Nikki Haley wins D.C. primary, her first victory in GOP race

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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley gained her first contest within the Republican presidential nomination race on Sunday after triumphing in Washington, D.C.’s major. It gained’t seemingly change the competition’s trajectory.

After three days of voting, polls within the Washington race closed at 7 p.m. Jap on Sunday. Although solely 19 delegates had been stake, Haley maybe had her greatest likelihood of defeating Trump in a race the place he performed poorly within the final aggressive GOP presidential contest in 2016. That 12 months, Trump misplaced the D.C. major to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — a uncommon defeat for Trump in that GOP race.

In contrast to Trump, Haley campaigned in Washington forward of the first, visiting the town on Friday.

The Washington major was small in measurement in comparison with different states, and Republicans in D.C. solid ballots on the Madison Lodge. The election was managed by the D.C. GOP.

In keeping with the D.C. GOP, the weekend election was held at “the earliest potential time underneath social gathering guidelines.” A GOP June major in D.C. — when Democrats will maintain their very own major — would have violated the nationwide GOP’s guidelines, which prohibit primaries meant to allocate delegates to the Republican Nationwide Conference from occurring lower than 45 days earlier than the conference is held on July 15. This implies social gathering chapters have to carry their primaries by Could 31, 2024.

The Washington contest came about after Trump racked up three wins over the weekend in Missouri, Michigan and Idaho.

Michigan Republican officers and different preselected social gathering members awarded Trump all 39 of the delegates up for grabs at their caucus conference in Grand Rapids. The previous president additionally gained a lot of the 16 delegates that had been allotted based mostly on Michigan’s statewide major earlier within the week. Trump gained each delegate in Idaho’s caucuses as nicely, and the Related Press projected a victory for him in Missouri, as Republican voters throughout the 2 states made their choice at party-run conferences.

Earlier than Washington’s major on Sunday, Trump had 244 delegates in comparison with simply 24 for Haley.

That’s a frightening edge as the 2 Republicans head into Tremendous Tuesday on March 5, when 15 states vote and a 3rd of GOP delegates are at stale. Regardless of polling drastically behind Trump, Haley has promised to remain within the Republican major till no less than Tremendous Tuesday. It’s unclear what she’ll do after that time.