The victory is indisputable.

By winning 14 of the 15 states at stake on Tuesday, March 5, during Super Tuesday in the United States, Donald Trump considerably consolidated his lead over his rival Nikki Haley and is almost guaranteed to win the Republican Party nomination with a view to 'presidential election.

The former American president thus puts an end to a false suspense, while the only uncertainty now concerns the date of the official withdrawal of Nikki Haley, who only won Vermont on Tuesday evening.

Three years after the assault on the Capitol and his turbulent departure from the White House, Donald Trump won his first bet.

Despite his legal setbacks and his escapades, he established himself, at 77 years old and in just two months, as the big winner of the Republican primaries, eliminating in turn rivals who hoped to capitalize on the image of "chaos" and rejection that he was supposed to arouse in their eyes among voters.

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The latter ultimately brought him to victory in 24 primaries out of 27 since the start of the nomination race.

And even if this can in theory stretch until the summer and the national conventions which officially determine the candidates of each party, Donald Trump's team predicts a victory on March 19 at the latest, after ballots in Georgia and Florida in particular.

The former president will be able to play the revenge he wanted so much against Joe Biden.

He did not mention Nikki Haley once in his victory speech on Tuesday evening, devoting all his attacks against the current president to repeating that the United States had become a "third-party country" over the last three years. world".

Trump faces the challenge of bringing together Republican voters

The primaries are traditionally only a formality for an outgoing president, Joe Biden logically won on Tuesday all the states at stake for the Democratic Party, conceding an anecdotal defeat against an unknown in the American Samoa islands, territory of Peaceful.

The return match of the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will therefore take place.

“Tonight's results give Americans a very simple choice: Will we continue to move forward or will we let Donald Trump plunge us into chaos, division and darkness as he did in his first term?” , Joe Biden questioned Tuesday evening, accusing his opponent of being “focused on his own revenge and vengeance, not on the American people.”

Stirring up fears should not, however, be enough, on either side, to convince or enthuse voters.

Thus, 64% of Americans did not want a new Biden-Trump confrontation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published at the end of January 2024.

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Especially since the path is not completely clear for the two candidates.

In the handful of contested states which will decide the outcome of the election in November, Donald Trump will need to collect the votes of moderate Republicans and independents, beyond his very loyal supporters, in particular the "Maga".

“The question on the Republican side is really going to be whether Donald Trump can bring voters together: in an exit poll in North Carolina, for example, 62% of Republican voters said they would never vote for Donald Trump.” , underlined on France 24 Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, professor at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, specialist in the United States.

The “uncommitted” movement, possible thorn in Joe Biden’s side

Donald Trump is also embroiled in multiple legal cases.

Targeted by four indictments for a total of 91 counts, his coming weeks will be punctuated by the trials.

In particular, on March 25, he will become the first former president of the United States to appear before a criminal court in the case of payments aimed at suppressing his supposed relationship with Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress.

As for Joe Biden, who already had to convince that his 81 years are not an obstacle to his re-election, he must also deal with the war in Gaza.

On Tuesday, an initiative to ask him to act to establish an immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian territory again affected his score in one state.

After Michigan last week, in Minnesota, more than 40,000 people cast a blank ballot.

Activists called on voters to show their discontent in order to urge the Biden government to stop supporting Israel.

Minnesota, one of the states with the largest share of Muslim population in the country, voted around 20% white, according to partial results released overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday – a “victory” for this movement, according to the head of the “Uncommitted Minnesota” association, Asma Nizami.

And a problem for Joe Biden which could spread by November.

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