Super Tuesday changes everything

Super Tuesday changes everything
By Terry A. Hurlbut
Super Tuesday played out two days ago, over fifteen States. Donald J. Trump gained at least 758 delegates, to move within striking distance of a mathematical clinch of the nomination. His rival, Ambassador Nikki Haley, received 46 delegates, most in States no one (yet) expects Trump to carry. But by morning, all that ceased to matter – because Nikki Haley bowed out of the race. But she refuses to endorse President Trump, the only one of his now-defeated nomination rivals to so refuse. Anyone who expects her to go home and sulk for the rest of the year, has forgotten the time-honored aphorism about the fury of women scorned. Or about who’s pulling her strings.
The Super Tuesday sweep-stakes
Before Super Tuesday began, Amb. Haley captured all 19 delegates in the District of Columbia primary on Sunday (March 3). Trump dubbed her “Queen of the Swamp” after that showing. The next day (March 4), he captured all 29 delegated in the North Dakota caucus.
Super Tuesday saw primaries and caucuses in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. (American Samoa held its Democratic caucus today and will hold Republican caucuses on Friday.) This schedule shows what contests have taken place, and still remain. This delegate tally sheet shows which candidates have how many delegates, in the order of Republican contests.
Nikki Haley swept only one contest: the Vermont Primary, for 9 delegates. (Another 8 remain to be allocated.) Her other delegate awards came from Arkansas (1), Colorado (11), Minnesota (12), North Carolina (7), and Virginia (6). Whereas Trump received all allocated delegates from Alabama, Alaska, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.
How Nikki won anywhere
The Town of Ashland, in Virginia’s Hanover County, presents a typical case of how Nikki Haley could win anything. Ashland is home to Randolph-Macon College, where the politics are as leftist as they come. Moreover, most town residents are just as leftist in their thinking. The last State-wide Republican to carry Ashland was Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.). He won after former Gov. Terence McAuliffe actually said parents surrender their rights at the school perimeter. Democrats have carried Ashland in every State-wide contest since, and also in U.S. Senate, State Senate, House of Delegates, Board of Supervisors, and other local races. In short, Ashland is a Democratic town.
Yet primary participation in one precinct (Ashland downtown) consisted of 102 Democratic votes and 286 Republican votes. The final tally in the Republican primary was:
Candidate
Votes
Donald J. Trump
161
Nikki Haley
121
Ron DeSantis
4
These results can have only one explanation. Substantial numbers of Democrats – perhaps more than half the Democrats living in Ashland – crossed over into the Republican primary to vote for Haley. Virginia does not enforce Party voting patterns in primaries. That’s why Virginia Republicans nominate their candidates in State and District conventions, or “firehouse primaries” (unassembled caucuses), whenever possible. But the law provides for Presidential preference primaries, which, by definition, are open. So for Democrats to “gimmick” the Republican primary is absurdly simple. Yet despite that, Nikki Haley could achieve no better result than this, in a Democratic town! (Except, as noted, in Vermont and D.C.)
Nikki Haley suspends campaign
In fact, the only victories Nikki Haley achieved on Super Tuesday were from Democratic crossover in Democratic States and Districts. She needed to achieve much broader-based victories than that – and as Ashland illustrates, she failed. The only places where she did well in Virginia, according to The Republican Standard, were:
• Northern Virginia (Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax County),
• The City of Richmond, and
• Albemarle County, which surrounds the City of Charlottesville – home of the University of Virginia.
The first clue that Amb. Haley would suspend her campaign actually came Tuesday morning. The Associated Press reported that her schedule from Tuesday night forward was empty.
By 9:05 p.m. Eastern Time, with defeats racking up and California still voting, Nikki Haley had decided to quit. (Source: Associated Press.) She in fact did so at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to The Wall Street Journal. Laura Loomer shared a short clip:
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1765394947681718653
Cullen Linebarger at The Gateway Pundit carried this summary of her remarks. Amb. Haley touted old-line Republican positions, including especially intervention in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. She also asked Trump to court those who supported her. That’s a strange thing to ask – because her support came from Democrats who would not have supported her in November. (In fact, they said so!) Moreover, she somehow interpreted an aphorism by Margaret Thatcher to justify that request.
