Former President of the United States, Donald Trump was prevented from sweeping Super Tuesday’s contests after former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley won Vermont’s Republican primary in a rather surprising outcome.
The former president has easily won every race he’s been in this year other than Washington DC’s, amassing hundreds more delegates than Haley.
Africa Today News, New York understand that as a result of her win Tuesday night, she added 17 delegates to her overall count.
Haley may have won Vermont’s primary, besting her former boss, but her road to winning the GOP nomination appears increasingly impassable.
A candidate needs to obtain a majority of all available state delegates to become the party’s nominee at the Republican National Convention in July. Trump’s campaign has predicted for weeks that he’ll hit that target by March 12.
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Trump and his campaign’s predictions may have been spoiled by Haley’s win in Vermont, giving the former governor of South Carolina more time to bolster her message before the next slew of state primaries on the calendar.
At the end of January, Haley said she couldn’t make any predictions about keeping her campaign afloat past Super Tuesday.
Meanwhile, incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden cruised to victory in nearly every race, marking a loss only in the small island territory of American Samoa.
Biden did, however, face a protest vote. In the state of Minnesota, for example, approximately 20 percent of voters chose the “uncommitted” option over the incumbent to show their displeasure for his support of Israel’s war in Gaza.
Down-ballot races offered a preview of the November general elections. In California, for instance, progressive candidates were knocked out of contention for an open Senate seat by Democratic centrist Adam Schiff and political newcomer Steve Garvey, a Republican.
And in Texas, a Republican stronghold, Trump’s hold over the party was tested, as the political hopefuls he endorsed struggled to decisively defeat establishment candidates.