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Republican and Democratic delegates: as it stands after Super Tuesday
Sixteen states and one territory held presidential candidate contests yesterday on Super Tuesday.
In the Republican primary, 874 of 2,429 total delegates were up for grabs, and the winning candidate will ultimately need 1,215 delegates to capture the nomination.
In the Democratic contest, 1,421 delegates, representing roughly a third of all delegates, were be up for grabs on Super Tuesday, and Joe Biden will need 1,968 delegates to officially win the nomination.
Key events
As George Chidi and Dani Anguiano reported earlier, the United States has not witnessed a primary campaign season with so little competitive tension since political primaries began to dominate the nomination process in the 1970s. Every race went the way of Joe Biden or Donald Trump as expected, with the exception of Nikki Haley taking Vermont, and Biden being defeated in American Samoa.
Neither the current president nor the former president secured the nomination of their respective parties yet, but both are likely to do so within the next two weeks.
A reminder that you can get all the results from the primaries across the US in our live results tracker.
David Smith
David Smith was in Palm Beach, Florida for the Guardian to watch Donald Trump give his victory speech. Here is an extract from his analysis:
This was Trump as Eeyore. No balloons, no confetti, no parade of family members on stage and no mention of opponent Nikki Haley. No fun.
“Some people call it an experiment – I don’t call it an experiment,” Trump said of the United States. “I just say this is a magnificent place, a magnificent country, and it’s sad to see how far it’s come and gone … When you look at the depths where it’s gone, we can’t let that happen. We’re going to straighten it out. We’re going to close our borders. We’re going to drill baby drill.”
He has upended and inverted yet another political convention: optimism. Not for him Ronald Reagan’s morning in America or Bill Clinton’s place called Hope or Barack Obama’s yes, we can. Instead only murder, mayhem and total darkness.
If only he had still been running things, he lamented, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine, Israel would not have been attacked and Iran would be broke. Now inflation is “destroying the middle class, it’s destroying everything”.
“Our cities are being overrun with migrant crime, and that’s Biden migrant crime,” Trump grimaced. “But it’s a new category and it’s violent, where they’ll stand in the middle of the street and have fistfights with police officers. And if they did that in their countries from where they came, they’d be killed instantly. They wouldn’t do that. So the world is laughing at us. The world is taking advantage of us.”
Read more here: Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech: grim visions of an American apocalypse
Trump wins Utah in final call of Super Tuesday
The AP declared Donald Trump the winner of Utah’s presidential caucuses, the last of the primary races to be called.
Long lines and technical difficulties beset the contest. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that:
The Republican party had urged caucus attendees to pre register through their website to make the checking process go smoothly. But chaos ensued Tuesday night, after digital systems crashed at multiple caucus locations. At several locations lack of internet slowed down and even stopped the process, leaving attendees stuck in long lines according to one Utah Republican source.
It quoted one organiser saying “when people come up, either their voter ID doesn’t seem to load even though they’ve been voting for a long time, or when we try to look them up by their name and address that’s not coming up either.”
Eventually vote counts began to be released in the early hours, with Trump outperforming Nikki Haley in yet another state.
The victory of Jason Palmer in the Democratic contest in American Samoa was one of few eye-catching moments on Super Tuesday. Palmer, a Maryland resident, said “I found out that I had won because my phone started blowing up with friends and campaign staffers texting me.”
He said he’d never visited the territory, but before the caucus had been “campaigning remotely, doing Zoom town halls, talking to people, listening to them about their concerns and what matters to them,” and ended up winning 51 of the 91 ballots cast.
Here is the answer to a question that has almost certainly crossed your mind while reading this: Who is Jason Palmer?
As is traditional with US voting, Associated Press has explained how it has called the primaries. The AP declared Donald Trump the winner in 14 states shortly after polls closed, with Trump leading Nikki Haley in some places by margins of three- or four-to-one. It declared Haley the winner in one state, where the contest was more competitive. It called Vermont’s primary at 10:30pm EST – nearly four hours after polls closed – after vote returns indicated she had opened a lead in the Democratic-leaning state that Trump would be unable to overcome.
