What’s Super Tuesday? Well, it might be the most important election for Americans have before Election Day in November.
Today, voters in sixteen states and the territory of Samoa, will be heading to the polls- resulting in the biggest primary election, including caucuses, before November.
Today’s voters can be the definitive voice in deciding the primaries.
Gregg Johnson: If a candidate doesn’t do well, on Super Tuesday, they have essentially zero chance of becoming the nominee.
That was Gregg Johnson, a political scientist at Valparaiso University in Indiana. As he tells us, Super Tuesday is usually the clearest indication for each party’s presidential nomination. But he also tells us a bit more about why 2024′s Super Tuesday is not as super as previous years.
Johnson: Super Tuesday is perhaps not quite so super simply because there is an incumbent Democratic president and the past president of the Republican Party, or past president who led the Republican Party is running for reelection and basically has very little opposition. So barring something extremely unusual, as in a meteor hits the earth, Donald Trump and and Joe Biden will sweep the states today.
It’s no secret that Biden and Trump are the frontrunners for their parties. In fact, they’re already leading their respective races.
Over one-third of delegates for both Republicans and Democrats are up for grabs. The Republican presidential nominee needs to get 1215 delegates today. The Democrat presidential nominee needs 1968.
Both Trump and President Biden are expected to cinch the nominations of their respective parties.
They face no serious opposition in their races. Nikki Haley is still holding on in the Republican primaries, but she’s barely trailing Trump, with a little over 40 delegates today. Biden on the other hand faces a wave of “uncommitted” voters protesting the war in Gaza- he has not commented on the matter.
Trump could get the Republican Party’s nomination as soon as March 12 and Biden could get the Democrat’s nomination by March 19th.