Super Tuesday results: Trump and Biden storm to victory as Haley picks up shock win in Vermont

A new poll found that six in 10 Americans doubt both the mental capacities of Joe Biden and Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

President Biden is 81-years-old — already the oldest president to ever serve — and Trump is 77-years-old.

Approximately 63 per cent of respondents said that they are not very or not at all confident in Biden’s mental abilities. Fewer, but still more than half — 57 per cent — of the respondents said they felt the same about Trump.

The findings were part of a new Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research survey to gauge voter confidence in the two men who will likely be on the November ballot.

A similar poll was conducted specifically about Mr Biden’s memory in January. At that time only about half of those polled expressed similar concerns, suggesting the public has grown more troubled over the last few months.

Independents were far more likely to express concerns over Biden’s mental acuity, with 80 per cent reporting they questioned the president’s ability to govern. Of the same group, 56 per cent expressed similar concerns about Trump.

When asked if they approved of Biden’s governing, only 38 per cent of the respondents answered in the positive. Approximately 74 per cent of Democrat respondents said they approved of Biden’s job thus far, while 20 per cent of Independents and only six per cent of Republicans shared those feelings.

The poll breaks down Biden’s performance in a number of key areas, and approval ratings differed between issues.

The Republican front-runner is being projected to win the Utah caucus, his 14th and last win out of a possible 15 on Super Tuesday.

“You have no business in the Secretary of State’s office and shouldn’t oversee an election in which you have shown a clear bias,” Ms Boebert wrote on X. “You’re unfit. Time for you to be RECALLED!”

Ms Boebert was responding to a statement from Ms Griswold expressing her disappointment at the Supreme Court’s decision to take away states’ authority to enforce the US Constitution’s insurrection clause for federal candidates.

Jon Sopel joins a thousand jubilant Republicans in Florida as Donald Trump declares himself invincible in the race for the party’s presidential nomination. But his rival Nikki Haley has a couple of options – one thermonuclear – that could yet derail him:

Nikki Haley’s campaign spokesperson, Olivia Perez-Cubas, has refuted calls from some Republicans for her to withdraw from the race.

“Unity is not achieved by simply claiming ‘we’re united,’” Ms Perez-Cubas said in a statement on Tuesday. “Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better.”

Nikki Haley’s campaign was left in the dust by Donald Trump’s on Tuesday night in the kind of showing that could severely weaken her ability to press on towards the GOP convention in July.

The former governor of South Carolina was only projected to win one state, Vermont, on Tuesday as her opponent cleaned up with victories in more than a dozen others likely to include the two largest prizes of the night: California and Texas. Should Ms Haley prevail over the former president in the northeast, it will be with a slim margin of victory eclipsed by the wide gulfs separating her from Mr Trump in every other state.

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Donald Trump has won the Alaska Republican primary, according to AP. The state will allocate 29 Republican delegates based on the results of the caucus.

A committee created by Georgia’s Republican-dominated state legislature with authority to discipline and remove prosecutors could soon derail a criminal case against Donald Trump.

The state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp is set to approve a measure that effectively removes certain guardrails for the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, which the governor signed into law last year.

Republican officials have repeatedly targeted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her case against the former president and more than a dozen of his allies charged under the state’s anti-racketeering law for a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.

But GOP lawmakers have denied that the commission was established to take aim at Ms Willis, who was elected to office in 2020 and has served as Fulton County’s chief prosecutor since January 2021.

After creating the commission last year, Mr Kemp said the group would target “far-left prosecutors” who are “making our communities less safe.”

“I am not going to stand idly by as rogue or incompetent prosecutors refuse to uphold the law,” Mr Kemp said in October. “We are sending a message that we will not forfeit public safety for prosecutors to let criminals off the hook.”