Niall Stanage at The Hill has assessed his winners and losers from Super Tuesday. In the winners column he put Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Pro-Palestinian Democrats, Rep Adam Schiff and American Samoa. Of the latter he said “the tiny territory made its voice heard to an outsize degree for the second election cycle in a row”. It handed Biden his only defeat of the night.
For him the losers were Nikki Haley for whom “any lingering flame of hope was snuffed out, and Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses have gone from a first-in-the-nation contest to, Stanage says, creating “no ripples at all”. He also nominates “Excitement for the American public” saying yesterday was “a snooze”. He concludes:
The overall outcome was in no doubt at all – and the wins for Haley in Vermont and the hitherto-unknown Palmer in American Samoa did nothing to change the broader contours. This, in turn, underlines the main paradox of this year’s race. Biden and Trump are going to secure their party nominations with ease, yet polls indicate millions of Americans look at that prospect of a 2020 rematch with grim resignation.
Rachel Leingang
If you missed it overnight, Rachel Leingang pulled together these five key takeaways from Super Tuesday. Here are the highlights:
The protest vote continues
Perhaps the biggest threat to Biden in the Democratic primary is coming from no one – or, rather, from a concerted effort by anti-war Democrats to issue a protest by urging voters to cast ballots for uncommitted or no preference options.
Biden and Trump is inevitable
Despite the hopes of many voters this election year, it’s going to be Trump and Biden redux in November – unless something non-electoral happens, like a prison sentence or health crisis.
What will last candidates standing do
Dropout announcements could come in the next few days from either side of the ticket.
Low turnout
Because of the lack of competition and lagging enthusiasm for Trump and Biden, voters don’t seem excited to head to the polls this primary season. Turnout has fallen below past races, though in some states, uncommitted campaigns newly energized those voters who might have stayed home.
Far-right machinations in the states
Alabama’s Republican voters chose not to closely challenge the abortion politics of their state’s highest jurists on Tuesday. And in North Carolina, Lt. Gov Mark Robinson captured about two-thirds of the Republican primary vote on Tuesday to win the nomination for governor. Robinson has made a litany of inflammatory public comments about race, gender, sexual orientation and religion, with repeated and particular attacks on Jews.
Read more of Rachel Leingang’s analysis here: Super Tuesday key takeaways: protest vote, low turnout and far-right machinations
Republican and Democratic delegates: as it stands after Super Tuesday
Sixteen states and one territory held presidential candidate contests yesterday on Super Tuesday.
In the Republican primary, 874 of 2,429 total delegates were up for grabs, and the winning candidate will ultimately need 1,215 delegates to capture the nomination.
In the Democratic contest, 1,421 delegates, representing roughly a third of all delegates, were be up for grabs on Super Tuesday, and Joe Biden will need 1,968 delegates to officially win the nomination.
Welcome and opening summary …
Super Tuesday may not have had the potential to shake up the race to be presidential nominee like in years gone by, but it did nevertheless throw up a few surprises. Here are the headlines …
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump picked up easy victories across the US this Super Tuesday, racking up delegates as the prepare to face off in the November elections.
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Biden and Trump won their respective primaries in California, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Minnesota.
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The two candidates sparred in statements and speeches after polls closed. While Biden warned that Trump was “determined to destroy democracy”, Trump leaned heavily into nativist rhetoric about migrants, falsely claiming US cities are “being overrun by migrant crime”.
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Biden also saw an unusual loss – in American Samoa. In the US territory, little known candidate Jason Palmer garnered 51 votes to Biden’s 40.
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Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Vermont – her second victory of 2024. Her campaign declined to signal next steps amid mounting pressure from within her own party to step out of the race.
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A Hitler-quoting candidate, Mark Robinson, won the North Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. He’ll will face Democrat Josh Stein in what is expected to be a heavily contested race in November.
