SUPER TUESDAY COUNTDOWN:
The Republican presidential nominating contest will attain its apex on March 5, when 16 states will maintain primaries and greater than 800 GOP delegates shall be up for grabs.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley notched her first victory of the 2024 main marketing campaign on Sunday, besting former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., and capturing almost 63% of the vote, in accordance with an Related Press name of the race about 90 minutes after polls closed.
The Haley marketing campaign appears to be like to hold the momentum to Monday’s contest in North Dakota, the place 29 delegates are up for grabs.
On Saturday, Republican delegates in three states had been awarded to Trump as Idaho and Missouri held caucuses and Michigan allotted further delegates in its Republican state conference – days after it held its main.
This is a have a look at the state of the race heading into Tremendous Tuesday:
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump (Getty Photos)
President Biden and Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn. (AP Photograph)
ONE NEW FIRST: Haley’s first main win in Washington, D.C. on Sunday means she is going to stroll away with 19 delegates. D.C. represented Haley’s doable greatest shot at notching a victory and ending Trump’s undefeated main streak. Whereas Trump received the district in an uncontested 2020 main, he completed a distant third behind Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the course of the 2016 main. The district additionally leans closely Democrat, with President Biden garnering 92% of the Washington, D.C., vote within the 2020 election.
ONE NEW BACKTRACK: With Trump’s standing because the clear front-runner in seemingly little hazard, Haley was requested Sunday on “Meet the Press” whether or not she deliberate to assist the previous president if he secures the GOP nomination, one thing the previous South Carolina governor refused to decide to regardless of an earlier pledge.
“For those who discuss an endorsement, you are speaking a few loss. I do not assume like that,” Haley stated when requested if she felt certain by an RNC pledge to assist the eventual nominee. “What I can let you know is I do not assume Donald Trump or Joe Biden needs to be president.”
ONE ANTICIPATED SCOTUS RULING: The Colorado Supreme Court docket dominated in December that Trump is disqualified from being president once more and ineligible for the state’s main – which is Tuesday. The U.S. Supreme Court docket’s choice within the case that can decide whether or not the previous president might be kicked off Colorado’s state main poll for allegedly interfering within the 2020 election may arrive as early as Monday.
“Whenever you’re in a race, you do not take into consideration dropping.”
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser, Chris Pandolfo, Jamie Joseph, Andrew Miller, Bradford Betz, Michael Lee and Thomas Phippen contributed to this report.
