Super Tuesday 2024 full coverage: Nikki Haley suspends campaign after Trump, Biden win big on election night

While there are still a few dozen delegates left to be allocated, the results of Super Tuesday 2024 are essentially in the books. Donald Trump vanquished Nikki Haley, his last remaining challenger for the Republican nomination, clearing the way for a rematch with President Biden in the fall.

Haley did not endorse Trump on her way out the door, saying it is now up to him to "earn the votes of those in our party and beyond who did not support him.”

Trump has 995 of the 1,215 delegates needed to secure the nomination. The former president's campaign believes he will reach that mark on March 12, when 161 delegates are up for grabs in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington.

After that, the next biggest dates on the 2024 election calendar will be the conventions, followed by the debates (if they happen) and Election Day:

• Sept. 16: 1st presidential debate
  The Commission on Presidential Debates has scheduled three presidential debates — the first is on Sept. 16 at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas — as well as a vice presidential debate in late September.
  

• Sept. 25: Vice presidential debate
  The lone sanctioned vice presidential debate will take place at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., on Sept. 25.
  

• Oct. 1: 2nd presidential debate
  The second presidential debate will take place at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Va., on Oct. 1.
  

• Oct. 9: 3rd presidential debate
  The third and final presidential debate will take place at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Oct. 9, less than a month before Election Day.
  

• Nov. 5: Election Day

See our full 2024 election guide and calendar here.

Fresh off his Super Tuesday victories, Donald Trump learned Wednesday that the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether presidential immunity protects him from being prosecuted for attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

April 25 is the final day of hearings in the court's current term, and the delay in taking up the case means that the Jan. 6 election interference case brought against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith may be delayed until after the 2024 election.

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With the 2024 general election matchup virtually finalized, a new national poll of Gen Z voters released Wednesday found President Biden leading Donald Trump 42% to 29% — but nearly 1 in 5 (19%) say they will vote for neither candidate in the fall, while 10% say they aren’t sure.

According to the survey of 992 18-to-29-year-olds conducted by Voters of Tomorrow last month, 77% say they are likely to vote in the upcoming election, while 10% say they’re unlikely to participate. The rest, 13%, say they are somewhat likely to cast a ballot.

The poll found that 48% of Gen Z-ers would vote for a generic Democratic congressional candidate, compared to 26% who say they’d back a Republican congressional hopeful. (Another 7% say they’d vote for a third-party candidate.)

The national Gen Z survey also found that 58% of young people support a ceasefire in Gaza, while 12% do not.

And the top three issues Gen Z voters say are important to them are the economy, abortion and health care.

Tuesday's election results in San Francisco offer a snapshot of a city that has become fed up with some its long-standing progressive policies.

By a margin of 59.9% to 40.1%, voters there approved Measure E, which expands police powers, including the use of drones, to chase felony suspects and introduces more surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology to combat crime.

Far from defunding the police, voters also passed Measure B, which sets minimum staffing levels for police officers in the city.

They also easily passed Measure F, which mandates drug testing for welfare recipients.

Amid an affordable housing shortage, Measure C narrowly passed. It incentivizes the conversion of office-to-residential real estate projects in a city still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic but which also has clung to a NIMBY stance when it comes to new development.

The San Francisco Chronicle summed up the voting results with a striking headline Wednesday: "Progressivism is out — for now," it read.

Marianne Williamson, one of President Biden's remaining challengers for the Democratic presidential nomination, had some surprisingly strong performances during Super Tuesday.

According to Fox News, she came in second behind Biden in the following states:

• Arkansas

• California

• Oklahoma

• Texas

• Utah

• Virginia

• Vermont

Williamson, an author and political activist, had previously dropped out of the presidential race in early February. She relaunched her campaign on Feb. 28 after defeating fellow Biden challenger Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips in Michigan. Phillips suspended his campaign on Wednesday.

Williamson did not win any delegates and her bid is still considered a long shot, but the presidential candidate calls U.S. politics "unpredictable."

"That's part of what makes it exciting and what makes it kind of challenging at times. If you're running, you run to win. You run to get your ideas out in front of the voters," Williamson told Fox News Digital.

