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Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley was predicted to win Vermont's 17 delegates in an surprising upset victory on Super Tuesday, according to Politico and the Associated Press.

Haley won the Washington, D.C. primary over the weekend but this was her first and only state victory in a Republican race that has been dominated by former President Donald Trump.

An otherwise slam-dunk Super Tuesday for President Joe Biden ran afoul in an unexpected territory: American Samoa.

Jason Palmer, 52, claimed victory with 51 of the 91 ballots cast in the territory’s caucus, according to reports from the Associated Press and the Washington Post.

Elon Musk flew to Florida Sunday to huddle with a cash-strapped former President Donald Trump facing a presidential campaign and civil court rulings adding up to more than $500 million, according to a new report.

Sources told the New York Times Tuesday that Trump met with Musk, estimated to be worth about $200 billion, and several other wealthy Republican donors.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis slammed former President Donald Trump's effort to bar her from prosecuting the Georgia election racketeering case, arguing his legal team came nowhere near to meeting the burden of proof, court records show.

After a lengthy and dramatic evidentiary hearing, Judge Scott McAfee is currently weighing whether Willis' personal relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade constituted misconduct. On Tuesday, Willis issued a new filing making it clear she was not impressed by the evidence presented.

Trump takes Colorado after Supreme Court battle

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Former President Donald Trump claimed victory in Colorado after a contentious battle with the state's Supreme Court over the definition of an insurrectionist, according to predictions from NBC News and the New York Times.

Kari Lake will have to face a civil trial for defamation brought by a top county elections chief in Arizona, court records and reports show.

The Arizona Supreme Court has denied Lake's petition to review a lower court decision ordering the lawsuit brought by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to move forward against her, according to KPNX's Brahm Resnik.

A federal inmate sentenced to 15 years in prison for scamming a Native American tribal entity out of tens of millions of dollars appears to be the new star witness in House Republicans' quest to impeach President Joe Biden, official documents show.

Reps. James Comer (R-KY), Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Tuesday sent out two more angry letters — this time to Manhattan-based assistant U.S. Attorney Negar Tekeei and Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Collette Peters — demanding information about why Jason Galanis' 2023 pleas for early release were denied.

Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema announced her retirement from the Senate Tuesday in a carefully worded statement, praising Republican lawmakers she worked with while blasting the "dysfunction" of modern politics.

The former Democrat-turned-Independent switched her allegiances in 2022. She has since worked with both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.

Former FBI assistant director Andrew McCabe thinks Donald Trump's lawyers are intentionally trying to confuse Judge Aileen Cannon in his classified documents case.

Speaking with legal expert Allison Gill on the "Jack" podcast Tuesday, McCabe read aloud a filing from Trump's team which argues that it should be able to publicly disclose the identities of witnesses in the case and their testimony.

As Donald Trump heads into "Super Tuesday" — and is expected to wipe the floor with his opponent — his former communications director sees warning signs that he should be very concerned about.

Even though he's clearly beating Nikki Haley, Alyssa Farah Griffin sees substantial numbers voting for her — and those people, she said, will not be joining team Trump.

Reporters on the ground in Super Tuesday states questioned voters about the reasoning behind their decisions in the primary and general elections — and some of their answers were eye-opening.

A North Carolina man gave MSNBC's Shaq Brewster a bluntly honest reason why he thought Nikki Haley is "not going to be a good president" — because of her gender.

The Supreme Court's plan to hear Donald Trump's presidential immunity case in April could actually set the GOP's leading candidate up for a scheduling disaster as he near the November election, a columnist warned Tuesday.

Former conservative Jennifer Rubin, in her Washington Post column, speculated that the Supreme Court might actually be handing Trump the worst possible trial date for his Washington, D.C. election interference case.

A silver-haired Jon Stewart began his show Monday evening by whipping glasses on his face and announcing a breaking news alert that simply could not wait: "Wolf Blitzer and I appear to be merging!"

Stewart kept the tempo up with a quick pivot to a Daily Show reporter with an update on responses to the latest Supreme Court decision on Trump: "Democrats are doing more shower crying than normal, Jon."