US Former President Donald Trump swept to victory in statewide nominating contests across the country on Tuesday (March 6), setting up a historic rematch with U.S. President Joe Biden who swept the Democratic primaries, in November's general election despite low approval ratings for both candidates, Reuters reports.
"We are going to do it right. We're going to have the greatest economy ever in the history of our country. We're going to top what we did. We're going to become an energy center of the world. We were ready to become energy-dominant and they stopped that. They stopped that. But we are going to become energy-dominant. We're going to pay off debt. We're going to do things that nobody thought was possible. You know, we hadn't done our second phase of the tax cuts. When we did the tax cuts, the Democrats fought us very hard. And now they say, well, I guess that was pretty good because we took in much more revenues after we cut taxes and then we did all of those regulation cuts and people were working and everybody was happy and we were all proud of our country. But we're going to win this election because we have no choice. If we lose the election, we're not going to have a country left," Trump said.
Trump won the Republican votes in a dozen states - including delegate-rich California and Texas - brushing aside former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, his lone remaining rival, whose campaign no longer has a viable path to the nomination. Her only win of the night thus far came in Vermont, Edison Research projected.
After a commanding performance across 15 states where more than one-third of Republican delegates were up for grabs on Super Tuesday, Trump had all but clinched his third consecutive presidential nomination, despite facing a litany of criminal charges.
