Super Tuesday 2024 live results: Trump secures Colorado victory following Supreme Court decision

As it stands, Donald Trump looks all but certain to be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee once again in 2024, having already chalked up big wins in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, the US Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Michigan, Idaho and Missouri primaries and had any doubts about his place on ballot papers dispelled by the US Supreme Court, which ruled on Monday that states have no authority to disqualify candidates.

Only the well-funded but under-performing ex-UN ambassador Nikki Haley remains to challenge him.

Ms Haley and Mr Trump were neck and neck in Vermont as votes were counted on Tuesday night.

Mr Trump said on the stage in Florida that “We’ve watched our country take a great beating over the last three years, and nobody thought a thing like this would be possible”.

“We wouldn’t have Russia attacking Ukraine. We wouldn’t have Israel being attacked. Iran, as you know, was broke, when I was running things. They were broke. They didn’t have money for Hamas. They didn’t have money for Hezbollah,” he added.

Mr Trump took the stage at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night saying: “They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one.”

“They tell me the pundits and otherwise that there’s never been one like this has never been anything so conclusive,” he added after sweeping the states called so far. “This was an amazing, an amazing night, an amazing day. It’s been an incredible period of time and [in] our country’s history. It’s been sad in so many ways, but I think it’s going to be inspiring because we’re going to do something that frankly nobody has been able to do for a long time.”

Joe Biden will win the Utah Democratic primary, AP projects.

Weeks after a state supreme court decision that threatens the future of in vitro fertilization in Alabama, voters on Super Tuesday decided the court’s next slate of justices in a closely watched Republican primary election.

Last month, Alabama’s Supreme Court defined frozen embryos as children, expanding the scope of so-called “personhood” embraced by Christian fundamentalists and anti-abortion groups who believe that life begins at conception – and underscoring the far-reaching impacts of Roe v Wade’s collapse.

The ruling drew widespread condemnation and alarm, with fertility clinics across the state fearing swift legal scrutiny and their forced closure while families were left in heartbreaking limbo.

Republican justice Sarah Stewart, who currently sits on the court and concurred with the controversial decision, is the projected winner of the Republican primary for the next chief justice. She will now face Democratic candidate Greg Griffin, a Montgomery County circuit judge.

Alabama’s 72-year-old outgoing chief justice Tom Parker – a proponent of Christian nationalist doctrine who cited the Bible in the court’s IVF ruling – is unable to seek another term; the state forbids judges older than 70 to be elected.

Minnesota Democratic Rep Dean Phillips who challenged President Joe Biden for the nomination wrote on X on Tuesday night: “Congratulations to Joe Biden, Uncommitted, Marianne Williamson, and Nikki Haley for demonstrating more appeal to Democratic Party loyalists than me.”

President Joe Biden faced his first loss in the US territory of American Samoa on Tuesday night where he lost the Democratic caucus to unknown candidate Jason Palmer by 51 votes to 40.

It comes as Mr Trump was looking for a clean sweep of victories on Super Tuesday which would edge him closer to a rematch for the Oval Office with Joe Biden on 5 November.

According to the New York Times, the former president and his team are working to find additional major donors to shore up his finances as he heads into an expected general election against Mr Biden.

It is not yet clear whether Mr Musk plans to spend any money supporting Mr Trump, though his recent social media posts suggest he thinks that Mr Biden’s time in office should come to an end.

A ceasefire in Gaza is “in the hands of Hamas,” Joe Biden said as he spoke to reporters on Tuesday, 5 March.

The US president repeated a claim by secretary of state Antony Blinken, who said there is an opportunity for an immediate ceasefire but the responsibility was on the group.

“The Israelis have been cooperating. We need a ceasefire,” Mr Biden said.

Hamas has said: “It is now in the hands of the Americans, if they are serious about achieving a ceasefire before Ramadan, to exercise enough pressure on the Israelis.”