Live updates | Trump and Biden notch Super Tuesday wins that propel them closer to nominations

WASHINGTON — Here’s the thing about the presidential nomination contests: It’s actually about delegates, not just racking up state victories.

Keep tabs on which candidates are notching delates with this tracker. So far, Trump has a pretty commanding lead over Haley. But the latest totals still have him needing more than 900 delegates of the 1,215 he needs to get the nomination.

President Joe Biden needs 1,968 delegates to secure the Democratic nod, and he’s got 375 as of now.

BOUNTIFUL, Utah — As voters in other states across the Mountain West line up at the polls, Utah Republicans are doing things differently.

Thousands of voters are flooding into Millcreek Junior High School, one of 2,300 neighborhood caucus locations around the state where residents will debate the candidates as a group before casting votes in a preference poll. Voters are bringing plates of food to eat during the coming debates.

“We want to have good, strong political discourse tonight,” said Lisa Fifield, the Bountiful, Utah, caucus director.

Utah’s 40 delegates will be distributed proportionally between the candidates unless one receives over 50% of the vote, which would earn them all of the state’s delegates.

WASHINGTON — Jason Palmer defeated President Joe Biden in American Samoa, a tiny U.S. territory in the South Pacific. According to the local Democratic Party, Palmer won 51 votes and Biden won 40.

There were only six delegates up for grabs there in a contest that requires nearly 2,000, but it’s still a notable setback for an incumbent president. Palmer is a Baltimore-based investor.

This isn’t the first time that American Samoa has turned up surprising results in a primary. During the 2020 Democratic race, it was the only contest won by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor.

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WASHINGTON — The Associated Press was able to declare Biden and Trump the winners of Texas’ presidential primaries and Cruz the winner of the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, based on an analysis of initial vote returns from across the entire state.

At 9 p.m. EST, when the final polls closed in the state, over 100 counties had reported almost half a million total votes. The votes came from every major geographic region in the state, with the biggest number coming from the Houston and Dallas areas.

The winning candidates were winning throughout the state. Biden’s best region was in the eastern part of the state and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, while Trump and Cruz were both doing best in the eastern region and Houston areas.

AP compared places where votes have been reported to places where they have not and concluded that even if the trailing candidates exceeded expectations in the vote still to be counted, they couldn’t catch up with the leaders and therefore didn’t have a way to win.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is flying under the radar on Super Tuesday, looking ahead to his State of the Union address on Thursday. Biden was at the White House and did little official campaigning as the incumbent coasts toward his party’s nomination a second time. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that Biden would be “kept updated” throughout the evening. “He’ll be aware of what’s going on tonight as we see elections happening across the country,” she told reporters. “I just don’t have anything specific on that.” The low-key approach is part scheduling, as Biden spends hours in preparation sessions with top aides for Thursday’s big speech, and part by design, as he projects his focus is on the November race.

WASHINGTON — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, the only elected Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden in their party’s primary, isn’t coming close to winning anywhere on Tuesday — but he’s trying not to let it get him down.

“Congratulations to Joe Biden, Uncommitted, Marianne Williamson, and Nikki Haley for demonstrating more appeal to Democratic Party loyalists than me,” Phillips posted on X, formerly Twitter.

Phillips has remained in the race despite providing only token opposition to Biden and no real chance of challenging him nationally. His home state of Minnesota is among those holding a Democratic primary on Super Tuesday — but he isn’t expected to win there, either.

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WASHINGTON — The Associated Press was able to declare Trump and Biden the winners of their respective presidential primaries in Alabama at 8:45 p.m. EST as both continued to steamroll through Super Tuesday contests.

Alabama marked Biden’s 10th and Trump’s seventh victory of the night. Neither has lost a Super Tuesday state yet.

Biden was winning nearly all the votes reported at the time of the call and led in every region of the state. He was especially dominant in the Birmingham area and in the southern part of the state.

At the time of the call, Trump’s next-closest competitor was the “uncommitted” ballot option. He also was doing best in southern Alabama.

