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Last week was Super Tuesday and both political parties held a massive number of primary elections. The Republicans held primaries in 15 states.
As many expected, Donald Trump scored a knockout. His challenger, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley only won one state. Trump scooped up the rest. Haley officially dropped out of the race the next day and Trump was left the last man standing.
There are still a few Republican primaries to go and Trump will have to pick up additional delegates to have the full number of delegates needed for the nomination. However, as there are now no other Republican candidates in the race, it’s obvious that Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate for president in the fall.
Joe Biden, meanwhile is the undisputed nominee of his party. Nobody else is running against him.
If Trump wins in November, it will be a novel event. Only once in history did a incumbent president loose a reelection bid and then come back in the next election and unseat the man who unseated him.
Grover Cleveland , a Democrat, was elected president in 1884. In 1888, he ran for reelection and was defeated by Benjamin Harrison, a Republican. Cleveland came back for a rematch in 1892 and beat Harrison. He became he only U. S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms to become both the 22nd and the 24th president of the United States.
If he wins, Donald Trump could become the second president in U. S. history to have that distinction. You may want to save campaign memorabilia from this one as there is no one living who has ever seen the likes of it before.
There were legal questions that swirled around Cleveland. He had been the subject of a paternity suit, prompting a campaign chant at Republican rallies: “Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?” After Cleveland won, Democrats replied with an answer: “Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!”
Ah yes, elections of old were so polite and well-mannered.
