By Carina Stathis for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 7:57 PM EDT, March 10, 2024 | Updated: 5:56 AM EDT, March 11, 2024

Donald Trump moved closer to a rematch with Joe Biden in November when he defeated Nikki Haley, his last rival for the Republican nomination, on Super Tuesday.

The former president, 77, dominated the biggest day of primaries. He won 11 states by 9:30 p.m., leaving the former South Carolina governor’s dreams of the White House hanging by a thread.

Trump quickly won overwhelming victories in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Maine, Alabama, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado and Minnesota.

Haley is still clinging to a glimmer of hope in Vermont, where she is neck-and-neck with Trump with about half the votes counted.

Elsewhere, she didn’t come close as Trump, the runaway Republican frontrunner, headed full steam ahead into the November general election.

The results of Super Tuesday cemented his absolute control over the Republican Party and led to increasing calls for Haley to quit the race.

Meanwhile, Biden is making gains on the Democratic side as polls close across the country. He faces only token opposition for his party’s presidential nomination.

And Trump’s string of victories on Tuesday night will make it virtually impossible mathematically for Haley to catch the former president.

Tuesday’s elections will award more than a third of Republican delegates — and more than 70% of the number needed to secure the nomination.

Haley pledged to stay in the race until the Super Tuesday contests but has made no other promises, and her campaign has no public events planned on Tuesday or beyond.

She is at her home in South Carolina and will not make any public comments. Trump is expected to address supporters at Mar-a-Lago later Tuesday evening.

Biden will be kept informed of the election results by his staff throughout the night, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

Both the Biden and Trump camps are preparing for a rematch, tooThe earliest nominations for his party are March 12 for Trump and March 19 for Biden.

But after Tuesday, the battle for the general election will effectively begin. Both men are ready.

“We have to beat Biden — he’s the worst president in history,” Trump told Fox & Friends on Tuesday.

“If we lose this election, you’re going to come back to Donald Trump,” Biden said on the DeDe in the Morning radio show in North Carolina. “The way he talks, the way he acted, the way he treated the African-American community, I think it’s a disgrace.”

However, voters appear unenthusiastic about a repeat of the 2020 election, which Biden won and Trump wrongly claimed victory. Polls show that a majority of voters wanted an option other than Biden or Trump.

So now each campaign will have to focus on rallying their supporters and convincing independent voters to come to the polls this November.

And the candidates will hit the road to make their case to the American people.

On Saturday, Biden and Trump will hold separate campaign events in Georgia, a critical battleground state. No interaction is expected from them.

Biden became the first Democrat since Bill Clinton to win Georgia in 2020. Trump was convinced he had won the country and now faces federal and state charges over his efforts to overturn the results there.

JonBenét Ramsey’s ‘confessed killer’ Gary Oliva has been pictured out for the first time since he was released from prison for child pornography charges. 

Oliva, 60, admitted to killing the six-year-old beauty pageant star ‘by accident’ in confession letters exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com. 

The 60-year-old is a convicted pedophile was was previously serving a 10-year-sentence in a Colorado prison for child pornography, but was let out two years early and has been roaming freely since January 31. He has not been charged with her murder, despite his repeated confessions.

He was pictured on February 28 outside of the halfway house where he is currently residing in Denver, Colorado.

Wearing an all black outfit with his hood up, Oliva was seen standing with his hands in his pockets as he scowled and surveyed his surroundings in pictures first published by The U.S. Sun. 

Oliva was caught in 2016 after he uploaded images depicting children being abused to his personal Gmail account on public Wi-Fi connections all over Boulder, Colorado.

He was found to be in possession of 695 images depicting child pornography on his phone.

The pedophile also had 335 photos of and relating to JonBenét.

The young pageant queen was found dead on December 26, 1996, after she was reported missing from her home in Boulder, Colorado.

Her parents, Patsy and John, had woken up early to get ready for a trip, when the mother discovered a ransom note on the stairs demanding $118,000 for their daughter’s safe return. 

Despite the note’s warning to not involve the authorities, Patsy immediately called the police and they arrived at the home at 5:55 am.

JonBenét was found dead in the basement of the home with an autopsy later revealing that her cause of death was strangulation.

Oliva was a longtime suspect in the murder case, and in letters sent to a high school classmate he admitted that he had killed JonBenét, but said it was an ‘accident’ and that she ‘slipped.’

The pedophile, who was once jailed for trying to strangle his mother, wrote: ‘I never loved anyone like I did JonBenét and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die. It was an accident. Please believe me. She was not like the other kids.’ 

