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Super Tuesday 2024: Donald Trump puts Joe Biden in cross hairs as Nikki Haley trails far behind

  • Americans from 15 states and one territory vote on Super Tuesday, a US campaign calendar milestone
  • Voting bonanza expected to leave Donald Trump a hair’s breadth from securing the Republican nomination

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Donald Trump at a campaign rally Saturday in Greensboro, North Carolina. Photo: AP
Agence France-Presse

Donald Trump will march to the threshold of a third Republican presidential nomination this week as millions of Americans vote in “Super Tuesday” – a critical milestone in his party’s lopsided 2024 race for the White House.

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Normally the most consequential part of the campaign before the election itself, Super Tuesday decides Republican and Democratic primaries in the giant states of California and Texas, as well as more than a dozen other battlegrounds.

But the usual drama will largely be absent this year, with the door expected to swing firmly shut on Trump’s only remaining challenger, Nikki Haley, and clear the way for a repeat of his 2020 match-up with Joe Biden.

The US president is virtually unopposed in the Democratic contest and will look to keep an insurmountable lead against two single-digit challengers.

Nikki Haley greeting supporters at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo: Reuters
Nikki Haley greeting supporters at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo: Reuters
Until she posted a symbolic win Sunday night in the Washington DC primary, Haley, a former South Carolina governor, had not won a single contest. But she did clinch 40 per cent of the vote in New Hampshire and South Carolina – a sign, she argues, that the party remains divided over Trump.
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