Jim Hoft, editor-in-chief of TGP, carried a full transcript.
https://rumble.com/v4hlt05-nikki-haley-suspends-campaign-vows-to-support-ukraine-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
Trump consolidates his victory
Donald Trump, for his part, was declaring victory within hours of the closing of the Eastern Time polls. But he wasn’t talking about Nikki Haley, but about Joe Biden. In fact he repeated an incredible story about 325,000 migrants flying into America from abroad at federal government expense. Jim Hoft broke that story shortly after polls opened, citing The Daily Mail.
https://rumble.com/v4hj2yi-trump-super-tuesday-victory-speech-joe-biden-is-the-worst-president-in-the-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
(A furious Elon Musk, replying to that report, accused the administration of flying in reliable Democrat voters.)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764979672129909177
Soon after Nikki Haley announced her suspension, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Minority Floor Leader, finally endorsed Trump. This from a Senator who once said he would never speak to Donald Trump again.
It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States. It should come as no surprise that, as nominee, he will have my support.
I look forward to the opportunity of switching from playing defense against the terrible policies the Biden administration has pursued to a sustained offense geared towards making a real difference in improving the lives of the American people.
Cullen Linebarger, quoting a fundraising link, carried Trump’s response to Haley’s speech. Trump called for a united effort to defeat Joe Biden, and now seems reluctant to mention Haley at all.
But Trump also issued an immediate challenge to Joe Biden, on Truth Social.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112050574571343856
It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People. Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE! The Debates can be run by the Corrupt DNC, or their Subsidiary, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). I look forward to receiving a response. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
After Super Tuesday, what next?
Nikki Haley obviously prepared to quit the race as voting on Super Tuesday was beginning. Losing every primary except the Vermont Primary should have made no difference. (She was never going to win a caucus, which by definition is closed.) If she had the money, she could have stayed for next Tuesday’s primaries in Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington State. And stayed for many more primaries and caucuses to come.
So why hasn’t she? Possibly because her real role was to have enough pledged delegates to offer herself as an alternative. On April 25, the petition of Trump v. United States will come to oral argument before the Supreme Court. That case will decide whether Trump enjoys immunity from prosecution for the things he actually said on January 6, 2021. (What he actually said, and what overwrought Secretaries of State like Jena Griswold of Colorado misquote him as saying, are two different messages.) The shadowy megadonors who gave Haley her orders, still think they can bring Trump to trial before Election Day. When they find out they won’t be able to do that, they will attempt an assassination. (They could even, like the fictitious Sen. John Yerkes Iselin (R-N.Y.) and his wife Eleanor in The Manchurian Candidate, attempt an assassination at the Convention.)
Publicly, Trump can say nothing else than what he has already said. Super Tuesday turned out to decide the nomination. But privately, the fight might not end so easily, and he should remember that.
Link to:
Schedule and spreadsheet:
https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2024-primary-schedule/
https://www.270towin.com/2024-republican-nomination/polls/delegate-totals-by-candidate

Video: Nikki Haley suspends:
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1765394947681718653
https://rumble.com/v4hlt05-nikki-haley-suspends-campaign-vows-to-support-ukraine-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6

Transcript of Nikki Haley’s speech:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/nikki-haley-suspends-campaign-vows-promote-ukraine-refuses/

Video: Trump’s victory speech:
https://rumble.com/v4hj2yi-trump-super-tuesday-victory-speech-joe-biden-is-the-worst-president-in-the-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6

Elon Musk on the immigration replacement plan:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764979672129909177

Trump challenging Biden to debates:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112050574571343856

Declarations of Truth X feed:
https://twitter.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:
https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/

Conservative News and Views:
https://cnav.news/

Clixnet Media
https://clixnet.com/