Donald Trump swept the electoral “Super Tuesday” and this Wednesday overcame the last obstacle he had left to fight against Joe Biden for his return to the White House:
Nikki Haley, his rival in the Republican primary, left the campaign
and the road now It is clear for the magnate to focus on the general elections on November 5.
Both candidates have already set out to win over the voters of the former ambassador to the United Nations.
Trump
easily won 14 of the 15 states
where Republican primaries were contested on Tuesday, while Haley won only one, progressive Vermont.
Biden also triumphed in the Democratic primaries in all the states, where he competed quietly with almost no rivals.
Trump can mathematically confirm his presidential candidacy on the 12th and Biden, with certainty, on March 19.
Although the former president was already considering the nomination, the decision of his former ambassador and former governor of South Carolina
gives him a break and leaves him as the undisputed leader
of his party, although he must now work to attract anti-Trump voters. because she, by declining her candidacy, avoided supporting Trump.
At a press conference Wednesday morning, Haley spoke for the first time since the results became known.
"The time has come to suspend my campaign (...) It is now up to Trump to win the votes of those inside and outside our party who did not support him. And I hope he does," she said in Charleston, South Carolina.
“Never just follow the crowd,
always make your own decisions
,” Haley said.
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The Republican and the Democrat will fight to convince voters of Nikki Haley.
The electorate of this 52-year-old woman, the first to win two states in the history of the Republican Party,
is conservative but more moderate, linked to the traditional,
globalist and Reaganite style of the Grand Old Party.
It has the majority vote of women, young people and a more educated profile, which clearly contrasts with Trump's MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement, which has a majority male, white base (although it is incorporating African Americans and Latinos) and older age, a profile that has clearly taken over the game.
Nikki Haley declined to continue running in the Republican race.
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The race between Trump and Biden for November appears tight
, today with a trend of two points in favor of the magnate, according to the RealClearPolitics poll average, although the Republican is ahead in several key states.
It is not surprising then that both candidates immediately went out to try to
seduce Haley's voters.
"Nikki Haley was DEFEATED last night, in record fashion, even though Democrats, for unknown reasons, are allowed to vote in Vermont and several other Republican primaries," Trump posted on Truth Social this Wednesday, minutes after Haley suspended his campaign.
"I would like to thank my family, friends and the Great Republican Party for helping me produce by far the
most successful Super Tuesday in HISTORY
, and I would also like to invite all Haley supporters to join the largest movement in the history of our nation," he added.
“BIDEN IS THE ENEMY.
IT IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY.”
True to form, he also continued to hit her by saying that Haley's campaign
was funded “by radical left-wing Democrats
, like many of her voters” and said he hoped she would join his campaign.
The Democrat
Biden also seeks the vote of the former official and anticipated it bluntly.
“Trump has made it clear that he does not want Nikki Haley supporters.
I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign
,” Biden said in a statement. “I know there are many things we will disagree on. But the Fundamental issues such as preserving American democracy, defending the rule of law, treating each other with decency, dignity and respect, preserving NATO and confronting America's adversaries, I hope and believe that we can find common ground," he said.
In the United States,
traditionally, whoever prevails among the moderate and independent electorate wins
.
It happened to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Trump and Biden themselves, who managed to connect with that sector at the time.
But this year's duel will be without surprise elements: both already have a mandate under their belts and Trump is not the “outsider” showman who seduced deep America.
Nikki Haley's votes, in dispute.
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In addition,
he faces 91 charges and four criminal cases
for which he could be convicted: although in the United States a president can govern from prison and the Republican base does not care, a conviction could affect the vision of the less extreme electorate.
Haley's voters
do not want the chaos, mismanagement and unpredictability that Trump
can bring back to the White House.
A Quinnipiac poll found that while a large portion of Haley's Republican and Republican-leaning voters would back Trump,
37% would vote for Biden.
The president, meanwhile, seeks to extend the momentum of Super Tuesday to this Thursday, when he will deliver the traditional State of the Union speech on prime time television, which will serve as a campaign lectern in this election year.
Biden will praise his management,
especially in the economic aspect
since although the economy is doing well and inflation has dropped to almost normal figures for the country, it is an issue that Americans still view with great concern.
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