Millions of Americans in 15 states and American Samoa will cast their votes on Tuesday, the most important voting day in the race for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are expected to compete against each other in the November election, winning broad support from party loyalists.

Neither Biden nor Trump will secure their respective presidential nominations in Tuesday’s vote.

But with more than a third of the delegates at national party conventions this summer, Biden and Trump could take a big step toward winning a majority of convention delegates and could soon do so in the coming weeks. Receive party nomination in primary election.

Biden has received only token opposition in the Democratic race, leaving Trump with one remaining challenger – former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley.

Trump has so far defeated her in state primaries or caucuses, although Haley’s victory in Washington, D.C., on Sunday saw just 2,000 Republicans turn out to vote in the overwhelmingly Democratic capital. She became the first woman to win an election. The race for the Republican presidential nomination.

But Haley faced a daunting reality Tuesday when her campaign did not predict she would win any of the 16 races. But state polls suggest she may have a beef or two with Trump, even as he faces an unprecedented four criminal indictments with 91 charges and a trial starting in three weeks.

Several states voting Tuesday will award all party convention delegates to individual primary winners rather than prorating them based on vote counts, which could benefit Trump significantly.

Polls show him well ahead of Haley in Texas and California, the top two states with the most delegates on Tuesday.

The question facing Haley is whether she will drop out of the race for Trump’s nomination if she loses most or all of Tuesday’s primaries or remain a protest candidate for at least Trump’s third consecutive election The election cycle precedes the formal receipt of the party’s presidential nomination.

Trump won the presidency in 2016 but lost the 2020 re-election bid to Biden. National polls show him with a narrow lead over Biden, eight months before the 2024 presidential election.

In recent days, Haley has pledged to continue her campaign for the Republican nomination through Super Tuesday voting, but she has not booked more TV ads in states with upcoming primaries and some of her major campaign donors have been discouraged by her election loss. Stop donating installed.

Although Biden faces little competition in the Democratic primary, political analysts are watching to see whether a sizable number of voters in Midwestern Minnesota might “uncommit” their vote in protest of his staunch support for Israel’s Gaza war. He is continuing to push for a six-week pause in fighting.

Last week, about 13% of Democratic primary voters cast “uncommitted” votes in Michigan, where the country’s largest group of Arab Americans live.

Biden will also be in the spotlight Thursday night when he delivers his annual State of the Union address before Congress and a national television audience.

He is expected to tout the progress of the U.S. economy during his more than three years in office, even as polls show that many Americans believe he has mismanaged the economy and frequently complains about rising grocery prices — something consumers cannot avoid. purchase behavior.