Five takeaways from the US Super Tuesday primary races
Al Jazeera
Nikki Haley delivers a powerful rebuke to Trump with a victory in Vermont, while Biden faces continued protest.
It was the small races that signalled trouble in the United States’ Super Tuesday elections.
As expected, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Democratic incumbent Joe Biden both cruised to easy victories in the vast majority of the night’s primaries — the contests that ultimately decide who receives major party nominations.
But underdog candidate Nikki Haley denied Trump a clean sweep on the Republican side with her victory in the small northeastern state of Vermont, where she resonated with moderate voters.
The result offered a glimmer of hope for Haley, a former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor. Haley has long trailed Trump in national and state-level polls. Her victory in Vermont, however, comes on the heels of her win in Sunday’s Republican primary in Washington, DC — two results that may fuel her long-shot campaign to continue chugging along.
Likewise, Biden faced protests at the ballot box over his stance on Israel’s war in Gaza. He also suffered a relatively minor loss in the US territory of American Samoa.
