Super Tuesday results: Biden and Trump cruise; Haley projected to take Vermont

Good evening and wel­come to our cov­er­age of Super Tues­day 2024!

For those unfa­mil­iar with the moniker, Super Tues­day is a par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant occa­sion on the pres­i­den­tial elec­toral cal­en­dar. It is the day when the most simul­ta­ne­ous pri­maries and cau­cus­es are held out of the whole elec­tion cycle. These clus­tered nom­i­nat­ing events serve as a crit­i­cal lit­mus test in years when one or both par­ties’ nom­i­na­tions are being close­ly contested.

2024 is not one of those years, but Super Tues­day nev­er­the­less remains impor­tant, because the results of today’s nom­i­nat­ing events will deter­mine the allo­ca­tions of a plu­ral­i­ty of nation­al con­ven­tion delegates.

So far, as expect­ed, Pres­i­dent Biden and his defeat­ed pre­de­ces­sor Don­ald Trump are both cruis­ing along. Biden is fac­ing just one active oppo­nent, Dean Phillips, whose cam­paign has failed to gain any trac­tion despite the mass medi­a’s hys­te­ria over Pres­i­dent Biden’s age, which Phillips — a Demo­c­ra­t­ic con­gress­man — has unsuc­cess­ful­ly tried to cap­i­tal­ize on. Trump’s one remain­ing rival, Nik­ki Haley, is nowhere close to him but did man­age to win the Dis­trict of Colum­bia pri­ma­ry this past week­end, and did sur­pass 30% of the vote in two ear­ly pri­ma­ry states.

In Ver­mont, Haley is win­ning. It’s anoth­er rare bright spot for her:

Tonight’s ini­tial results are the best indi­ca­tion yet that the Repub­li­can nom­i­na­tion will once again go to Trump — for the third time in eight years. Pres­i­dent Joe Biden is already con­sid­ered to have the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion locked up despite some fret­ting about his age and via­bil­i­ty against Trump in a rematch.

Both can­di­dates are already look­ing ahead to the gen­er­al elec­tion. Trump trashed Biden in a ram­bling speech car­ried live on sev­er­al cable chan­nels, while Biden released a state­ment strong­ly denounc­ing Trump by name.

“Tonight’s results leave the Amer­i­can peo­ple with a clear choice: Are we going to keep mov­ing for­ward or will we allow Don­ald Trump to drag us back­wards into the chaos, divi­sion, and dark­ness that defined his term in office?” said Biden.

“Four years ago, I ran because of the exis­ten­tial threat Don­ald Trump posed to the Amer­i­ca we all believe in. Since then, we’ve made enor­mous progress: 15 mil­lion jobs, wages ris­ing faster than infla­tion, tak­ing on Big Phar­ma and the gun lob­by — and win­ning. But we have more to do.”

“If Don­ald Trump returns to the White House, all of this progress is at risk. He is dri­ven by griev­ance and grift, focused on his own revenge and ret­ri­bu­tion, not the Amer­i­can peo­ple. He is deter­mined to destroy our democ­ra­cy, rip away fun­da­men­tal free­doms like the abil­i­ty for women to make their own health care deci­sions, and pass anoth­er round of bil­lions of dol­lars in tax cuts for the wealthy — and he’ll do or say any­thing to put him­self in power.

“Today, mil­lions of vot­ers across the coun­try made their voic­es heard — show­ing that they are ready to fight back against Don­ald Trump’s extreme plan to take us back­wards. My mes­sage to the coun­try is this: Every gen­er­a­tion of Amer­i­cans will face a moment when it has to defend democ­ra­cy. Stand up for our per­son­al free­dom. Stand up for the right to vote and our civ­il rights.”

“To every Demo­c­rat, Repub­li­can, and inde­pen­dent who believes in a free and fair Amer­i­ca: This is our moment. This is our fight. Togeth­er, we will win.”

“As we con­tin­ue to watch results come in from states across the coun­try, includ­ing my home state of Cal­i­for­nia, this is an ener­giz­ing moment for our cam­paign,” said Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris. “Amer­i­cans of all back­grounds are show­ing that they sense the urgency of this elec­tion, and that they are ready to stand with Pres­i­dent Biden and me in this fight to pro­tect our fun­da­men­tal freedoms.”

“Don­ald Trump has vowed to be a dic­ta­tor on Day One. He has promised to weaponize the Depart­ment of Jus­tice. And he has bragged that he is proud of his role in rob­bing women of their repro­duc­tive free­dom. He pos­es a fun­da­men­tal threat to our democ­ra­cy, and he must be stopped.”

“Dur­ing the upcom­ing State of the Union, Pres­i­dent Biden will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to report on the tremen­dous progress we have made when it comes to cre­at­ing good-pay­ing jobs, reduc­ing costs, and help­ing Amer­i­ca’s fam­i­lies build a bet­ter life. He will also lay out our vision of what more we can accom­plish, if we work together.”

“This week’s events will serve as a spring­board for the next crit­i­cal phase of the cam­paign. In the com­ing days, I look for­ward to return­ing to three key bat­tle­grounds: Wis­con­sin, Neva­da and Arizona.”

“The pres­i­dent and I know reelec­tion must be earned, and we will con­tin­ue to put in the work to reach every pos­si­ble vot­er. Win­ning the fight to pro­tect our fun­da­men­tal free­doms will require noth­ing less.”

2024 Republican Party presidential primaries results

These juris­dic­tions are hold­ing Repub­li­can nom­i­nat­ing events, which Wikipedia edi­tors are post­ing results for:

• Alaba­ma
• Alas­ka
• Arkansas
• Cal­i­for­nia
• Col­orado
• Maine
• Mass­a­chu­setts
• Min­neso­ta
• North Car­oli­na
• Okla­homa
• Ten­nessee
• Texas
• Utah,
• Ver­mont
• Vir­ginia

2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries results

These juris­dic­tions are hold­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nat­ing events, which Wikipedia edi­tors are post­ing results for:

• Alaba­ma
• Amer­i­can Samoa
• Arkansas
• Cal­i­for­nia
• Col­orado
• Maine
• Mass­a­chu­setts
• Min­neso­ta
• North Car­oli­na
• Okla­homa
• Ten­nessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Ver­mont
• Vir­ginia

Aside from Alas­ka Repub­li­cans, no state par­ty in the greater Pacif­ic North­west is par­tic­i­pat­ing in Super Tues­day. The Wash­ing­ton State pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry is cur­rent­ly ongo­ing, how­ev­er, with bal­lots due back by March 12th. That is also when ini­tial results will become avail­able for study and discussion.

The extreme Repub­li­cans who run Ida­ho’s leg­isla­tive branch acci­den­tal­ly repealed the Gem State’s pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry and failed to fix their mis­take, so Ida­ho does­n’t have a pri­ma­ry this year. Repub­li­cans cau­cused this past week­end, while Democ­rats will be cau­cus­ing towards the end of the cal­en­dar in June.

Ore­gon’s pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry will be con­cur­rent­ly held with its state-lev­el pri­ma­ry in May, con­clud­ing on Tues­day, May 21st, 2024. The pri­ma­ry will be a vote-at-home event, just like in Wash­ing­ton State.