In another letter, Oliva wrote, ‘JonBenét completely changed me and removed all evil from me. Just one look at her beautiful face, her glowing beautiful skin, and her divine God-body, I realized I was wrong to kill other kids. Yet by accident she died and it was my fault.’

The letters were sent to music publicist Michael Vail, a former high school classmate of Oliva’s.

In an interview with Dr. Oz, Vail was asked: ‘Are you concerned at all that because of a deeper mental illness or had she had another mental illness, Gary’s obsessed with JonBenét could be confab leading all this making it up?’

Guest commentator Nancy Grace interrupted, asking bluntly: ‘Did he say he wanted to eat JonBenét?’

‘Yeah,’ responded Vail.

That managed to stun Dr. Oz, who looked at his guest and said: ‘I’m sorry, say that again.’

Vail, who seems to be in disbelief himself, explained: ‘Yeah. I know it’s some pretty heavy duty stuff, he’s just talking about cannibalism.’

The old classmate of Oliva then revealed other disturbing statements that he had overheard his friend say.

‘Gary would break into the University of Boulder Colorado. There was a skeleton in there and he wanted to taste what human bones would taste like,’ says Vail.

‘So he tried biting the skeleton and he told me how disappointed it was that was covered with shellac, and he couldn’t taste the bone.’

Oliva, who admitted his obsession with JonBenét, was homeless and sleeping on the streets of Boulder at the time of her killing.

He frequently visited the University of Colorado campus and hung in and around the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center, where he collected his mail and hung out with other homeless people in the parking lot, according to the US Sun.

The University of Colorado campus is less than a mile away from JonBenét’s home – and the church is just 13 houses away. 

There was a long alleyway running behind the properties that connected the church to the Ramsey’s house, meaning that someone could move between the two locations easily and potentially undetected.

JonBenét’s window was also visible from the alleyway.  

Despite Oliva’s confessions and his history of child sex abuse, there are other suspects in the unsolved case. 

Patsy Ramsey had been a longtime suspect in the death of her daughter, with conspiracists speculating that she lost her temper with the little girl and killed her, only to then try and cover it up with a fake ransom note.

Both Patsy and John were formally exonerated in 2008 thanks to developments in DNA technology, though many suspect that the mother still played a hand in her daughter’s death.

Patsy, who died in 2006, had her handwriting analyzed by experts to see whether it matched the writing on the ransom note.

John confirmed in December that a new handwriting analysis proves his wife’s innocence and further points to convicted pedophile Gary Oliva as the real perpetrator who killed his six-year-old pageant queen daughter. 

Two handwriting experts, Mozelle Martin and Dawn McCarty, conducted independent analyses obtained by The U.S. Sun, finding significant similarities between Oliva’s writing and the ransom note of the killer.

The bombshell report revealed a score of 1.75 on a scale of 1 to 5 – with 1 being a definitive, identical match to the ransom note.

McCarty told The U.S. Sun, ‘You can’t make this up…. two separate sets of documents by two different authors that have the exact same spacing and all the consistent inconsistencies, how could that possibly be?’

Another suspect in the murder of JonBenét was John Mark Karr, 58, who claimed 17 years ago that he was with JonBenét when she died.

He said her death was an ‘accident’ and that he had loved her and was ‘very sorry for what happened to JonBenét.’ 

In 2006, authorities extradited Karr from Thailand but were ultimately unable to link him to the scene of the crime and so felt compelled to release him.

In an interview with The Messenger, Karr said: ‘I am not crazy. I am not delusional.’

‘There’s so much more to my story,’ he said, adding that he has ‘been investigated by the FBI for many more crimes’ and is living outside the US ‘for my own safety.’

Though most ultimately dismissed Karr’s claims about being at the scene as elaborate lies, not everyone thought the tale was meritless.

‘Everyone was so quick to say that I was a liar or delusional,’ he said. ‘Did it ever occur to someone that I might have been trying to protect someone else?’

He declined to elaborate, but one possible explanation that some police were open to at the time is that Ramsey’s killer did not work alone.

When asked if he was with JonBenét when she died, or if he had killed her, Karr shut up and said he did not want to incriminate himself as the case continues to be investigated nearly 27 years after the crime.

Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson snapped back at her family after being confronted about her indecision to go to college in Colorado without her boyfriend, Dralin Carswell. 

In the latest episode of Mama June: Family Crisis titled School Daze, the TV personality, 18, was revealed to only have one week to decide whether she will attend school before losing a $21,000 scholarship.

