US Elections 2024: Donald Trump, Joe Biden set for rematch as Nikki Haley exits race after Super Tuesday | 5 points
15 states and one US territory cast ballots on Tuesday. The states which were up for grabs on Tuesday, which include the giant battlegrounds of California and Texas, offered 70 per cent of the delegates a candidate needs to be named the presumptive nominee. They do not officially become the nominees until they are confirmed by their party conventions later in the summer.
ALSO READ: 2024 US Election: What if Joe Biden or Donald Trump leave the presidential race? 1. Nikki Haley will suspend her presidential campaign, leaving Donald Trump as last major Republican candidate, news agency Associated Press cited sources as saying. Her departure clears Trump to focus solely on his likely rematch in November with Biden.
The former president is on track to reach the necessary 1,215 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination later this month. 2. Donald Trump, who is in the race to grab the US presidential post again this year, won 14 of 15 primary elections in the "Super Tuesday" states, including Texas and California.
He, however, lost out on a clean sweep after Nikki Haley's surprise win in Vermont. Both Trump and Haley after Republican front-runners for the 2024 presidential elections. Trump seeks to clinch the nomination by mid-March and turn toward a general election rematch against President Joe Biden.
He is a former US president who is bidding for a sensational White House comeback after being unseated by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. 3. Meanwhile, in the Democratic nomination contest, as expected, US President Joe Biden won all 15 states. However, he lost to little-known challenger Jason Palmer in the small Pacific Ocean territory of American Samoa, AFP reported.
Read more on livemint.com
