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Super Tuesday live updates | Haley is out while Biden and Trump nearly sweep their races

President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, were looking to all but clinch their party’s nominations as both are heavily favored in each of the 15 states and one territory holding Super Tuesday primaries

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Nikki Haley: After notching her first primary win earlier in the night, the former U.N. ambassador is planning to end her presidential campaign, leaving Donald Trump as the final major Republican candidate.
California Senate race: Steve Garvey and Adam Schiff are set to face off in the California senate race.
Results: The first polls closed at 1 p.m. ET. Follow the results as they come in.

Last week, the university administration gave protestors an ultimatum to disperse. But that deadline came and went.Mayor Muriel Bowser has confirmed that police declined the university’s request to intervene. Bowser said there was no violence that needed to be interrupted.“Mayor Bowser has let down the city of Washington,” Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds said. “The mayor is weak in the face of foolishness.”The congressional committee plans a hearing next week on the district government’s response to the protest at George Washington University.

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AP Race Call: Donald Trump wins Florida

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Donald Trump took a significant step toward election on Tuesday with a win in Florida, returning the state and its 30 electoral votes.

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The first is Donald Trump, whose attacks on Schiff helped turn him into a Democratic hero. (Trump holds a grudge because Schiff helped lead his first impeachment.)

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The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” (AP video by Daniel Niemann)

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Sunlight bursts through a cloud over the wreckage of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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An Argentinian who was caught in the Israel-Hamas war is greeted by relatives as he arrives at the airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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FILE — Margot Robbie arrives at a photo call for the movie “Barbie,” June 25, 2023, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. In Quotes of the Year, a Yale Law School librarian’s list of the most notable quotes of 2023, Robbie is quoted: “Do you guys ever think about dying?” during her role in the 2023 motion picture “Barbie.” (2023)(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

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FILE —Taylor Swift arrives at the world premiere of the concert film “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” Oct. 11, 2023, in Los Angeles. In Quotes of the Year, a Yale Law School librarian’s list of the most notable quotes of 2023, Swift is quoted: “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me,” in the revised lyrics of the song “Karma,” Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

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WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Dec. 1, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Professionals Guild and the Society of Single Professionals announced a Bay Area New Year’s Eve Party for singles and couples at the Chicken Pie Shop and bar in Walnut Creek on Dec. 31, 2023. This East Bay New Year’s Eve party includes an optional New Year’s Eve Dinner, DJ dancing, a Balloon Drop, and a Champagne Toast followed by more dancing.

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FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo people watch as the sun sets from the Presidio in San Francisco. The Social Security Administration adjusts its benefits payments each year to reflect changes in the cost of living. The new year will bring a 3.2% increase, much smaller than last year’s 8.7% raise. Even if you’re decades away from retirement, the annual cost of living adjustment can help you predict your potential future payments so you can plan accordingly. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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A 40-year-old poses for a photo after an interview in Saint Louis, Senegal, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. She said she had to resort to prostitution last year after her husband left the city and cut contact. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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No Rest for the Wicked will be released in Early Access on PC (via Steam) in the first quarter of calendar 2024 during Take-Two’s Fiscal Year 2024, with a full release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC planned for some time after Early Access. Check out the official trailer, which premiered during this year’s The Game Awards, on YouTube. (Photo: Business Wire)

California primary outcome clears a path for Schiff to ascend to the U.S. Senate

California Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) with his wife Eve Schiff, and their daughter Alexa ‘Lexi’ Schiff, left, address members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, IATSE at their Union Hall in Burbank, Calif., Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. Two weeks ago, Schiff launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate, raising $1.6 million in chiefly small-dollar donations. Schiff was quickly endorsed by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and 40 percent of the California Democratic congressional delegation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

If Adam Schiff wins a U.S. Senate seat in California in November, he’ll probably have two Republicans to thank.

The first is Donald Trump, whose attacks on Schiff helped turn him into a Democratic hero. (Trump holds a grudge because Schiff helped lead his first impeachment.)

The second is Steve Garvey, the former baseball star who decided to run for Senate this year. Garvey won enough votes to prevent another Democrat — either Katie Porter or Barbara Lee — from advancing to the general election in November.

Given Democrats’ advantage in California, the primary outcome clears a path for Schiff to ascend from the House to the Senate.