WASHINGTON — The Biden campaign is hoping that tonight’s results will clarify the choice for voters this November. It’s an all-but-certain rematch between the incumbent president and Trump.

Biden’s team is making an all-in wager that it can make the general election into a referendum on Trump. They’re betting that voters who rejected Trump in 2020 — and GOP candidates in 2022 and 2023 — will do so again this November, even if they have little enthusiasm for Biden.

It’s clear many voters dislike both Biden and Trump — but Biden’s team is hoping that those who dislike their choices at the ballot box will break their way.

WASHINGTON — The biggest night of the primary campaign is half over. So far, there haven’t been any surprises.

President Joe Biden has easily carried all the Democratic contests, winning Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Vermont.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump clinched Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Full results will take at least a few more hours. Voting in Alaska doesn’t end until 12 a.m. EST.

Although Biden and Trump are expected to be their party’s nominee, neither will be declared the “presumptive nominee” tonight. Trump won’t have enough delegates until March 12, and Biden will have to wait until March 19.

CHICAGO — The first major voting date on this year’s primary calendar passed without major issues Tuesday.

There were no specific, credible threats or deliberate nefarious activities as states across the country held Super Tuesday elections, said a senior official for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who insisted on anonymity to discuss the elections.

The official said they are aware of social media outages Tuesday that caused widespread login issues for a few hours across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms, but they are not aware of any election nexus.

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LITTLETON, Colo. — At a polling site in Colorado, 8-year-old Kaiah Ezell is with her mom selling Girl Scout cookies and encouraging people to vote.” We are a big American family,” said mom Ally Ezell, 26.

Ezell, bedecked in American flag pants and a shirt stamped with “Patriot,” confirmed they’ll take Venmo to a customer buying shortbread. “Did you get a chance to vote today?” Ezell asked the customer. They had not.

She voted for Trump because “I personally think that our economy and our country were in the best spot when he was president” she said, adding that, with a fiancé who’s a veteran, her top voting issue was “getting back to patriotism.”Kaiah bounced around the truck bed, digging out cookies for customers and calculating the change, but isn’t following politics much yet.

WASHINGTON — Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins endorsed Nikki Haley in her home state. But Donald Trump easily won its GOP primary regardless.

It’s a reminder of the ways in which Trump has nationalized politics. Collins is a five-term senator, but her opinion turns out to carry little weight on presidential matters with her own constituents.

WASHINGTON — Efforts to boost Black representation in Alabama were marred on Tuesday when more than 6,000 voters in the new 2nd Congressional District received postcards with incorrect voting information.

The postcards misidentified the voters’ district because of a “software glitch,” according to a county official. The official said anyone was still allowed to cast ballots for the right candidates when they went to their precincts.

Advocates expressed concern that the error could have discouraged turnout in the first election with new district maps.

WASHINGTON — Voters picked Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson to succeed the term-limited Gov. Roy Cooper. Their general election campaigns will show clear contrasts.

Stein would be the state’s first Jewish governor. The Harvard University-educated lawyer has an established focus on consumer rights.

Robinson is a former factory worker. As a city council member, he gave a viral speech in 2018 that catapulted him into public recognition and earned him an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. Already North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor, Robinson would also be the state’s first Black governor.

Polls have opened in Anchorage as Alaska Republicans choose their preferred party nominee for president. The polls opened at 3 p.m. local time – with school letting out at Grace Christian Church, causing some traffic headaches. Volunteer Rick Whitbeck of Anchorage held up a ballot that each voter will receive.

PALM BEACH, Fla.— Guests are jubilant and celebrating at Mar-a-Lago — a very different atmosphere from the fall of 2022 when Trump launched his third campaign for the White House in the same ornate ballroom with a staid announcement speech.

Trump was being blamed at the time for a slew of Republican losses and was widely seen as having an uphill path to the nomination. Now he is on the verge of clinching it — in record time.

WASHINGTON — It’s no surprise that President Joe Biden is notching easy victories in Super Tuesday’s primaries.

