Former President Trump celebrated dominating the Republican races on Super Tuesday and bashed President Joe Biden during his election night victory remarks that did not mention his GOP primary rival Nikki Haley. 

“This was an amazing night and an amazing day, it’s been an incredible period of time in our country’s history,” Trump said at his election night watch party at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. 

CNN has projected that he will win primary contests in at least 11 Super Tuesday states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Trump thanked his family, his campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita as well as his campaign staff. He claimed that "we have a very divided country," and vowed to unify it soon.

"We have a great Republican party with tremendous talent and we want to have unity and we're going to have unity and it's going to happen very quickly," Trump said.

Trump went on to bash Biden in his speech and said "we're going to win this election because we have no choice."

CNN reported earlier this evening that Trump’s team is aware he won’t cross the delegate threshold tonight to become the presumptive Republican nominee, but the hope is that he secures enough delegates to ensure he does meet that milestone as early as next Tuesday,March 12.

The campaign is also hoping that a definitive win tonight will effectively force his lone GOP rival, Nikki Haley, to drop out of the race.

Biden warns a second Trump term would mean a return to "chaos, division, and darkness":

President Joe Biden touted the work his administration has accomplished in its first term in office while issuing a stark warning that a second Donald Trump term would mean a return to "Chaos, division, and darkness," in a statement released Tuesday.

"Four years ago, I ran because of the existential threat Donald Trump posed to the America we all believe in," Biden wrote in a statement, highlighting progress under his administration on jobs, inflation, prescription drug prices, and gun control.

Biden then warned that if Trump returns to the White House, the progress his administration has made will be at risk.

"(Trump) is driven by grievance and grift, focused on his own revenge and retribution, not the American people," Biden noted.

Earlier Tuesday, CNN reported that the Biden campaign was closely watching GOP primary results for Nikki Haley voters they considered “gettable” in a general election matchup against Trump in November.

Haley is receiving feedback from allies about her decision to endorse Trump, sources say

GOP candidate Nikki Haley says she has not made a final decision as to whether or not she would endorse former Trump if she ends her presidential bid, but her campaign is receiving a lot of feedback on the subject, sources familiar with recent discussions tell CNN.

People who are close with Haley have different opinions.

Some believe that it would be good for her to back Trump because she would be viewed as a team player.

Others ardently oppose her endorsing him because that would give Haley the freedom to be critical of Trump and build her own movement.

They have shared those opinions with Haley and her campaign in recent days and weeks, sources said.

Haley herself has recently said she is not focused on endorsing anyone because she is focused on winning herself. 

"When you're in the middle of a fight, you don't think about what you're going to do," Haley said Tuesday.

But she has also indicated in recent days that she no longer feels bound by the pledge she made last year to support the eventual GOP nominee.

Her rationale is twofold: she has said that the Republican National Convention today is different than it was when she made that pledge, and she has pointed out that Trump did not make the pledge himself. 

Her comments mark an about-face for the former South Carolina governor after she initially made the pledge to get on the debate stage, and said she would honor that commitment as recently as a few weeks ago.

Source | CNN / AP