{"id":48872,"date":"2024-03-06T19:43:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48872"},"modified":"2024-03-06T19:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:43:33","slug":"trump-wins-first-super-tuesday-primaries-us-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48872","title":{"rendered":"Trump wins first Super Tuesday primaries: US networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump won primary elections in Virginia and North Carolina, US networks predicted as results began to come in from the 15 &#8220;Super Tuesday&#8221; states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former president, who is bidding for a sensational comeback after being unseated by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, is expected to claim a clean sweep of states Tuesday on the way to the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Trump thanked Virginia and North Carolina on his Truth Social site, as counts were underway in states across the country.<\/p>\n<p>His longshot challenger, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, has failed to provide a significant obstacle in Trump&#8217;s path to the nomination, but has refused to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Polling averages from RealClearPolitics show 77-year-old Trump 65 points clear in the primary, and two points ahead of President Joe Biden in a one-on-one match-up in the November election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump won primary elections in Virginia and North Carolina, US networks predicted as results began to come in from the 15 &#8220;Super Tuesday&#8221; states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. The former president, who is bidding for a sensational comeback after being unseated by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[704],"class_list":["post-48872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-wins-first-super-tuesday-primaries-us-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}