In case you missed it: Trump’s estate was packed for a party

Among those attending Trump’s Super Tuesday remarks at Mar-a-Lago were staff and supporters, including the rapper Forgiato Blow and former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn.

The crowd erupted as Fox News, playing on screens around the ballroom, announced that the former president had won North Carolina’s GOP primary.

One way to read Haley’s Vermont victory

Vermont was once a stronghold of old-guard Republicanism, exclusively electing GOP candidates to statewide office for more than a century. But the state that handed Haley her only win on Super Tuesday long ago ceded that reputation.

Now Vermont, which last swung for a Republican in a presidential contest in 1988, is perhaps better known for progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, the jam band Phish and a crunchy strain of back-to-earth lifestyle.

So, while Vermont handed Haley her first statewide victory, the state itself is decidedly not in step with Trump and the modern Republican Party.

Democratic Party of Hawaii holds presidential caucus

Democrats in Hawaii were scheduled to vote Wednesday on their party’s nominee for the president.

There has been little visible campaigning in the islands for the presidential race but incumbent President Joe Biden has a large advantage in the party’s caucus. Others on the ballot include U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips and self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson.

Adrian Tam, the interim chairperson of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, noted Biden’s success in states like Michigan where party contests have already been held.

“The American people really do have confidence in President Biden’s leadership. So, as expected, he does have the upper hand when it comes to our upcoming caucus,” Tam said. Even so, he urged party members to participate.

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Most House candidates who won primaries are guaranteed seats in Congress

Super Tuesday is so vast that there were primaries for more than one-quarter of all seats in the House of Representatives — 115 of 438. But only eight of those seats are likely to be competitive in November.

That astonishing statistic comes from Michael Li, a redistricting expert at the Brennan Institute for Justice in New York. That means that most House candidates who won primaries Tuesday are guaranteed seats in Congress, just for securing the votes of the most motivated members of their parties.

N.C. Governor’s race could echo Biden v. Trump

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson easily won the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary. His incendiary rhetoric — he’s called Hillary Clinton a “heifer” and Michelle Obama a man — ensures a hotly contested general election in the crucial swing state that could spill over into the presidential race.

Robinson had no prior experience in public office before his 2020 election — and it shows.

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson listens during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 in Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on Tuesday again declined to apologize for remarks he made in June criticizing sexual education in public schools and likening gay and transgender people to “filth.”(AP Photo/Bryan Anderson)

He blasted the action hero movie “Black Panther” in 2018 as a “satanic Marxist production” made by a “secular Jew,” using a Yiddish slur for black people. He faced calls to resign in 2021 after likening gay and transgender people to “filth.”

His brash style earned plaudits from Trump, who on Sunday called Robinson “better than Martin Luther King” while offering his “complete and total endorsement.”

But it is also likely to motivate Democrats in the state to turn out in November to support state Attorney General Josh Stein — while raising oodles of advertising dollars to use Robinson’s own words against him.

Biden & Iowa: 4th time’s the charm

On his fourth try, Joe Biden finally won Iowa.

For decades, Biden had been rejected by its voters, from his first abortive run in the 1988 cycle to 2020, when he finished a distant fourth. In 2008, he won less than 1% of the caucus vote.

This time, Iowa wasn’t first and it was a primary, not a caucus, and Biden won easily.

His victory Tuesday came only after he was already an incumbent president — and after the state had been stripped of its prized leadoff role and voted along with the masses.

Haley is not planning to endorse Trump, sources say

Nikki Haley is expected to suspend her campaign for presidency in an announcement on Wednesday morning, according to three people with direct knowledge. When she does, she is not planning to endorse Donald Trump, said the people who spoke on condition of anonymity. Instead, she is expected to encourage Trump to earn the support of the coalition of moderate Republicans and independent voters who supported her.

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Even in her defeat, Haley’s campaign made history

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks to voters at a town hall campaign event, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, in Urbandale, Iowa. Social media posts have falsely asserted that Haley “changed” her name for political reasons. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Nikki Haley leaves the 2024 presidential contest having made history as the first woman to win a Republican primary contest. She beat Trump in the District of Columbia on Sunday and in Vermont on Tuesday.

She had insisted she would stay in the race through Super Tuesday and crossed the country campaigning in states holding Republican contests. Ultimately, she was unable to knock Trump off his glide path to a third straight nomination. She announced Wednesday she was dropping out.

