Correspondent in Washington
“Super Tuesday” confirmed it: Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face each other again next November for the American presidential election.
In sixteen states that voted simultaneously in primaries or caucuses during the day on Tuesday, voters rallied behind the two figures of their respective parties.
The last Republican candidate, Nikki Haley, is suspending her campaign.
On the Democratic side, Joe Biden won every vote, like virtually every outgoing president, with the anecdotal exception of the tiny territory of Samoa.
But this victory is marked more by resignation than by enthusiasm.
Democrats who are concerned about his age and his ability to campaign again, before occupying the presidential office for four more years, have no alternative to his candidacy.
And a significant proportion of blank ballots in Minnesota indicate that part of its electorate does not…
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