Former US President Donald Trump triumphs on Super Tuesday, and is already setting his sights on the White House. The magnate stated this Tuesday that the results obtained in the Republican primaries held in fifteen states “are conclusive” and symbolize that he should be chosen as the Republican candidate. “They call it ‘Super Tuesday’ for a reason and it’s been big. There has never been such a conclusive result.. “It has been an incredible day and night,” she noted at a public event held in Palm Beach, Florida, at her famous Mar-a-Lago mansion.

Of the 15 states that held primaries this ‘Super Tuesday’, Trump has won in Texas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas. Vermont is the only state in which the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, his only rival, has surpassed himwhile the results of California, Utah and Alaska remain to be known.

In his celebration speech – shorter than usual – Trump was, as always, Trump, and started by talking about one of his favorite topics, immigration. “They want open borders and open borders are going to destroy our country. We need borders and we need free and fair elections,” said the 77-year-old politician, who to this day continues to sow doubts about the 2020 presidential election that Joe Biden won. Also this Tuesday he had harsh criticism against his foreseeable rival on November 5, and stated that thanks to the Democratic president of the United States he has received “a big beating in the last three years.”

“Our country has been sad” and that is why today’s victories are going to be “inspiring,” he maintained. “Let’s do something that no one has been able to do“, he added. Of course, he has also made reference to his own legal situation and has once again presented himself as a victim of a witch hunt by the Biden Government. “We have a country in which a politician uses weapons against his political opponent, it never happened here. It happens in other countries, but they are from the third world,” said the former president, who has four criminal trials against him and is accused of crimes such as bribery, illegal possession of classified documents or electoral interference.

Despite his scandals, the former president has managed to win more than 900 of the 1,215 necessary delegates to be elected his party’s candidate for president. Thus, he could declare himself a virtual presidential candidate in two weeks at most. Trump could mathematically obtain the nomination on the 12th, when a total of 161 delegates are at stake in four states, or on March 19, when five primaries are held, including those in the state of Florida, with 125 delegates at stake. On the 12th, four states will hold primaries: Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington. In the first two, with 59 and 19 delegates, these are distributed proportionally, while in the last two, with 40 and 43 delegates, if the winner obtains more than 50% of the votes, all are awarded.

Therefore, together with the 9 that Trump could add in the territory of Samoa in the caucuses on the 9th, it will be very likely that the former president will mathematically reach 1,215 that day. If some unexpected and unlikely surprise occurs, the former president would have to wait just a few more days. On the 15th, caucuses will be held in the Mariana Islands (9 delegates), on the 16th in Guam (9 delegates) and on the 19th another of the key dates on the primary calendar will take place, with elections in five states, including Florida, in which 414 delegates will be distributed.

Even so, Trump will always be the virtual candidate until he is officially named at the National Convention of the Republican Party to be held in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), from July 15 to 19, in which the delegates give their support to the candidate for president and vice president. The delegates whose support Trump has gained in the various primaries and caucuses will vote for him, officially name him, and thus the electoral campaign for the November 5 elections will begin. President Joe Biden, who has no rival to renew his mandate, is expected to be the contender to beat. According to the polls, the fight would be very close but the Republican has a slight advantage over the Democrat.

Biden consolidates himself as Democratic leader

For his part, the American president, Joe Biden, has seen his candidacy for this year’s presidential election strengthened this ‘Super Tuesday’ with incontestable victories, which further underline that he is advancing without Democratic rivals towards the November elections. Up to 15 states and one territory were called to the polls and there have been no surprises in any of them: the country’s media projected him as the winner just shortly after the respective closing of the polling stations.

Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Utah, Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands have held Democratic primaries. Additionally, Iowa has released vote-by-mail results. With this call, the Democrats assigned a total of 1,420 delegates. Biden has arrived at this appointment with 206, those already achieved in South Carolina, Nevada and Michigan, and he needed to reach 1,968 to guarantee his nomination at his party’s convention this August in Chicago.

Biden has stated that Trump is “determined to destroy” the country’s democracy. “He is determined to destroy our democracy and take away fundamental rights such as the ability of women to make their own decisions regarding health,” she indicated in a message evaluating the results of the primaries.