Nikki Haley wins her first primary: she gets 62% in Columbia County

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The Republican presidential primaries took place yesterday in Michigan, Idaho and Missouri. Donald Trump won all three states easily. In Michigan, as I already said, the party decided to hold both primaries and caucuses. In the primaries, Trump received 12 delegates, and Nikki Haley received 4. But at the caucus, which many party activists ignored due to a split in the local party branch (200 party members were denied participation), Trump was delegated all 39 delegates. In Idaho, the local legislature abolished primaries for both Democrats and Republicans, replacing them with caucuses. As a result, turnout fell from 113 in 2020 to 38 this year. Trump received 85% of the vote and all 32 delegates.

Similarly, the primaries were canceled in Missouri, although Democrats plan to hold their own elections by mail on March 23 instead of a caucus. And if in 2020 305 thousand people voted in the Republican primaries, this time we don’t even know about the turnout at the caucus. The party said only that Trump secured the unanimous support of 924 district delegates and will win all 51 delegates at the convention. Trump received 122 delegates yesterday, giving him a total of 244 of the 1215 delegates needed to win. The District of Columbia primary will also be held today, and the North Dakota caucus will be held tomorrow.

The largest number of delegates will be distributed tomorrow, March 5 on Super Tuesday, when primaries and caucuses will be held in 15 states at once: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. It is very likely that after this, Haley will not even have a mathematical chance of winning, and she will drop out of the race.

Author: Yan Veselov