Super Tuesday Was Unsurprising — and That Should Worry You
Biden and Trump are winning primaries and collecting delegates as the Republican Party continues its descent into White nationalism.
Is America really going to do this all over again?
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP
Super Tuesday’s elections delivered no major surprises, which is another way of saying that US politics moved deeper into a bizzarro world from which no immediate escape is apparent.
President Joe Biden, who repeatedly shows weakness in polls, once again did pretty well with actual voters, easily running the table of Super Tuesday’s 15 states. While Biden’s Democratic opponents, Marianne Williamson and Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, have attempted to provide a channel for protest, neither appears capable of transforming dissatisfaction with Biden into votes. Biden typically won about 90% of the vote yesterday — although in Minnesota almost 20% of voters opted to remain uncommitted, and more than 10% had no preference in North Carolina.