Super (predictable) Tuesday: Trump, Biden sweep most races in busy primary voting day
CBC
U.S. President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump racked up wins across the country in the Super Tuesday primary elections, moving them closer to a historic rematch in the Nov. 5 presidential election despite a lack of enthusiasm from many voters.
The results could ramp up pressure on Nikki Haley, Trump's last major rival, to leave the race.
Super Tuesday features elections in 16 states and one territory — from Alaska and California to Vermont and Virginia.
Hundreds of delegates are at stake, the biggest haul of the race for either party.
Biden and Trump had each won Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Maine, Oklahoma, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts.
The Associated Press projected both Trump and Biden would win their respective races in California — the state with the largest number of delegates for either party. Polls closed and vote counting began at 8:00 p.m. PT/11:00 p.m. ET.
Biden also won the Democratic primaries in Utah, Iowa and Vermont.
Vermont was the site of a rare triumph for Haley, who won the state's Republican primary by a narrow margin over Trump.
That victory will do little to dent Trump's primary dominance, however. The former president won 11 other states on Super Tuesday, including Colorado.
A day earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state could not remove him from the presidential primary ballot in an attempt to hold the former president accountable for his actions leading to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
The spotlight, however, remains on the 81-year-old Biden and the 77-year-old Trump, who continue to dominate their parties despite both facing questions about their age and neither commanding broad popularity across the general electorate.
Trump's celebrated Tuesday's wins at a packed victory party at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
"They call it Super Tuesday for a reason," Trump told a raucous crowd.
He went on to attack Biden over the U.S.-Mexico border and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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