The Slate Decision Desk tabulated votes and worked campaign insiders all night Super Tuesday, and to a person, we reached a conclusion: Donald Trump and Joe Biden are in excellent shape to win their respective parties’ presidential nominations. Sorry, Nikki-Pickies and neo-Deaniacs. The data is singing to us loud and clear.

In other words, there weren’t many surprises in the presidential primary results this week as more than a dozen states cast ballots for presidential nominees. (There was a surprise though.)

Donald Trump won all but one Republican contest over Nikki Haley, and his wins were all by double-digit margins. The one state in which Haley took a victory—her second of the cycle, after winning Washington D.C. over the weekend—was Vermont, which is not a delegate-rich state.

President Biden, meanwhile, won every state primary by substantial, incumbent-sized margins. He did not win every contest, however. He lost the American Samoa caucus, 51 to 40. (That’s not percentage; those are raw vote numbers.) Biden was bested there by a fella named Jason Palmer, a self-described “entrepreneur, impact investor and philanthropist” from Baltimore who appears to have told American Samoans that he’s very popular in the mainland. How nice for him.

While Haley didn’t speak on Tuesday night, her next speech could be a suspension of her campaign, now that Trump is on the verge of capturing a majority of total delegates.

Vermont aside, her best chances for wins were in moderate or blue states, with high percentages of college-educated voters and open primaries for non-Republicans to infiltrate. But........

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