Nikki Haley trailing behind Donald Trump in Republican presidential battle on Super Tuesday
Nikki Haley is trailing far behind her rival Donald Trump, who is most likely to emerge as the presumptive nominee after the Republican Party's crucial Super Tuesday contest. Trump and Haley were campaigning vigorously in various Super Tuesday states, making a last-minute pitch to the Republican voters.
Super Tuesday is an important new phase of presidential primaries when the early contests are over, and voters from multiple states cast ballots in primaries timed to occur on the same date.
RealClearPolitics, which keeps track of all national polls, reported that 77-year-old former president Trump was leading by more than 60 percentage points on average in various national polls.
No political pundit is giving Haley, 51, any chance against Trump, the most popular politician in the Republican party in recent times.
Despite facing scores of legal battles and embarrassing indictments, Trump is attracting thousands of Republicans to his rallies, while the numbers at Haley's events are far less.
On Super Tuesday, Republican presidential primaries are being held in California, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Utah, Minnesota, Colorado, Arkansas, Maine, and Vermont.
More than a third of all the Republican delegates are at stake on Super Tuesday, the biggest haul of any date on the primary calendar.
To win the presidential nomination of the Republican party, either of the two candidates needs 1,215
