“Big Tuesday” not so passionate of the American elections

An American media, referring to the achievements of the Republican and Democratic candidates in the presidential elections in this country in November, has analyzed the importance of “Great Tuesday” (tomorrow) in determining the continuation of their path in these competitions.

With the arrival of “Great Tuesday” in the US presidential election process, an American media reported in a report, despite the fact that neither the Democratic President of the United States, “Joe Biden”, nor the former Republican President of the United States, “Donald Trump”, that any The two will be their party’s presumptive candidates, this year, they don’t have to face a tough intra-party race, but Shrove Tuesday still matters.

CNN reported about this: Tuesday’s primaries may be the final chance for the fanciful and boring efforts of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to challenge Trump for the Republican Party nomination.

On Holy Tuesday, instead of a primary vote or caucuses, 15 states for Republicans and 16 states for Democrats will hold elections across the country in one day. On this day, more than a third of the Republican delegations Democratic boards compete to the same extent. Biden has not lost in this year’s competition and Trump has only lost in one case.

The primary ballot includes the first three states in alphabetical order, namely Alabama, Alaska and Arkansas. Other states include California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. Additionally, Big Tuesday marks the end of Democratic mail-in voting in Iowa and Democratic caucuses in the autonomous archipelago of American Samoa. .

On Shrove Tuesday 2016, Trump topped everyone in the primaries. Trump won 7 states that day, although he lost a big one like Texas. Unlike this year, among the electoral commissions in 2016, there was a more heated competition in which Trump won almost all the contests before Holy Tuesday.

Biden won 10 of the 14 contests on Big Tuesday 2020. This is despite the fact that this year, he did not face a close competition from the Democrats and it is expected that he will win all the races tomorrow.

The question for Republicans is whether or not Haley will be popular. He has won only one race, a primary in Washington, DC. Left behind at caucuses, he insists Republicans deserve a second option. Now the question is, will his possible defeat on Holy Tuesday cause him to be eliminated from the main competition?

Among Democrats, it seems that in Michigan, Biden is facing a wake-up call. He easily won the primary there, but more than 100,000 voters voted for “unaffiliated” candidates instead of Biden. “Unaffiliated” received the most votes in two electoral districts in Michigan. So far, Biden has failed in these two areas.

With the death toll in the Gaza war exceeding 30,000 people, Democratic voters have protested against Biden’s policies towards the Zionist regime in the primary voting in a state that has a strong population of Muslims and Arab Americans. He should try more decisively to establish a ceasefire between the Zionist regime and Hamas.

At the same time, none of the Democrats competing with Biden have gained much popularity, and Dean Phillips has failed to attract support in the states where the Biden campaign has been active. Marian Williamson, who was also a candidate in the 2020 elections, but withdrew from the competition before the start of voting, has not suspended her campaign in an unprecedented move.

Nevertheless, none of the candidates will have their work cut out for them on Holy Tuesday. Neither candidate will be able to win a majority of the party’s votes until a few days later on March 12 or 19, when both candidates are likely to exceed the “magic number” of the quorum. Trump must win the votes of 1,215 out of 2,429 party representatives, and Biden must win 1,968 party representative votes out of 3,934 representatives.

However, primary voting will continue until early June. The meeting of the Republican convention will not be held until July and for the Democrats until August.

Source: ISNA