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Super Tuesday, the biggest day so far in the 2024 race for the White House, is here – and it is shaping up to be most divisive.
A rematch between US president Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, is looking most likely.
This is traditionally the biggest day in the US for primary elections and caucuses before the actual Election Day in November. Get it? It is ‘Super’ Tuesday.
Democrats and Republicans in 16 states and one US territory vote on who they want to run for president and other offices.
Both Biden and Trump won California, Alabama, Colorado, Maine, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts.
Biden also won the Democratic primaries in Utah, Vermont and Iowa.
Meanwhile, Trump’s last major rival, Nikki Haley won Vermont, denying him a full sweep.
But the former president carried other states that might have been favourable to her such as Virginia, Massachusetts and Maine, which have large swathes of moderate voters like those who have backed her in previous primaries.
Not enough states will have voted until later this month for Trump or Biden to formally become their parties’ presumptive nominees.
But the primary’s biggest day made their rematch a near-certainty.
Both continue to dominate their parties despite facing questions about age and neither having broad popularity across the general electorate.
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