North Carolina: The main question for Donald Trump and Joe Biden coming out of Super Tuesday is this: where will Nikki Haley’s supporters go?
For Haley, beating Trump to the Republican nomination was always going to be tough – particularly after he won almost every primary and caucus race leading up to this contest.
Where will Nikki Haley’s supporters go now? That’s the big question for Donald Trump and Joe Biden coming out of Super Tuesday. Credit: AP, Bloomberg
But after the biggest day of the 2024 primary season, in which Trump triumphed in almost all the 15 states up for grabs, there can be little doubt about the former president’s dominance.
Haley had entered Super Tuesday hoping to stay competitive enough to give voters a chance to pick a “new generational conservative leader” who represents what remains of the Reagan-Bush vision of the Republican Party.
But with no path to the White House, the former US ambassador to the UN dropped out of the race on Wednesday morning (local time), paving the way for an explosive rematch between two men she says are too old for office and too damaging for America.
For Trump, it’s been an extraordinary political comeback. Four years after losing office in an election he still insists was rigged, the former president, who faces 91 criminal charges, has reshaped the Republican Party into a movement moulded in his image.
It is now more populist, blue-collar, grievance-fuelled and loyal than ever before. It subscribes to his view that America is broken under Biden, believes Trump’s legal woes are part of a political witch hunt, and turns a blind eye to the chaos he often sows.
But while Super Tuesday has reinforced the former president’s stronghold over his party, it has also highlighted the ongoing weaknesses he will face now that the 2024 election campaign has begun in earnest.
After Trump’s Super Tuesday triumph, where will Haley’s supporters go?
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North Carolina: The main question for Donald Trump and Joe Biden coming out of Super Tuesday is this: where will Nikki Haley’s supporters go?
For Haley, beating Trump to the Republican nomination was always going to be tough – particularly after he won almost every primary and caucus race leading up to this contest.
Where will Nikki Haley’s supporters go now? That’s the big question for Donald Trump and Joe Biden coming out of Super Tuesday.........
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