Former President Donald Trump scored two resounding electoral victories on Saturday, winning the Republican Party caucuses in Missouri and Idaho by significant margins. The following day, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley notched her first primary win in Washington DC, showing that there is a strong support for her campaign in the nation’s capital.
In Missouri, the first caucus to reach a decision on Saturday, Trump secured 924 statewide delegates, while zero went to Haley. The Associated Press called the race in Trump’s favor within two hours. Per the New York Times, Missouri determines caucus victory by delegates acquired, not by overall vote percentage. The winner of the caucus receives 51 of the state’s 54 national delegates, with the other three—the state party chairman and Missouri’s Republican national committeeman and committeewoman—casting their votes for whichever candidate they wish.
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A short time later, Idaho also returned a victory for Trump, with the former President securing 84.6 percent of the vote to Haley’s 13.5 percent. With 77 percent of the vote counted by Saturday night, Idaho GOP Chairwoman Dorothy Moon called the matchup in Trump’s favor, “reaffirming Idaho’s status as ‘Trump Country’ with his resounding victory in our caucus.”
“The enthusiasm and dedication of supporters in Idaho is emblematic of the strength and unity of our party,” Moon continued in a statement. “Trump’s agenda is what strengthened our nation before, and it will once more. To secure our southern border, grow our flailing economy, and shield our nation from the radical leftist agenda, it is imperative that we rally together as a united party.”
On Sunday, Haley finally secured her first primary victory in Washington, DC, winning the contest 63 percent to 33 percent. As the former governor and her campaign surrogates celebrated on social media, this made Haley the first woman to win a Republican primary in US history.
HISTORY: @NikkiHaley becomes the first woman to win a GOP presidential primary https://t.co/ICdjAdevLh
— Jackson Richman (@jacksonrichman) March 4, 2024
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The Trump campaign also took to social media to address her win, declaring that “she was just crowned Queen of the Swamp by the lobbyists and DC insiders that want to protect the failed status quo.”
Ahead of her victory in the nation’s capital, Haley told NBC News that she no longer feels bound by a previous pledge to support the eventual RNC nominee—a promise required for participation in the primary debates. Given that “the RNC is now not the same RNC” that presided over the debates, Haley declared that “make what decision I want to make” when the Republican convention arrives.
Following her DC victory, Nikki Haley now has 43 total delegates, compared to Donald Trump’s 244. A candidate needs 1,215 to secure the nomination.
The next major contests in the Republican race are the North Dakota caucus on Monday and Super Tuesday on March 5th, when 16 states will hold primaries simultaneously. If these contests play out as expected, Trump will be on his way to securing the party nomination a few days later.
Connor Walcott is a staff writer for Valuetainment.com. Follow Connor on X and look for him on VT’s “The Unusual Suspects.”
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