As Trump vs Biden repeat becomes inevitable, some US voters are less than enthused
US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump swept to victory in statewide nomination contests on Tuesday, setting up a rematch in November's election.
Wednesday 6 March 2024 11:32, UK
"It's a match-up between an elderly, deteriorated man versus a best-case scenario narcissist and, worst case, just a total sociopath. It seems like we're screwed either way."
That was the verdict of John, a musician from North Carolina, as news of Donald Trump's advance became clear.
He didn't want his surname used as, he explained: "This could be a crazy place in a couple of years."
We met John inside a bowling alley in the town of Greensboro.
I couldn't say it was a place on the edge of its seat for Super Tuesday results.
As one paying customer told me: "I don't even know what Super Tuesday is, but we've got Super Friday in here."
To be fair, the Republican nominee race has long been short on suspense, however significant.
Biden versus Trump is part of the political furniture, in office and out.
America's political fault-line runs between the pair and that's never looked like changing. It will become effectively inevitable when Nikki Haley, his last rival for the Republican presidential nomination, drops out of the race, as she is expected to do, according to Sky News partner NBC.
"I'm just hoping another candidate shows up, but I'm not very hopeful," said Michelle Linthicum, 52, who voted for Trump in 2016 but is having second thoughts today.
"I have a lot of mixed feelings. I did vote for him four years or eight years ago, but I really don't know that he is what we need in this country right now.
"I just think that he is such a polarising person.
"And right now this country has [swung] so far left and right that we really need somebody to bring the country together and, I'll be honest, I don't know that either Biden or Trump are going to be the one that's going to do that."
Michelle isn't the only supporter Trump has lost since she, and they, backed him in 2016.
They are the Republican-leaning voters who have taken a step back from him in this primary season.
Their number is a measure of the difficulty Trump has in reeling in an alienated support, beyond his MAGA base, that got him to the White House once but is resisting doing so a second time.
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Trump is addressing the challenge of reeling them back in, now that he's all but won the nomination.
In his Mar-a-Lago speech on Tuesday night, it was Donald "the healer" who took to the stage, with talk of unity for Republicans and for the country.
The irony won't be lost on a party he ripped apart, in a country whose unity he has tested like few others.