THE Donald Trump and Joe Biden were, unsurprisingly, the winners of of yesterday’s “Super Tuesday” primaries in the US, with both men, however, facing their own challenges on the road to the US presidency.

Four things worth keeping from this election night:

Inevitable duel Trump-Biden

As expected, Super Tuesday ended with a series of sweeping victories for Donald Trump in the Republican primary, giving him a nearly insurmountable lead to win his party’s nomination for November’s presidential election.

The former president crushed his only challenger, Nikki Haley, sweeping nearly all but one of the 15 states at stake on this big election day, according to US media projections so far.

The proof of this is that the Republican didn’t even bother to mention his opponent in the statements he made after the provisional results, appearing completely absorbed in his rematch with Joe Biden and blatantly ignoring her.

So did the Democratic US president, targeting the real estate mogul overnight, accusing him in a statement of being “determined to destroy our democracy” and “focused on his own revenge and revenge.” .

Uncertainties about Nikki Haley

The only candidate who continues to compete with the super favorite of the Republicans, the former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, managed to win in yesterday’s contest in only one of the states that held yesterday’s primary elections, that of Vermont.

The former United States ambassador to the UN under Trump is trailing significantly against her opponent, who has so far won the vast majority of delegates counted in yesterday’s election. They will attend the Republican Party’s national convention this summer to nominate its official candidate for the November presidential election.

Under these circumstances will he remain in the race for the Republican nomination? The candidate, who has not made a public appearance so far since Super Tuesday, did not immediately react overnight, leaving her future in doubt.

Trump still has a battle ahead of him for votes

Although Donald Trump won almost everywhere yesterday, the evidence suggests that after the primaries, the necessary expansion of his electoral base will not be easy.

In the few swing states that will decide the outcome of the presidential election in November, Trump will need to gather the votes of moderate Republicans and independents, in addition to his very loyal supporters.

Polls at the exit from the polls, which took place yesterday, showed the size of the fight that the former president has in front of him.

In North Carolina, for example, 66% of Nikki Haley’s voters believe the billionaire is unfit, both mentally and physically, to be president, according to a CNN poll. And 81% of them say they will not automatically support the winner of their party’s primary.

This portion of the electorate is by no means negligible: it corresponds to about 30% of the Republican electorate. Donald Trump, surrounded by lawsuits, “should be worried about the unity of the Republican Party,” noted Karl Rove, a Republican consultant.

The war in Gaza is affecting the Biden campaign

Joe Biden, who is running for re-election, faces no serious challenger on his side of the Democratic Party, but the war in Gaza is affecting his campaign.

Yesterday initiative aimed at asking him to act on an immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave again affected his result in one state.

After Michigan last week, over 40,000 people threw white in Minnesota yesterday. Activists had called on voters to express their displeasure in this way in order to urge the Biden administration to end its support for Israel.

Minnesota, the US state with one of the country’s highest percentages of Muslim populations, therefore voted about 20% white, according to partial results released overnight – a “win” ” for this movement, according to the official of the union “Unaligned Minnesota” Asma Nizami.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that in the heart of the Pacific, in American Samoa, Jason Palmer, a completely unknown candidate, prevailed over Biden with 51 votes against 40 received by the current president.