The only alternative Republican candidate to Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, suffered a resounding defeat on Tuesday in the Nevada primaries, which had a symbolic nature, as they did not distribute delegates to the party’s national convention, which will elect the Republican candidate for the presidency in July. White House. She received only 30.5% of the votes, less than half of the winning option, “none of the candidates”, which took 63.2% of the ballots.
This option actually represented his rival, Trump, who did not participate in the primaries because he will run in a different contest this Thursday, under the format of caucuses (citizen assemblies), which will distribute delegates. The former president will take all of the 26 representatives contested in this state to the national convention, since Haley decided not to participate in that format.
The Republican Party established that candidates had to choose between attending the primaries or the caucuses, and only awarded delegates to the second format. Haley’s team, which did not campaign in Nevada, very close to the magnate, to focus on the “states that are fair”, has denounced this situation: “Even Trump knows that when you play slot machines, the house always wins,” he said. spokesperson Olivia Pérez-Cubas, referring to the casino industry in Las Vegas (Nevada). “We are not bothering to play a rigged game for Trump. We are focused on South Carolina and beyond.”
The next key primary event will be in the state of which Haley was governor from 2011 to 2017, South Carolina, on February 24. There, Haley has 31.9% of voting intention, compared to Trump’s 63%, according to the FiveThirtyEight survey collection model. A resounding defeat in that state would leave her very shaken and could mean the end of her career towards the White House, although only 50 of the 2,429 delegates who will vote in July in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) will be distributed for the Republican candidate.
For his part, Joe Biden achieved another long-awaited victory in the Nevada primaries, which in the case of the Democratic Party did serve to elect delegates. Without firm opposition in his party, he won 89.3% and obtained the 36 delegates that his party distributed in that western American state.