Back in July 2023, Alana was accepted to Regis University in Denver to pursue a degree in nursing. However, due to Dralin, 22, facing legal issues, the star has been contemplating whether she will go to Colorado without him. 

Her sister Lauryn ‘Pumpkin,’ found out about the possibility of Alana losing her scholarship through her daughter Ella – who spilled that Honey Boo Boo had received an email from the university. 

Frustrated over her younger sister not telling her about the email, Pumpkin opened about her feelings over the topic and said she would enlist in some help. 

‘You know, I’m so sick of Alana being all over the place, whether she wants to go to Colorado or she doesn’t. So how about now it’s time to bring in some sister support?’ she said in a confessional. 

In the next scene during the episode, Lauryn was seen stepping into a bathroom to have a private call with sister, Jessica – who also attended college. 

At one point, Pumpkin told Jessica that she needs to ‘step up’ while adding, ‘I need you real bad, okay? Because we’re both under the understanding that Alana needs and should go to Colorado.’ 

‘So I feel like if we leave Mom out of the situation, it’ll maybe make Alana more prone to make her decision.’ 

Jessica agrees to talk one-on-one with Honey Boo Boo, but both sisters discuss how to make the situation not suspicious. Eventually, Jessica decides that she will take Alana to get her nails done and will find a way to ease into the topic of school. 

The next day, the 18-year-old joined her sister for a bit of pampering at a nail salon, and the pair initially discussed her high school graduation and how Mama June’s sister, Aunt Doe Doe, didn’t show up. 

Honey Boo Boo explained that afterwards, she had stopped by the house to give her a present and to apologize for not being there. ‘Like really, I don’t care because you should have been there.’ 

She then brought up that Aunt Doe Doe might have been ‘jealous’ that Mama June was back in their lives but added, ‘People that wanted to be there were there.’ 

Eventually, the topic of university came up and Alana admitted that she was still unsure what she planned to do. 

Jessica tried to convince her to attend the school by saying, ‘I mean, think about it, Alana. We’re the only two that graduated high school.’ 

She also explained, ‘Do you know how many people don’t go to college, don’t get to experience it? Nobody tells you what to do. You’re grown. If you want to stay up and eat ice cream till 7:00 in the morning, guess what you can do? Eat ice cream till 7:00 in the morning.’ 

‘You see this little small town we live in? There’s nothing for you. Me and you can both be graduates of college. I was the first one to graduate. You can be the second one and do better than me and go off and actually be a nurse and outshine everybody.’

‘And then when you do all that stuff, you turn around and you look at all these people in this small town and you say, “F*** you,” I did it. Don’t you want to adventure out, see new things, meet new people?’

Jessica also told her, ‘It took me forever to figure out who I was and now I’m happy. And that’s what I want for you. I want you to be living free and happy.’ 

However, Alana explained, ‘I mean, I want to go to Colorado, but with everything with Dralin and stuff…[it’s] a hard decision right now.’ 

After expressing her worries over Honey Boo Boo taking a break by not going to college, Alana replied with, ‘Right now, I don’t want to talk about school, Jessie. I want to relax.’

‘I think, like, you’re giving me the vibe that Pumpkin has done put you up to something. I really didn’t want you to sit here and lecture me about college.’ 

She then brought up what her late sister Anna had said at her graduation party. ‘Everybody needs to stay out of my business and shut the hell up.’ 

After getting their nails done, Honey Boo Boo confronted Pumpkin about going behind her back to have Jessica confront her over college. 

Lauryn explained that Ella told her about the email and Alana replied, ‘You can’t trust nobody in this family! Everybody in this family must have a loud mouth.’ 

She later added, ‘Why you can’t just give me a break? You pounding me and everything’s just going on right now, y’all are doing too much. I understand you’re trying to be like the mom now. Just give it a rest.’ 

The confrontation ended with Pumpkin saying, ‘Well, you’re going, so I don’t care,’ causing Honey Boo Boo to yell, ‘Oh my God,’ and walked out of the room. 

Lauryn continued to take matters into her own hands by calling Mama June over Alana’s indecision and to get advice over Dralin’s legal situation. 

He allegedly drove under the influence back in February 2023 and spent two days in Monroe County jail before being released on a $25,000 bond. 

In October, a court clerk confirmed to The Sun that Dralin had pleaded not guilty to four charges after being arraigned. 

Pumpkin called Dralin and asked whether he had contacted the bondsman and he revealed he did not. He admitted he was afraid he will be told he cannot go to Colorado with Alana. 

Lauryn then told him that if he doesn’t go to the bondsman on his own, she will personally take Dralin. 