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In California, centrist Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican ex-baseball player Steve Garvey advanced in the open primary for US Senate. Garvey, who was initially seen as a long-shot candidate, was boosted by Schiff, whose ads focused on the Republican rather than fellow Democratic challengers Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
It is Martin Belam with you for the next couple of hours. You can contact me at martin.belam@theguardian.com.
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Here are the headlines …</p>”,”elementId”:”2fee5ae8-d3d9-4a04-ac96-502953d414dc”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<ul>n <li><p><strong>Joe Biden</strong> and <strong>Donald Trump</strong> picked up easy victories across the US this <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/super-tuesday”>Super Tuesday</a>, racking up delegates as the prepare to face off in the November elections.</p></li>n <li><p><strong>Biden</strong> and <strong>Trump</strong> won their respective primaries in California, Virginia, <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/northcarolina”>North Carolina</a>, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Minnesota.</p></li>n <li><p><strong>The two candidates</strong> sparred in statements and speeches after polls closed. While Biden <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/05/super-tuesday-primary-election-trump-haley-biden-latest-updates?page=with:block-65e7e25b8f08bec6f4ed6ba2#block-65e7e25b8f08bec6f4ed6ba2″>warned</a> that Trump was “determined to destroy democracy”, Trump leaned heavily into <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/05/super-tuesday-primary-election-trump-haley-biden-latest-updates?page=with:block-65e7e4368f08bec6f4ed6bb2#block-65e7e4368f08bec6f4ed6bb2″>nativist rhetoric</a> about migrants, falsely claiming US cities are “being overrun by migrant crime”.</p></li>n <li><p><strong>Biden</strong> also saw an unusual loss – in American Samoa. In the US territory, little known candidate <strong><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/american-samoa-democratic-caucus-jason-palmer-beats-joe-biden-results”>Jason Palmer</a></strong> garnered 51 votes to Biden’s 40.</p></li>n <li><p><strong><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/05/super-tuesday-primary-election-trump-haley-biden-latest-updates?page=with:block-65e7e5de8f08d345ed5f3b13#block-65e7e5de8f08d345ed5f3b13″>Nikki Haley</a></strong> won the Republican primary in Vermont – her second victory of 2024. Her campaign declined to signal next steps amid mounting pressure from within her own party to step out of the race.</p></li>n <li><p>A Hitler-quoting candidate, <strong><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/05/mar”>Mark Robinson</a>,</strong> won the <strong>North Carolina</strong> Republican gubernatorial primary. He’ll will face Democrat <strong>Josh Stein</strong> in what is expected to be a heavily contested race in November.</p></li>n <li><p>In <strong>California</strong>, centrist Democrat <strong>Adam Schiff</strong> and Republican ex-baseball player <strong>Steve Garvey</strong> <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/adam-schiff-california”>advanced in the open primary</a> for US Senate. Garvey, who was initially seen as a long-shot candidate, was boosted by Schiff, whose ads focused on the Republican rather than fellow Democratic challengers Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.</p></li>n</ul>”,”elementId”:”072dc879-2af5-4940-8b55-31fd4c70fb76″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>It is Martin Belam with you for the next couple of hours. You can contact me at <a href=”mailto:martin.belam@theguardian.com”>martin.belam@theguardian.com</a>.</p>”,”elementId”:”683ae723-c09f-4df4-8c16-107508a07f80″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:false,”summary”:true},”blockCreatedOn”:1709719842000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”11.10 CET”,”blockLastUpdated”:1709719435000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”11.03 CET”,”blockFirstPublished”:1709719842000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”11.10 CET”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”11.10″,”title”:”Welcome and opening summary …”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Wed 6 Mar 2024 11.53 CET”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Wed 6 Mar 2024 11.10 CET”}],”filterKeyEvents”:false,”id”:”key-events-carousel-mobile”}” config=”{“renderingTarget”:”Web”,”darkModeAvailable”:false}”>Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAs George Chidi and Dani Anguiano reported earlier, the United States has not witnessed a primary campaign season with so little competitive tension since political