The Associated Press reports:

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Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips announced Wednesday he was ending his long-shot candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination and was endorsing President Biden.

"I ran for Congress in 2018 to resist Donald Trump, I was trapped in the Capitol in 2021 because of Donald Trump, and I ran for President in 2024 to resist Donald Trump again - because Americans were demanding an alternative, and democracy demands options," Phillips wrote in a post on X. "But it is clear that alternative is not me. And it is clear that Joe Biden is OUR candidate and OUR opportunity to demonstrate what type of country America is and intends to be."

Phillips appealed to Americans of all political persuasions to come together to help reelect Biden.

"I ask you join me in mobilizing, energizing, and doing everything you can to help keep a man of decency and integrity in the White House. That's Joe Biden," he wrote.

Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco and Uvalde County Constable Emmanuel Zamora — both of whom were part of the botched response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022 that left 19 students and two teachers dead — advanced in their elections for office on Tuesday.

The Justice Department’s official report on the Texas mass shooting, released in January, names both Nolasco and Zamora for their inaction during the deadly attack.

“Sheriff Nolasco did not seek out or establish a command post, establish unified command, share the intelligence he learned from both relatives, nor did he assign an intelligence officer to gather intelligence on the subject,” the report reads.

Nolasco, a Republican, won 39% of the vote in his bid for reelection against three Republican opponents, the Texas Tribune reported. He needed 50% in order to avoid a runoff, and will now face former Texas Department of Public Safety official Otto Arnim for the job.

Zamora, also a Republican, won his election with 64% of the vote against a Republican challenger.

Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips's Democratic presidential primary campaign logged more than a dozen losses Tuesday night, including in his home state. Phillips came in third place in Minnesota with less than 8% of the vote, trailing both President Biden and "uncommitted."

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:

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Following Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's lead, Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa endorsed Donald Trump for president on Wednesday, becoming the last member of the Senate's GOP leadership to do so.

"We must beat Joe Biden and get this country back on track," Ernst wrote on X. "Donald Trump has my support."

Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota and Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the second- and third-highest ranking Senate Republicans behind McConnell, had already endorsed the former president.

As CNN points out, Thune and other congressional Republicans who had been reluctant to publicly back Trump are now voicing their support after Trump's lone remaining challenger, Nikki Haley, dropped out of the race.

Nikki Haley's exit from the presidential race officially means that the U.S. will once again not be electing its first woman president — at least for another four years.

While Haley made history during her campaign — becoming the first woman to win a GOP presidential primary in D.C. — she still came up short in the rest of the primary elections, winning Vermont on Tuesday before suspending her campaign.

Heading into November, the rematch between President Biden, 81, and Donald Trump, 77, will prove to be more of the same for American politics.

“The fact that voters in both parties have thrown their support to two elderly white men indicates that they believe that old white guys are still the most electable in a presidential race," Karrin Vasby Anderson, a professor at Colorado State University who studies gender and political culture, told the Associated Press.

In 2016, Trump defeated former first lady and onetime secretary of state Hillary Clinton in a tight race to become president. Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote.

The Biden administration has invested more than $7 billion in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and is hoping some of that support will help President Biden win in November.

In February, the Democratic National Committee began a nationwide digital advertising campaign targeting Black and young voters on 15 college campuses, including HBCUs.

Vice President Kamala Harris, a Howard University graduate, has also made several appearances at HBCUs and hosted them at the White House to discuss “key issues that disproportionately impact young people across the country — from reproductive freedom and gun safety to climate action, voting rights, LGBTQ+ equality, and book bans,” according to the White House.

Trump has also ramped up courting young Black voters, specifically Black men, trumpeting his meetings with HBCU leaders and funding for the schools while in office.

However, some students have expressed their lack of enthusiasm for both President Biden and Donald Trump and believe issues important to them have not been fully addressed. Calvin Bell, a Morehouse College student, told NBC News that while he plans to vote for Biden, he feels like he's picking the "lesser of two evils."

Donald Trump is looking for a financial boost to help his presidential campaign before he's expected to go head-to-head with President Biden in November's general election, as reported by the New York Times on Tuesday. Trump reportedly met with Elon Musk, one of the world's wealthiest people, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday.

