Trump looking toward general election with Super Tuesday looming

PALM BEACH, FL (Gray Media) - Super Tuesday, March 5, is the day when the most states and territories vote in the 2024 primary process. Thus far, Donald Trump has won nearly every primary contest, but former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley insists she is sticking through the day 16 states and territories hold primary elections. Despite Haley remaining in the race, this will not have the feel of Super Tuesday’s past, with Trump’s focus already on the general election.

Over the weekend, Trump added to his delegate tally, winning contests in Idaho, Missouri, and getting confirmation he will receive all the Republican delegates from Michigan.

“With your help we’re going to win big on Super Tuesday,” Trump told supporters Saturday in Virginia.

Trump expects to officially turn the page on the primaries after Tuesday, focusing all his energy on his general election opponent. But Haley received a boost over the weekend as well, winning her first contest over the weekend - the primary for the District of Columbia.

“If you join us in this fight, I promise you our best days are yet to come,” said Haley at a campaign event in Vermont Sunday.

Typically, candidates pivot to a more inclusive message for the general election, but the Trump campaign says he is not going to change and will continue with his playbook of hitting the Biden White House on crime, the economy, and immigration at the southern border.

“This is a Biden invasion over the past three years…allowing thousands and thousands of people to come in,” said Trump at the southwest border Thursday.

Bob Shapiro, an elections expert from Columbia University says recent polling and results indicate Trump’s most ardent supporters are showing up this year.

“The one thing Trump has going for him is that his base of support is mobilized and energized and there seems to be little doubt that they’ll come out to vote on Election Day,” said Shapiro.

The former president will have to juggle his campaign schedule with his legal one, facing 91 criminal charges across four indictments. Trump gained a legal victory Monday, when the US Supreme Court ruled he could not be kept off the Colorado primary ballot after that state and others attempted to bar him from participating due to his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

If Tuesday is the death blow for Haley’s campaign, it does not mean Trump will officially be the party nominee. He needs 1215 delegates - a mark his campaign expects to reach in the coming weeks.

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