primaries began to dominate the nomination process in the 1970s. Every race went the way of Joe Biden or Donald Trump as expected, with the exception of Nikki Haley taking Vermont, and Biden being defeated in American Samoa.Neither the current president nor the former president secured the nomination of their respective parties yet, but both are likely to do so within the next two weeks.A reminder that you can get all the results from the primaries across the US in our live results tracker.ShareDavid SmithDavid Smith was in Palm Beach, Florida for the Guardian to watch Donald Trump give his victory speech. Here is an extract from his analysis:This was Trump as Eeyore. No balloons, no confetti, no parade of family members on stage and no mention of opponent Nikki Haley. No fun.“Some people call it an experiment – I don’t call it an experiment,” Trump said of the United States. “I just say this is a magnificent place, a magnificent country, and it’s sad to see how far it’s come and gone … When you look at the depths where it’s gone, we can’t let that happen. We’re going to straighten it out. We’re going to close our borders. We’re going to drill baby drill.”He has upended and inverted yet another political convention: optimism. Not for him Ronald Reagan’s morning in America or Bill Clinton’s place called Hope or Barack Obama’s yes, we can. Instead only murder, mayhem and total darkness.If only he had still been running things, he lamented, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine, Israel would not have been attacked and Iran would be broke. Now inflation is “destroying the middle class, it’s destroying everything”.“Our cities are being overrun with migrant crime, and that’s Biden migrant crime,” Trump grimaced. “But it’s a new category and it’s violent, where they’ll stand in the middle of the street and have fistfights with police officers. And if they did that in their countries from where they came, they’d be killed instantly. They wouldn’t do that. So the world is laughing at us. The world is taking advantage of us.”Read more here: Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech: grim visions of an American apocalypseShareTrump wins Utah in final call of Super TuesdayThe AP declared Donald Trump the winner of Utah’s presidential caucuses, the last of the primary races to be called.Voters gather in groups to discuss the Republican presidential candidates and other issues during the Republican Caucasus at Wasatch Elementary school in Provo, Utah on Super Tuesday. Photograph: George Frey/AFP/Getty ImagesLong lines and technical difficulties beset the contest. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that:
The Republican party had urged caucus attendees to pre register through their website to make the checking process go smoothly. But chaos ensued Tuesday night, after digital systems crashed at multiple caucus locations. At several locations lack of internet slowed down and even stopped the process, leaving attendees stuck in long lines according to one Utah Republican source.
It quoted one organiser saying “when people come up, either their voter ID doesn’t seem to load even though they’ve been voting for a long time, or when we try to look them up by their name and address that’s not coming up either.”Eventually vote counts began to be released in the early hours, with Trump outperforming Nikki Haley in yet another state.Utah caucus resultShareThe victory of Jason Palmer in the Democratic contest in American Samoa was one of few eye-catching moments on Super Tuesday. Palmer, a Maryland resident, said “I found out that I had won because my phone started blowing up with friends and campaign staffers texting me.”Honored to announce my victory in the American Samoa presidential primary. Thank you to the incredible community for your support. This win is a testament to the power of our voices. Together, we can rebuild the American Dream and shape a brighter future for all #VoteJasonPalmer pic.twitter.com/Txf771rhtI— Jason Palmer (@educationpalmer) March 6, 2024
He said he’d never visited the territory, but before the caucus had been “campaigning remotely, doing Zoom town halls, talking to people, listening to them about their concerns and what matters to them,” and ended up winning 51 of the 91 ballots cast.Here is the answer to a question that has almost certainly crossed your mind while reading this: Who is Jason Palmer?ShareAs is traditional with US voting, Associated Press has explained how it has called the primaries. The AP declared Donald Trump the winner in 14 states shortly after polls closed, with Trump leading Nikki Haley in some places by margins of three- or four-to-one. It declared Haley the winner in one state, where the contest was more competitive. It called Vermont’s primary at 10:30pm EST – nearly four hours after polls