So far, The Associated Press has called Iowa, North Carolina, Vermont and Virginia with Biden. There are 12 additional states on Super Tuesday.

The Democrat is his party’s only major candidate, despite concerns among voters about the 81-year-old’s age. Biden has already spent the weeks leading up to the primary contests by focusing on his likely November opponent, former President Donald Trump, the 77-year-old Republican frontrunner.

Today’s results are likely to only intensify the rivalry between both men in what could be a long slog of a campaign. Biden has framed this race as a battle to protect democracy and constitutional values. The question is whether Biden can energize his voters for November.

Polls are closing in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Tennessee at 8 p.m. EST. Most polls are closing in Texas. Polls are closing in Arkansas at 8:30 p.m. EST.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The crowd has packed into Trump’s victory party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.

There’s a bar and passed hors d’oeuvres, including empanadas and baked brie cheese. Staff and supporters are among the crowd, which includes the rapper Forgiato Blow. Fox News is playing on screens set up around the ballroom.

The crowd was erupting into cheers when an announcement that former Republican Donald Trump won North Carolina’s Republican primary flashed on the screen.

WASHINGTON — California has Super Tuesday’s most hotly
anticipated and confusing primary contests.

Most states have separate voting for Democrats and Republicans, but California uses a “top two system.” That means the two candidates with the most votes advance to the general election, regardless of party.

So the big question hanging over the Senate race is whether a Republican finishes in the top two or if the general election features a faceoff between two Democrats.

The leading candidates are Republican Steve Garvey, a former baseball star, and Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff. It’s possible the Democrats split votes and Garvey ends up leading the primary.

WASHINGTON — The blame game over crime could determine who serves as Los Angeles County district attorney.

Democrat George Gascón, a progressive prosecutor elected after the murder of George Floyd, is fighting to hold onto his job after surviving two previous recall attempts.

He faces 11 challengers in today’s nonpartisan primary. The two candidates with the most votes will face off in the general election in November.

Gascón’s critics have highlighted a series of robberies at luxury stores to suggest that lawlessness has been sweeping through Los Angeles. Property crime rose from 2022 to 2023. Violent crime slipped, but it’s still above prepandemic levels.

WASHINGTON — The former U.N. ambassador has pegged her campaign to the biggest day of the primary season, crossing the country over the last several days to visit Super Tuesday states. But she is not holding any public events tonight. And she has no future campaign rallies listed on her website.

Her campaign says she’s spending election night in the Charleston, South Carolina, area and watching results come in with her staff. Says the campaign: “The mood is jubilant.”

WASHINGTON — Super Tuesday is the biggest moment of the primary campaign. Since contests are spread out across several time zones from Maine to Alaska, results will be rolling in for hours.

Here’s the big picture:

• Biden and Trump are the clear favorites to clinch their party’s nominations. However, neither will be declared the presumptive nominee tonight. Trump won’t have enough delegates until March 12, and Biden will have to wait until March 19.
• The primary calendars don’t line up, which can be confusing. For example, Iowa Democrats voted today even though Iowa Republicans held their caucus in January.
• Sometimes The Associated Press will be able to project a winner very quickly after voting is over. Read more about that process here.

Here’s when polls are closing:

• The first results came from Iowa at 5:50 p.m. EST. Next up are Vermont and Virginia at 7 p.m. EST, also when Republicans will begin caucusing in Alaska. Voting ends in North Carolina at 7:30 p.m. EST.
• A cascade of states — Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Tennessee — finish voting at 8 p.m. EST. Most polls will also close in Texas around that time, but some will finish later because the state spans two time zones.
• Arkansas polls close at 8:30 p.m. EST, then Colorado and Minnesota at 9 p.m. EST.
• Utah is holding caucuses for Republicans and a primary for Democrats. The caucuses begin at 9 p.m. EST and polls close at 10 p.m. EST.
• California polls close at 11 p.m. EST, and voting ends in Alaska at 12 a.m. EST.