Here's what the Times also said:

Musk responded on Wednesday in a post on X:

It's now a clear rematch for President Biden and Donald Trump, and Democrats are sounding the alarm over some recent polls that show disapproval of Biden's job performance and his age — and that show Biden trailing Trump.

Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, acknowledged the party's concerns about the tight race and the Supreme Court's postponement of a ruling on Trump's legal immunity claims, as well as the party's own Super Bowl fumble.

From the Hill:

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday endorsed Donald Trump for president after Trump's last GOP primary opponent, Nikki Haley, announced that she is suspending her Republican presidential bid.

“It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for president of the United States. It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support,” McConnell said.

McConnell's endorsement of Trump is a big deal because although the Senate minority leader can take a good deal of credit for Trump's legislative victories, there has long been friction between the two GOP leaders. The two men did not speak for several years following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol after Trump supporters tried to block the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

Although McConnell voted to acquit Trump on impeachment charges stemming from the Capitol riot, he criticized Trump as "practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day."

And when Democrats outperformed expectations in the 2022 midterms, McConnell was quick to blame Trump, who supported a number of right-wing candidates who lost elections the GOP otherwise saw as winnable.

McConnell recently announced he would step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after a record-setting 17 years in the position.

President Biden released a statement Wednesday congratulating Nikki Haley on her campaign after she announced she was suspending it.

"It takes a lot of courage to run for President — that's especially true in today's Republican Party, where so few dare to speak the truth about Donald Trump," Biden said in a statement. Nikki Haley was willing to speak the truth about Trump: about the chaos that always follows him, about his inability to see right from wrong, about his cowering before Vladimir Putin.

"Donald Trump made it clear he doesn't want Nikki Haley's supporters," Biden continued. "I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign. I know there is a lot we won't agree on. But on the fundamental issues of preserving American democracy, on standing up for the rule of law, on treating each other with decency and dignity and respect, on preserving NATO and standing up to America's adversaries, I hope and believe we can find common ground.

"We all know this is no ordinary election," he added. "And the stakes for America couldn't be higher. I know that Democrats and Republicans and Independents disagree on many issues and hold strong convictions. That's a good thing. That's what America stands for. But I also know this: what unites Democrats and Republicans and Independents is a love for America."

The Biden campaign also posted a message on Instagram highlighting Trump's assertion in January that contributors to Haley's campaign are "permanently barred from the MAGA camp."

Former President Donald Trump criticized his GOP political rival, former ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, in a social media post moments after she suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday morning.

"Nikki Haley got TROUNCED last night, in record setting fashion," he wrote in the post referring to Super Tuesday's results. Trump's post also asked Haley's supporters to get behind him for the November election.

Haley did not endorse Trump during her announcement, saying he has to "earn" the votes of those who didn't support him.

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton urges voters in a post on X to support President Biden in November's general election:

Nikki Haley suspended her campaign for president on Wednesday morning, as expected.

In brief remarks from her home state of South Carolina, the former governor and ex-U.N. ambassador said she has "no regrets."

"The time has now come to suspend my campaign," Haley said in prepared remarks at her campaign headquarters in Daniel Island, S.C. "I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I've done that."

Trump has won 22 of the 24 GOP nominating contests in the 2024 GOP race to date. Haley won two: the Washington, D.C., Republican primary on Sunday, and Vermont's Republican primary on Tuesday evening, denying Trump a Super Tuesday sweep.

Haley conceded that Trump will likely be the Republican nominee, but she stopped short of endorsing him.

"I congratulate him and wish him well," Haley said. "I wish anyone well who would be America's president."

She said it is now up to Trump to earn the votes of those in the party who didn't vote for him.

“And I hope he does that," Haley said. "At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing.”

While most American voters are looking ahead to the general election with Super Tuesday in the rearview mirror, Democrats in Hawaii are scheduled to vote Wednesday on their party’s nominee for president.

According to the Associated Press, 31 delegates are at stake in the Aloha State, where President Biden has a large advantage over his challengers on the ballot, including Rep. Dean Phillips and self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson.

“The American people really do have confidence in President Biden’s leadership," Adrian Tam, the interim chairperson of Hawaii Democrats, told the AP. "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.

Read more about Hawaii's Democratic caucuses via AP here.