Washington (agencies)
American voters in 15 states are voting today to choose their candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, within the framework of “Super Tuesday,” which constitutes a decisive milestone in the American presidential election calendar, and is expected to confirm the inevitability of the confrontation between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in November.
In order to obtain their party's ticket for the presidential elections, candidates must obtain a certain number of delegates, and in this context, the total number of votes they receive to reach this result does not matter.
Primary elections for the Republican and Democratic parties are held every four years to officially choose the delegates who will vote to choose the candidate during the party's general conference.
The majority of the 15 states that hold primaries within the framework of “Super Tuesday” choose their delegates based on the same principle, that is, the candidate who receives the largest number of votes receives the total number of delegates for each state, and coming in second place may mean not obtaining any delegate. For Nikki Haley, the only remaining candidate on Donald Trump's path to the Republican nomination, this system has almost completely eliminated her chances, as it tends to serve the interest of the most likely candidate.
With the exception of the primary elections that took place yesterday, in Washington, DC, and were won by Nikki Haley, which is her first victory in the race for the party’s nomination and is considered a symbolic victory for the former US ambassador to the United Nations, former President Donald Trump won the primary elections in all the states where elections were held so far. Before Super Tuesday. The former governor of South Carolina achieved 40% of the votes in this state, but she only got 3 delegates, while Trump won 47 delegates. Haley pledged to continue the race until at least Super Tuesday.
Experts believe that its continuation until now is linked, in particular, to its hope that Donald Trump may not be able to participate in the November elections due to his judicial troubles.
Donald Trump needs 1,215 delegates out of 2,429 to secure the Republican nomination. He has won eight states and regions that have witnessed elections so far, achieving more than 247 delegates, compared to only 24 for Nikki Haley, and during “Super Tuesday” more than a third of the delegates will be chosen.
The former president dominates the race and may exceed the required number of delegates by March 19, even if the primaries continue until early June. The Democratic Party adopts the same principle and has 3,934 delegates. Joe Biden, whose obtaining his party's nomination is considered a formality, must win the support of 1,968 delegates, as he has so far obtained 206 delegates, and he may secure his nomination as of March as well.
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