PALM BEACH, Florida — Mar-a-Lago’s gilded ballroom, with its ornate crystal chandeliers and cherub friezes, has been set with rows of banquet chairs, cocktail tables dressed in ivory linens and more than a dozen American flags for Trump’s Super Tuesday night event. More than 100 members of the media are on site. Among those spotted so far: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“Being in space didn’t stop (O’Hara) and I from voting. Go vote today!” Moghbeli wrote.

According to NASA’s website, after an astronaut fills out an electronic absentee ballot aboard the space station, the encrypted document goes through a tracking and data relay satellite to a ground antenna at the White Sands Complex in New Mexico. From there, the ballot is sent to the Mission Control Center in Houston and forwarded to the county clerk’s office.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — North Carolina officials activated emergency robocalls Tuesday morning to correct misinformation from a country music radio station serving a western part of the state in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

State Board of Elections spokesperson Patrick Gannon said WKYK — which is based in Burnsville, North Carolina — shared incorrectly that election day precincts had closed and voters around Yancey County (population: 18,000) would have to hit the polls at the county board of elections office.

Gannon said the false information appeared “to be an honest, but unfortunate, mistake.”

Within 30 minutes of the radio report, the county’s emergency management office used a subscription-based public safety mass messaging system to issue accurate voting instructions. WKYK did not immediately respond to a voice message from The Associated Press seeking more information.

BOSTON — Marwa Osman, a 35-year-old content creator, says she voted “no preference” over Biden’s policy regarding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. She is opposed to sending any aid to Israel and wants the president to support a full ceasefire. “We supported Biden from the beginning and kind of feel betrayed by him.”

If the administration doesn’t change its policy toward the war, Osman says she is considering sitting out the November election.

“I don’t know what to do,” she said. “I’ll probably not vote or vote for an independent party. I just cannot have my vote in good conscience go to something that is aiding to kill innocent civilians.”

Super Tuesday is the first chance millions of Americans have to express their preferences for president. The sixteen states voting today represent a broad swath of the electorate, ranging from the highly educated and largely white residents of tiny Vermont to the more racially diverse and higher-income California.

Below, find a breakdown of Super Tuesday states by some key demographics:

Andy Stone, Meta’s head communications, acknowledged the issues on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company “resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Users reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts and feeds on the platform as well as Threads and Instagram were not refreshing. WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, appeared unaffected.

A senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters Tuesday that the agency was “not aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyberactivity nexus to the outage.”

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Whether they live in Tennessee or elsewhere, Swift tells people to check their polling places and times at vote.org.

Swift endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 and backed Democratic candidates in Tennessee in 2018 after breaking her longstanding refusal to discuss her political views.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she’s confident her former boss Donald Trump will win the Republican Party’s nomination and take back the White House in the November election.

Sanders served as White House press secretary for the former president. She cast her ballot at a Little Rock community center Tuesday morning with her husband, Bryan Sanders.

She told reporters after casting her ballot that, “This is a head to head matchup at this point between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and he’s the clear favorite, has all the momentum, and I feel really good about him winning again in November.”

Sanders also says she wasn’t surprised by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Monday restoring Trump to primary ballots.

She said the fact that it was a 9-0 decision is “very telling” and added that “it should be a signal to stop trying to use our courts for political purposes.”

Sanders declined to say who she voted for in two of the top races on the ballot in her home state, a pair of Supreme Court races that could give her two additional appointments to the court.

Democrats and Republicans vote on who they want to run for president and other offices. And then once those votes are tallied, delegates are awarded.

Delegates are people chosen to represent their community at their political party’s presidential nominating convention. They are the ones who actually select the candidate to represent their party on the November ballot.

Candidates need to win a majority of them to pick up their party’s nomination. And no other date has more of those delegates at stake than Super Tuesday.

On the Republican side, 854 of 2,429 delegates — more than 35% are up for grabs. About 36%, or 1,420 delegates, are in play for Democrats.

Nobody will become the presumptive nominee after Tuesday’s primaries but it’ll be close.

