Former US President Donald Trump, between 2017 and 2021, was declared the winner of the Republican caucuses this Saturday in the states of Idaho, Missouri and Michigan, according to the first projections released by media such as NBC News and CNN.
Trump thus prevailed over the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, and continues his streak of victories on his way to being named as the Republican party candidate who will compete in the November presidential elections.
The former president thus arrives even stronger for ‘Super Tuesday’, which will be next March 5, a key event in the race for the US presidency, in which 16 states will have their primary elections.
Trump, getting closer to the nomination
So far, Trump has managed to win all the primaries and caucuses that the Republican Party has had in states such as Iowa, South Carolina or Nevada.
Each of these internal processes is assigned a proportional number of delegates, who will name a candidate in July, at the National Convention of the Republican Party in Milwaukee.
In total there are 2,429 delegates and a candidate must win at least 1,215 to secure the nomination.
For now, Trump has 244, according to a count in The Washington Post today, while Haley has 24.
Super Tuesday, key for Trump
Despite this, the former representative of the United States to the UN continues in the race and, for now, will continue in it next Tuesday, where a total of 874 delegates are at stake.
The Idaho caucuses gave 32 delegates today; Missourians 54; while in Michigan the second part of the process was held and through a state party convention 39 were distributed, after another 16 were distributed last Tuesday in the caucuses in which citizens participated.
Since the date of the state’s primary elections violates the rules of the Republican party, Michigan divides its process in two – a caucus and a convention -, one more peculiarity of the complex and calendar of elections in the United States.
Without brakes despite its legal problems
With these new victories, everything seems to indicate that nothing can stop Trump, not even all the pending cases he has with justice, including four criminal trials for crimes such as the attempt to invalidate the elections, bribery, the retention of classified documents or his participation in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
If everything goes as before and Republican supporters continue to support him, on November 5 he will face President Joe Biden, the foreseeable Democratic candidate, at the polls.
With information from EFE.
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2024-03-03 18:39:04
