Super Tuesday Winners and Losers-Presidential Edition
Super Tuesday’s dust has settled, and the Presidential winners and losers are now clear.
Overall, the biggest winner was Donald J. Trump. He dominated the night, winning every state primary except Vermont, and the Utah caucus. With 1060 of the 1215 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination, President Trump is all but certain to be the party’s nominee.
Trump won every county in numerous states, including Alabama, California and Texas. He’s now outperformed Joe Biden in 14 states: Alabama (Trump 486,883, Biden 165,567), Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Nikki Haley was the biggest Republican loser, only winning Vermont (probably because of cross-over Democrat votes) and the District of Corruption. Yes, that’s right--the Swamp recognized one of their own and voted for her in droves. Her 12.92% of the vote in Alabama probably had a few Democrats crossing over as well, but it wasn’t nearly enough to come close to Trump’s 83.3%.
Apparently, Haley’s Never Trump donors had enough on Tuesday, because Haley suspended her campaign on Wednesday. Bitter witch that she is, she refused to endorse Trump, but did say that she wished him well. She also expressed a desire to continue to be involved in the convention, and CBS described her as the current “standard bearer for traditional Republican values” now that Mitch McConnell is stepping down.
In other words, she’s the new leader of the RINO wing of the Uniparty Establishment. Need I say more?
Haley’s 91 delegates cost her donors more than $110 million, which makes the price per delegate better than Ron DeSantis’ 9 delegates. Since that’s money that can’t be used to attack President Trump between now and November, I consider it money well spent. I’m also thankful that not one thin dime of it was MY money!
Technically, Joe Biden was a big winner Tuesday, because he was anointed the winner in every state where the Democrats bothered to let people mark ballots. Looking deeper, Biden’s numbers have to be worrying his puppeteers. He’s the first incumbent President to lose a primary in 44 years. Granted, it was in American Samoa, but it confirms that Biden is on track to replace Jimmy Carter as the Worst President in History.
That wasn’t the worst news Joe got on Tuesday. In Minnesota, nearly 19% (about 46,000) of voters chose “uncommitted.” In Michigan, it was 13% (101,000). In North Carolina, where Trump outscored Biden 784,279--604,201, 88,000 (13%) of Democrats chose “no preference” over their alleged leader. These are primarily Muslim voters who are angry with Biden’s support for Israel over the Palestinians and vigorously object to Democrats forcing graphic sexual materials into schools in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
A question no one can answer at this time is “will this matter come November?” Muslims overwhelmingly supported Biden in 2020, and they could make the difference in close races--or make the Dems have to work much harder to steal this election. Democrats as a whole have to be worried because they’re also facing AIPAC’s war chest. AIPAC has $100 million set aside for attacking candidates who aren’t sufficiently devoted to Israel, and Biden will have negative coat-tails as it is. Few down-ballot Democrats want to be in the position of defending Biden’s inflation, economy, woke agenda, border invasion AND Gaza policies against buckets of AIPAC money and highly motivated pro-Trump Republicans.
The most amusing part of Tuesday evening and Wednesday was watching CNN and MSNBC try to “explain” the results to their core audience of Trump Derangement Syndrome sycophants and (allegedly “useful”) idiots. One exit poll, in particular, seemed to make the CNN talking heads choke: the number of previous Trump or Biden voters who plan to vote for “their guy” again in November. For Trump, that’s 97%, as you’d expect. Trump’s base is as solid as a rock despite the Left’s best efforts. Joe Biden, however, only has 85% of his previous voters who plan to stay loyal to him. That’s a problem for old Joe and Cackling Kamala, given their hideous record on the economy, the border, world affairs and everything else.
A lot can change between now and November. The Left (and Nikki Haley) still hopes some of the lawfare against Trump gets him taken off the ballot somehow. Biden is one slip and fall on the steps of Air Force One away from a hip screw, the 25th Amendment and President Kamala. But, as things now stand, we’re looking at a Biden/Trump rematch in a few months.
At least the debates won’t be boring.
(Numbers cited are best available as of this writing)