Criminal trials are looming over Trump’s 2024 campaign, but according to AP VoteCast surveys in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Republican primary voters mostly don’t believe he did something illegal.

Between 26% and 38% of voters in the early contests think that Trump has done something illegal in at least one of the three major cases against him: The case involving the classified documents found at his Florida home, the Washington, D.C. case involving his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, or the Georgia case involving Trump’s alleged attempt to interfere in the vote count in the 2020 presidential election.

The remaining voters think he either did something unethical but not illegal, or that he did nothing wrong.

A new AP-NORC poll shows that few Americans see improvements in their own lives or the country as a whole over the past three years. More than half of U.S. adults say the national economy (57%) is somewhat or much worse off than before Biden took office in 2021, and a similar share (55%) say the country is somewhat or much worse off.

Americans are slightly less pessimistic about their own situations, but 41% say that they and their families are somewhat or much worse off than before Biden became president.

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AP VoteCast surveys of early primary and caucus voters found that about one-third of voters in the Republican contests in South Carolina and Iowa correctly said that Joe Biden was legitimately elected during the 2020 presidential election. About 6 in 10 said, incorrectly, that he was not legitimately elected.

In New Hampshire, where the electorate is less conservative, about half of voters who participated in the GOP primary agreed with the untrue statement that Biden was not legitimately elected.

The highest profile state race in California is the one to succeed the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

There’s a crowded field of candidates that include Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey, a former baseball star.

But, confusingly, there are two primary elections on the ballot to replace Feinstein. One is to fill the remaining months of her current term and the other is for a full six-year term starting in January 2025.

Keep in mind that California has a “top-two” primary system in which all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party, and the top two finishers advance to the general election.

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According to AP VoteCast surveys of voters in the early Republican contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, 6 in 10voters in both the South Carolina Republican primary and GOP Iowa caucuses consider themselves supporters of MAGA. Half of those in New Hampshire also identified with the movement.

There is significant — but not total — overlap between Trump voters and MAGA supporters: In South Carolina, 82% of voters who said they cast a ballot for Trump also identify with the MAGA movement, compared to 21% of those who said they voted for Haley.

Spoiler alert! Don’t read on if you want to be surprised by who will likely win today’s primaries.

Biden is the incumbent and faces only token opposition in the Democratic race. On the Republican side, Donald Trump has won nearly every primary so far, and is expected to win big on Tuesday, too.

Of course, there’s always the possibility for an upset. Nikki Haley is still in the race to be the Republican presidential nominee, but she’s facing tough contests in states where she’s struggled to win support. Biden is far and away leading over Democratic challengers.

But even though we think we know what will happen, neither Trump nor Biden will be able to claim the “presumptive nominee” title yet. The earliest that could happen is March 12 for Trump and March 19 for Biden.

Normally, it’s a big day that can make-or-break a candidate.

For example, in 2020, Joe Biden was basically counted out of the race after dismal showings in early primaries. But it was this swift and stunning comeback on Super Tuesday that really gave everyone a jolt. He ran the board, winning 10 of the 14 states. Other candidates dropped out out of the race after his wins. And you know what happened after that.

But that was then. This year there’s not much of a chance for something weird and wild. For the Democrats, Biden is the incumbent and faces only token opposition.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump has won all but one Republican primary so far, and is expected to win big on Tuesday, too.

On the eve of Super Tuesday, the Republican frontrunner sat for a lengthy interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network, a Trump-supporting online broadcaster. Trump touted all his wins thus far in the GOP primary contest and said of his popularity in the party that there is something “really fantastic happening out there.”

Trump largely repeated many of the points he makes at his campaign rallies, including false claims that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.”

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According to the AP VoteCast survey of GOP primary voters in South Carolina, Haley did well among people who have higher levels of education and moderates — neither of which is a very large or powerful group within the GOP electorate.

Even more limiting — about 2 in 10 of Haley’s supporters in South Carolina said they’re Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party, and more than 4 in 10 voted for Biden in 2020.

Those are not typical GOP voters.