Elsewhere in the episode, when Jessica and Alana were at the nail salon, Pumpkin met up with Aunt Doe Doe at a restaurant. 

The pair discussed Doe Doe’s absence from Honey Boo Boo’s graduation and the topic of her possibly not going to college came up. 

Lauryn revealed that Alana received an email warning her that ‘she had a week to decide if she’s going to go or not,’ and she added concerningly, ‘If she chooses not to answer within a week, the scholarship can be gone.’ 

‘So now I have to figure out about Dralin and s***,’ she said, to which Jo replied: ‘Who cares about Dralin’s stuff. I’m sorry, I like the dude, but this is her future.’

Lauryn commented, ‘But let’s be real, Alana’s not going to go out there, unless he can go out there.’

Jo shared in her confessional: ‘Alana not going to college because of Dralin – I don’t think so. She don’t need to follow in her mama’s footsteps. I mean, that’s all June used to do. Well, and still does. Men before anything else.’ 

‘She cannot follow her mother’s footsteps, who followed our mother’s footsteps. Let’s break the cycle. Stop following the man. Do it on your own.’

The scene transitioned back to the restaurant as Jo asked Lauryn, ‘So how the f*** do we get Alana to Colorado in a week?’

Lauryn said, ‘I am trying so hard. I just don’t know what to do about Dralin and stuff.’ The aunt replied firmly, ‘Put his a** in a car and go to an attorney or the bail bond or the court or whoever you got to go to and figure something out.’

Lauryn asked ‘What if Alana doesn’t want me to get involved?’ The aunt responded, ‘Who cares? She’ll get over it when she’s working in a field that’s her passion, making bank. She’ll be grateful. Oh my God, thank you for doing that.’

Lauryn confessed, ‘Well it’s hard being everybody’s f***ing mama,’ with Jo saying, ‘Tell me about it. Done that, been there.’

Alana graduated high school in May and she was the second person in her family to get accepted into college and is hoping to pursue nursing.

Also during the latest episode, Mama June was seen at the hospital with late daughter, Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell, who was on her fourth and final round of chemotherapy. 

In January 2023, she was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cancer. June briefly filmed while inside the hospital and when the treatment for the day was done, the pair were joined by Mama’s husband, Justin. 

The trio drove to a rental home in Atlanta to be near the hospital and were soon visited by Lauryn, who brought up the topic of Anna’s two daughters: Kaitlyn, 11, and Kylee, eight. 

Anna expressed that she felt the chemotherapy was working, but Lauryn insisted that she still needed to prioritize getting her affairs in order. 

Pumpkin told Mama June as the pair moved to talk outside, ‘She is not living in reality at all, Mama, like she does not realize she’s gonna die. I think she knows that she’s gonna die,’ with June adding, ‘But she doesn’t want to face it.’ 

Mama then told Lauryn that she had been looking into policies on her own but there wasn’t much she was able to do since most steps needed to be done by Anna herself.

‘I’m kinda shocked that Mama was even looking into life insurance policies for the girls and for Anna,’ Pumpkin said in a confessional. 

‘But honestly, I think that is very important because girls are top priority. Anna’s husband Eldridge [Toney] isn’t even the biological father of the two kids.’ 

‘Kylee, her dad is still in the picture. So legally, he would get custody of her. But you know, with Kaitlyn she doesn’t have a dad around or in the picture at all. So it’s like, where’s she gonna go?’ 

Pumpkin told Mama June, ‘The cancer part wouldn’t be so bad if she would just fix the stuff that needs to be fixed, get her affairs in order and then we’d all be able to just hang out and worry about spending time with her.’ 

June later told Justin that both she and Lauryn, ‘feel like and the reason why she’s kind of dragging her feet is because then that makes it real, like “Hey, I’m not gonna be around like see Kaitlyn graduate high school, I’m not gonna be around to see Kylee graduate.”‘ 

Both June and Justin further discussed buying a house in case Anna went into hospice. ‘She’s gonna have to be with us, she’s gonna have to be watched 24/7.’ 

Justin also said in a confessional, ‘If me and June do end up with custody of Kaitlyn, it’s gonna be a big adjustment. Taking care of a kid is a huge responsibility, but if that’s something that we need to do.’ 

Anna passed away in December 2023 at the age of 29. Her daughter Kylee is under custody of her biological father Michael Cardwell and Kaitlyn is reportedly living with Mama June.  

By Freddy Pawle for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 7:54 PM EST, February 7, 2024 | Updated: 8:18 PM EST, February 7, 2024