US President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, his predecessor, cruised to victories in statewide Super Tuesday primaries.
Trump won the Republican votes in 14 of 15 states, while Nikki Haley, former United Nations (UN) ambassador and his last remaining rival, won Vermont, denying the former president a full sweep.
But Haley’s win did little to scupper Trump’s steady march to the Republican ticket.
The only contest Biden lost was the Democratic caucus in American Samoa, a small US territory in the South Pacific Ocean, where he came short by a slim margin to Jason Palm
Although not all states have concluded their primaries, the ones left are not enough to steer the trajectory of the race from the leading candidates — Trump and Biden.
“They call it Super Tuesday for a reason,” Trump told his supporters.
The former president focused on Biden’s immigration policies, a topic that has been of concern to American voters, and called him the “worst president” in history.
“Our cities are being overrun with migrant crime,” he added.
Biden did not give a speech but issued a statement labelling his rival “a threat to democracy”.
“Tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: Are we going to keep moving forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backwards into the chaos, division, and darkness that defined his term in office?” the US president said