Haley’s allies note that she exceeded most of the political world’s expectations by making it as far as she did.

Biden to Haley voters: Trump doesn’t want you, but I do

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President Joe Biden is making an explicit appeal to Nikki Haley supporters to back him November. He is arguing that Donald Trump “doesn’t want” them.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, Feb. 13, 2024, in Washington. Biden is going to visit East Palestine, Ohio, over a year after a deadly explosive fire there caused by a 2023 train derailment. The president’s visit on Friday to the village of 5,000 is at the invitation of its mayor. The White House says Biden waited for the right moment to visit East Palestine but he has faced criticism that he was ignoring the victims. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden was reacting to the news that Haley, a former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor was leaving the Republican primary race by saying. He said: “Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters.”

Biden does, though. “I want to be clear,” he said in a statement. “There is a place for them in my campaign.”

The president added that he knew “there is a lot we won’t agree on” but that there would be common ground on core issues like preserving U.S. democracy and the rule of law and defending NATO.

Nikki Haley says she will suspend her presidential campaign. What does that mean?

When Nikki Haley said she would withdraw from the 2024 presidential race following her underwhelming showing on Super Tuesday, she did so using a phrase that would seem at odds with the finality of her announcement.

The former South Carolina Governor and U.N. ambassador said she would “suspend” her campaign. Not end, not conclude, not terminate – suspend.

Haley is hardly the first candidate to reach for the term. There are a number of reasons candidates do so. And one of the big ones has a lot to do with money.

Under federal election law, a candidate who has filed to run for office technically remains one until the after the election. But by declaring that they will “suspend” a campaign, a candidate is signaling to donors – both to their loyal supporters, as well as those who are backing their rivals -- that they are shifting to the next phase. After a spirited campaign, that often includes the need to retire outstanding debts.

But the use of the term “suspend” also adheres to one of the longstanding axioms of politics: never close a door, never rule anything out.

This year, especially, there may be good reason for invoking the phrase as Donald Trump, the sole remaining Republican contender, navigates 91 criminal charges against him.

Should Trump receive a conviction, Haley could just as easily “unsuspend” her campaign.

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AP RACE CALL: Trump wins Iowa caucus

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What is going on with California’s U.S. senate seat?

By SCOTT STROUD

California held primaries for two different Senate terms today – one special and one regularly scheduled primary. In a major departure from past special elections, two different sets of candidates advanced.

Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey will be on the ballot in November for a full Senate term to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. And then Schiff and fellow Democratic House Rep. Katie Porter will face off the unexpired term on the same date.

This outcome is a quirk of timing. Feinstein died in September 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom scheduled the primary for the next term and general election for the remainder of her term that expires in January 2025.

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Nikki Haley dropped out! She won the primary in Massachusetts but it wasn’t enough to stop Trump’s hold over the GOP, and she said XXXXX.
Donald Trump is so confident he’s going to be the GOP nominee that he decided on a running mate, and it’s someone that wasn’t thought to even be under consideration: Ryan Binkley. Binkley said some media counted him out, including us. “Despite the AP counting me out, now I’m going to be vice president. Do you like apples?”
President Joe Biden has won 14 primaries so far.
Donald Trump has 13 wins and 1 loss
Adam Schiff will face Steve Garvey AND Katie Porter in two separate Senate races. Read our explainer on how this happened. LINK

Why AP called Trump the winner in California, Arkansas, Colorado and Utah

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The AP was able to declare Trump the winner of the Republican presidential primaries in Arkansas, California and Colorado as well as the presidential caucuses in Utah based on initial results from across the states, which showed Trump with large leads and his opponents with no paths to overcome them.

At the time of the calls, Trump led by more than 40 points in each of the four states. The AP’s models, which consider where votes have been counted so far and how they correlate to places where votes have not yet been counted, did not see a way for Haley, his next closest competitor, to take the lead.

AP RACE CALL: California Democratic incumbent Rep. Julia Brownley loses

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Republican Bruce Boyer and Democrat Chris Anstead win the California U.S. House primary in the 26th Congressional District, beating out incumbent Democratic Rep. Julia Brownley.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this post implied that Anstead alone beat Brownley. Actually, both candidates defeated Brownley. California is a top-two primary state, meaning the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation.