It has been a week since 2024's iteration of Super Tuesday, and it is also, incidentally, a week until I return to the United States. Political news has moved on. There was a State of the Union address. More legal machinations in Trump's ongoing legal problems.
Oh, but also, the race effectively run, as the next day, Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and former Ambassador to the United Nations, suspended her campaign against her former boss, Donald Trump.
The conventional wisdom going into the campaign was that it was a make or break night for Nikki Haley, and that if she did have a chance for an upset, it would occur by a victory in a state with college educated, suburban voters---terms that have more denotation than connotation, but the general idea was clear. And it was a reason why the night allowed just the slightest bit of excitement: hitting F5 while the needle wobbled back and forth in Vermont, finally
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