Donald Trump surged closer to a rematch with Joe Biden in November as he trounced Nikki Haley, his final rival for the Republican nomination, on Super Tuesday, winning fourteen states to her one.
The former president, 77, dominated the biggest day of the primary season and left the ex-South Carolina governor's White House dreams hanging by a thread after a single victory in the Vermont primary.
By 4am Eastern Time, the Republican frontrunner had won 14 states with ease, with Alaska calling their results in the early hours of Wednesday morning as did Utah where Trump defeated Haley by more than 10,000 votes.
His victories in states including Virginia, North Carolina , Tennessee, Oklahoma , Maine , Alabama , Massachusetts , Arkansas , Texas, Colorado , Minnesota and California were called almost immediately after the polls closed.
Meanwhile, a defeated Haley stayed away from the cameras in South Carolina and refused to react to the slew of defeats as speculation continued over whether she would drop out.
‘They call it Super Tuesday for a reason - this is a big win. And they tell me, the pundit, there has never been anything so conclusive. This is an amazing night,’ Trump told his supporters in a speech at Mar-a-Lago.