In the Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina Republican primaries and caucuses, AP VoteCast surveys found that immigration emerged as the top issue for voters, beating out the economy and foreign policy concerns.

Trump’s hardline policies and rhetoric on immigration are popular among early contest voters. Between 79% and 88% of voters in the Republican contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina say they support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Around 7 in 10 early state voters also said that immigrants in the U.S. today are doing more to hurt than help the country.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Sunday she no longer feels bound by a pledge that required all GOP contenders to support the party’s eventual nominee in order to participate in the primary debates.

The Republican National Committee had made the pledge a prerequisite for all candidates, and nearly every major contender signed, except for Donald Trump, the current front-runner, who skipped the debates.

When Haley, Trump’s lone remaining major challenger for the nomination, was asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether she was compelled to honor that commitment, she said, “No. I think I’ll make what decision I want to make.”

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About 4 in 10 Democrats (44%) say the U.S. is spending “too little” on aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia, up from 17% in November, according to a new AP-NORC poll. The share of Democrats who say the U.S. is spending “too much” (17% now, from 32% in November) or “about the right amount” (38% now, from48% in November) has dropped over the same period.

Republicans and Independents still tend to want to send less aid: 55% of Republicans and 45% of Independents think the U.S. is spending “too much” on assistance to Ukraine.

On Super Tuesday, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency is going to provide some back up to state and local election officials who are facing a long list of security challenges including the threat of cyberattacks waged by hostile foreign governments.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — known as CISA — is standing up an election operations center to bring together federal, state and local election officials and the private sector. The idea is to share real-time threat information.

After the 2016 election, the nation’s voting systems were designated as critical infrastructure on par with the nation’s banks, nuclear power plants and dams. That means state election officials can now receive security clearances and federal resources such as cybersecurity and security reviews.

Candidates who are about to win their party nominations generally massage their messaging and try to emphasize points that appeal to a broader audience. Not Donald Trump.

The former president has doubled down on the incendiary rhetoric that fires up his base but alienates wide swaths of voters. On Saturday, he suggested President Joe Biden was trying to “overthrow” the United States with his border policies.

He’s compared himself in recent weeks to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison, and suggested Black people like him better because he faces prosecution in four separate cases.

His aides say they’re modifying their strategy and tactics for the general election and a likely Biden rematch but won’t try to change what Trump says.“Donald Trump is Donald Trump. That’s not going to change,” senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita said. “Our job is not to remake Donald Trump.”

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In the wake of the Supreme Court decision Monday that allows Trump to remain on the ballot, she added to her well-rehearsed campaign speech, “I’ll defeat Donald Trump fair and square. But I want him on the ballot.”

Haley’s more wholesale blaming of Trump for recent Republican losses shows how far she’s ventured in the past two months. Her sharpest criticism of the former president used to be that “chaos follows him everywhere.”

But from a small-business warehouse in Spring, Texas, she rattled off Republican setbacks in swing states, the Republican National Committee and Congress that have taken place since Trump seized the party’s national mantle.

It’s a long, long way from the former Trump appointee who said she wouldn’t run against him.

Former President Donald Trump gained a clear win at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, which unanimously ruled that states don’t have the ability to bar him — or any other federal candidates — from the ballot under a rarely-used constitutional provision that prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.

The decision shuts down a push in dozens of states to end Trump’s candidacy through a clause in the 14th Amendment, written to prevent former Confederates from serving in government after the Civil War.

But it may open the door to further electoral uncertainty, exposing more state officials to disqualification under the provision and setting up a constitutional showdown should Trump win the election.

Facing four separate criminal trials, Trump’s legal peril may just be beginning. So is the Supreme Court’s role in that process.

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It’s traditionally the biggest day nationwide for primary elections and caucuses before the actual Election Day in November.

Until now, only one or two states hold primaries on the same day. But this Tuesday, voters in 16 different states and one territory (Get it? “super” Tuesday) will be choosing who they want to run for president. Some states are also choosing who should run for governor or senator for their state, and some district attorneys, too.