis, who was elected to office in 2020 and has served as Fulton County’s chief prosecutor since January 2021.
After creating the commission last year, Mr Kemp said the group would target “far-left prosecutors” who are “making our communities less safe.”
“I am not going to stand idly by as rogue or incompetent prosecutors refuse to uphold the law,” Mr Kemp said in October. “We are sending a message that we will not forfeit public safety for prosecutors to let criminals off the hook.”
Alex Woodward6 March 2024 07:30
Shock American Samoa result spoils Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday clean sweep
Out of 91 ballots cast in the territory’s caucus, little-known candidate Jason Palmer won 51 to Biden’s 40.
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Maroosha Muzaffar6 March 2024 07:14
Mayra Flores and Vincente Gonzalez headed for a rematch in Texas’ 34th district
Former Representative Mayra Flores has won in her Republican primary and is now headed for battle against Democratic representative Vincente Gonzalez in Texas’s 34th district later this year.
Ms Flores initially secured her congressional seat during a special election with low voter turnout in June 2022, marking her as the first Mexican-born woman to serve in Congress. However, in the general election of November 2022, she was defeated by an 8-point margin by Gonzalez, who previously served the neighbouring 13th District.
Maroosha Muzaffar6 March 2024 07:00
VIDEO: Representative Ken Buck explains why he isn’t running for re-election
Representative Ken Buck explains why he isn’t running for re-election
Gustaf Kilander6 March 2024 07:00
