There were 4 things to learn from Super Tuesday
Biden-Trump Rematch: What Happens When Haley Gets Left Behind? (Super-Tuesday Results from TRUMP’S Party)
Everyone has a lot of opinions about this election. Some people were likely in denial that there would really be a Biden-Trump rematch. It’s happening, it’s something extraordinary and unforeseen at this point.
Haley has an opportunty here, but it depends on how she does in the coming days. A large number of Haley’s voters still tell exit pollsters that they will not support Trump in the general election. Independents who are willing to vote for a Republican is the type of voters Trump needs to win in the general election.
There weren’t enough independents to vote in the Republican primary in all the states this year. Haley was unable to dislodge Trump voters from Trump, and that was the only way anyone other than Trump could win.
Because this is TRUMP’S party, all of thatDepends on her coming around to him, like she did in 2016 And if she wants a future in it, she’ll probably have to eventually get back in the fold.
Implications of Donald Trump’s victory speech on immigration for the American public, and for the state of the affairs in the past eight years
There were high levels of dislike towards the two candidates. Third-party candidates clamoring and threatening to make a difference. The Donald’s victory speech on immigration is broadcasted on cable news, and it covers how he alone can fix it.
If you think it’s about the 2016 election, you’d be forgiven. It’s in many ways what’s happening again – except instead of an open presidential race, one without an incumbent, there are essentially two incumbents running. The country’s views of both men have been set.
Both have unfavorable ratings averaging above 50%. Trump has been in the public spotlight for nine years. There was discontent with Biden from some of his party’s wings Tuesday night, as Biden’s approval ratings are not great. More than 20,000 people voted uncommitted in Colorado, and almost one-fifth of their vote in Minnesota. That follows up from Michigan last week when 100,000 people in the primary voted for uncommitted, too, largely because of Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza.
Because of all that, if this was an election with anyone on the ballot who wasn’t Trump, this would be a race about change. Instead, it’s one between an incumbent and a quasi-incumbent and Democrats will try their best to make it a referendum on Trump, with a lot on the line.
Those who have not come around will eventually do so. And then they will have to think past “they’re old” and get to who most aligns with their ideals, as imperfectly as either might be for some portions of their parties.
People vote based on their priorities, whether they want to protect their reproductive rights and the LGBTQ rights, or if they want to take a harder line on immigration. In states like North Carolina and Arizona, an up-ballot effect is possible due to the sort of candidates for statewide office in the mold of Trump who have limited Republicans’ chances in the last three elections.
Super Tuesday provided more evidence of what motivates voters than the candidates’ age, and there will be more of that going on in this election.
At any other time in the past eight years, Trump has held a more dominant position in American politics. His romp through Super Tuesday was the final step in the replay of the Republican primaries of 2016 with his opposition fatally divided and his coalition much stronger from the start. And while the residual support for Nikki Haley indicates some persistent discontent, the polls that matter are the ones that show Trump consistently beating President Biden — a show of strength beyond anything he managed at a similar point in his previous two presidential runs.
Is it possible that we went from defeat to recovery and strength? The most important political result of the Republican disappointment in 2022, which was not the blow to Trump, but the return of Biden’s swagger, prevented the liberal coalition from making an issue of Biden’s age and pushing him out for 2024.
Democrats were stuck with an unpopular economic record and Presidential decrepitude if they had stuck with Biden. It was harder and harder for Ron DeSantis and Haley to persuade voters that they liked Trump, after every new survey showing Biden struggling, because they had to explain that Trump was unelectability.
