The Supreme Court and Republican Party members are all voting in his favor.
Donald Trump has often seemed to succeed in politics in spite of difficulty and disaster. Over the past week, something different has been happening: Everything seems to be going Trump’s way.
Tuesday’s electoral results provided a perfect cap. Trump has now wrapped up the Republican nomination, with Nikki Haley exiting the race this morning. She departed after Trump won 14 of last night’s contests, losing only in Vermont. In every other state, he won by double-digit margins; in Alaska, he captured three-quarters of the vote. In a terrifying turn for the nation, the only thing that stands between him and the White House now is Joe Biden.
Trump’s victory has seemed inevitable for months; Haley never stood a real chance of beating him. Perhaps the largest effect of her campaign was hinting at a submerged weakness for the Trump reelection effort. Haley was able to win sizable minorities in many states, but Trump got some good news on that front this week. Analyzing a new poll from his outlet, the New York Times data guru Nate Cohn argued that Haley’s strength is largely due to support from voters who backed Biden in 2020, including Democrats who chose to vote in open Republican primaries—not a winnowing of Trump’s base.
“They call it Super Tuesday for a reason,” Trump said last night at Mar-A-Lago. “This is a big one. And they tell me, the pundits and otherwise, that there’s never been one like this. There’s never been anything so conclusive. This was an amazing night, an amazing day. It’s been an incredible period of time in our country’s history.”
Super Tuesday’s romp was really just the culmination of a super week for Trump.
