00:00 Donald Trump is counting on a demonstration of strength on Tuesday during the big election day of the Super Tuesday to definitively dismiss his last Republican rival Nikki Haley and devote himself to the comeback match against Joe Biden.
00:12 The Super Tuesday is an essential meeting of American politics, during which 15 states simultaneously organize their primaries for the presidential election.
00:21 From Maine to California, from Texas to Virginia, from Alaska to Arkansas, millions of Americans are called to the polls to nominate their Democratic and Republican candidates for the November election.
00:32 But this big electoral day, which is usually the subject of huge media attention, has a slightly different flavor this year, as it seems to have played in advance.
00:41 On the Republican side, only two candidates are still in the running.
00:45 Donald Trump, big favorite
00:47 Donald Trump, 77, is by far the favorite, despite his judicial troubles.
00:53 With the exception of the Sunday primaries in Washington, the United States capital, won by Mme. Haley, the former president has won all the primaries organized by his party since January, thus crushing a large part of the Republican competition.
01:08 Mme. Haley, 52, is therefore the only one to still bar her way.
01:13 The plea of this woman, the only one in the Republican list, is simple, "We will not survive four more years of Trump's chaos."
01:20 She promises instead to restore a certain sense of normality and urges her peers to choose a new generation of leaders.
01:27 Republican voters are deaf.
01:30 According to the polls, Donald Trump is supposed to shake off each of the next states in play, relying, as always, on an extremely solid base of faithful.
01:39 Nikki Haley is hanging on.
01:41 Until her symbolic victory on Sunday evening in Washington, Mme. Haley had been in a row of crushing defeats, including in the state she was governor of.
01:50 The former UN ambassadress under the Trump administration, however, continued to hang on, ensuring that throwing the sponge would be the solution to ease.
01:58 Will she stay in the race if the bad results continue to accumulate on Tuesday?
02:03 In a hurry to answer the question, the main interest remains vague. "We will continue until Super Tuesday," she said to journalists at the end of February.
02:13 "It's as far as I've thought about strategy."
02:17 Donald Trump, who keeps encouraging his rival to "shrug off" little flattery, is her favorite hammer that Nikki Haley is going to lose each of the states in play on Tuesday.
02:26 She doesn't arouse enthusiasm, doesn't mobilize crowds, nothing, he said in a post on his social media "social hole."
02:34 A formality for Biden
02:37 The primaries can theoretically extend to July.
02:40 But Donald Trump's team is expecting a victory on March 19 or later.
02:45 The billionaire wants to be able to get going as soon as possible in a comeback match with Joe Biden before being sucked into his judicial troubles.
02:52 According to one of the FBI accounts, the billionaire has already spent nine days in court in 2024, which he willingly turns into a campaign stunt.
03:01 His first criminal trial begins on March 25 in New York.
03:05 On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden, 81, is a candidate for re-election and is not facing any serious opposition.
03:13 The candidacies of two Democrats launched in his pursuit, Minnesota Senator Dean Phillips and successful author Marianne Williamson, have never really aroused enthusiasm, despite the recurring criticisms expressed by voters about the age of the president or his support for Israel.
03:28 Tuesday's elections are therefore almost formal.
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