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After a night of few surprises, a November match-up between Biden and Trump for the presidency seems inevitable
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- Full report: Haley wins surprise Vermont victory as Biden and Trump dominate
Niall Stanage at The Hill has assessed his winners and losers from Super Tuesday. In the winners column he put Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Pro-Palestinian Democrats, Rep Adam Schiff and American Samoa. Of the latter he said “the tiny territory made its voice heard to an outsize degree for the second election cycle in a row”. It handed Biden his only defeat of the night.
For him the losers were Nikki Haley for whom “any lingering flame of hope was snuffed out, and Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses have gone from a first-in-the-nation contest to, Stanage says, creating “no ripples at all”. He also nominates “Excitement for the American public” saying yesterday was “a snooze”. He concludes:
The overall outcome was in no doubt at all – and the wins for Haley in Vermont and the hitherto-unknown Palmer in American Samoa did nothing to change the broader contours. This, in turn, underlines the main paradox of this year’s race. Biden and Trump are going to secure their party nominations with ease, yet polls indicate millions of Americans look at that prospect of a 2020 rematch with grim resignation.
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