closed – after vote returns indicated she had opened a lead in the Democratic-leaning state that Trump would be unable to overcome.Vermont primary resultsShareNiall Stanage at The Hill has assessed his winners and losers from Super Tuesday. In the winners column he put Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Pro-Palestinian Democrats, Rep Adam Schiff and American Samoa. Of the latter he said “the tiny territory made its voice heard to an outsize degree for the second election cycle in a row”. It handed Biden his only defeat of the night.For him the losers were Nikki Haley for whom “any lingering flame of hope was snuffed out, and Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses have gone from a first-in-the-nation contest to, Stanage says, creating “no ripples at all”. He also nominates “Excitement for the American public” saying yesterday was “a snooze”. He concludes:
The overall outcome was in no doubt at all – and the wins for Haley in Vermont and the hitherto-unknown Palmer in American Samoa did nothing to change the broader contours. This, in turn, underlines the main paradox of this year’s race. Biden and Trump are going to secure their party nominations with ease, yet polls indicate millions of Americans look at that prospect of a 2020 rematch with grim resignation.
ShareRachel LeingangIf you missed it overnight, Rachel Leingang pulled together these five key takeaways from Super Tuesday. Here are the highlights:The protest vote continuesPerhaps the biggest threat to Biden in the Democratic primary is coming from no one – or, rather, from a concerted effort by anti-war Democrats to issue a protest by urging voters to cast ballots for uncommitted or no preference options.Biden and Trump is inevitableDespite the hopes of many voters this election year, it’s going to be Trump and Biden redux in November – unless something non-electoral happens, like a prison sentence or health crisis.What will last candidates standing doDropout announcements could come in the next few days from either side of the ticket.Low turnoutBecause of the lack of competition and lagging enthusiasm for Trump and Biden, voters don’t seem excited to head to the polls this primary season. Turnout has fallen below past races, though in some states, uncommitted campaigns newly energized those voters who might have stayed home.Far-right machinations in the statesAlabama’s Republican voters chose not to closely challenge the abortion politics of their state’s highest jurists on Tuesday. And in North Carolina, Lt. Gov Mark Robinson captured about two-thirds of the Republican primary vote on Tuesday to win the nomination for governor. Robinson has made a litany of inflammatory public comments about race, gender, sexual orientation and religion, with repeated and particular attacks on Jews.Read more of Rachel Leingang’s analysis here: Super Tuesday key takeaways: protest vote, low turnout and far-right machinationsShareRepublican and Democratic delegates: as it stands after Super TuesdaySixteen states and one territory held presidential candidate contests yesterday on Super Tuesday.In the Republican primary, 874 of 2,429 total delegates were up for grabs, and the winning candidate will ultimately need 1,215 delegates to capture the nomination.<script>
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump picked up easy victories across the US this Super Tuesday, racking up delegates as the prepare to face off in the November elections.
Biden and Trump won their respective primaries in California, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Minnesota.
The two candidates sparred in statements and speeches after polls closed. While Biden warned that Trump was “determined to destroy democracy”, Trump leaned heavily into nativist rhetoric about migrants, falsely claiming US cities are “being overrun by migrant crime”.
Biden also saw an unusual loss – in American Samoa. In the US territory, little known candidate Jason Palmer garnered 51 votes to Biden’s 40.
Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Vermont – her second victory of 2024. Her campaign declined to signal next steps amid mounting pressure from within her own party to step out of the race.
A Hitler-quoting candidate, Mark Robinson, won the North Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. He’ll will face Democrat Josh Stein in what is expected to be a heavily contested race in November.
In California, centrist Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican ex-baseball player Steve Garvey advanced in the open primary for US Senate. Garvey, who was initially seen as a long-shot candidate, was boosted by Schiff, whose ads focused on the Republican rather than fellow Democratic challengers Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
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