- Title: EXPLAINER: How Super Tuesday could be Haley's last stand in the 2024 race
- Date: 1st March 2024
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 29, 2024) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) UCLA POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR, LYNN VAVRECK, SAYING: "At some point Trump is going to announce a running mate. Usually that happens at the convention, but he does everything unconventionally and so who knows, maybe he's going to do that on Super Tuesday, maybe just after, you know
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- Keywords: 2024 Biden Campaign Haley. Politics Super Tuesday Trump
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- Story Text: Fifteen states and one U.S. territory will hold Republican nominating contests on Super Tuesday (March 5), the biggest day of voting when more than a third of delegates will be assigned in the battle to decide if Nikki Haley can stop frontrunner Donald Trump from winning the Republican presidential nomination.
Democrats are also scheduled to head to the polls for primaries and caucuses around the nation on March 5, but President Joe Biden is a shoo-in for the nomination with only one long-shot challenger remaining.
Haley has no clear path to beating Trump. But political science experts say this could be her last chance to at least slow the former president's path to the nomination - with primaries in more liberal states such as Virginia, Vermont, and Massachusetts offering some opportunities to close the gap with Trump, though not California, where Republican voters tend to be staunchly conservative.
Trump easily swept all five Republican nominating contests thus far in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, the U.S. Virgin Islands and South Carolina.
He has repeatedly called on Haley to drop out, which would set up a rematch of the 2020 election against Biden that — as Haley argues — polls show many Americans don't want.
Haley, who served as United Nations ambassador under Trump, is also seen as an alternative nominee if Trump's candidacy were to be derailed by his legal troubles — including four criminal indictments — or dropped out of the race for another reason.
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