United States: Donald Trump wins in nine states on “Super Tuesday”
Donald Trump won the Republican primaries in nine states on
Super Tuesday
on Tuesday evening , according to American media projections.
A screen displaying Republican candidate Donald Trump's victory in Virginia, March 5, 2024 at Mar-a-Lago © Rebecca Blackwell / AP
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Former President
Donald Trump
is the winner in Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Alabama, Texas against his last Republican rival, Nikki Haley.
“
Super Tuesday
” is an essential event in American politics, during which 15 states simultaneously organize their presidential primaries.
Millions of Americans voted to nominate their Democratic and Republican candidates in the November election.
The results of this Super Tuesday are expected throughout the night, while the last polling stations must close at 5 a.m. UT in Alaska.
On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden, 81, is seeking a second term and faces no serious opposition.
The candidacies of two Democrats launched in pursuit of him, the elected representative of Minnesota Dean Phillips and the best-selling author Marianne Williamson, have never really aroused enthusiasm, despite recurring criticism of the president's age or his support for Israel.
Unsurprisingly, he already won the first nine states in play on Tuesday evening, as well as Iowa which had been organizing postal voting in recent weeks.
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