Former US President Donald Trump has declared himself the winner of the Republican caucuses held this Saturday in the states of Idaho, Missouri and Michigan.
Trump has thus prevailed over the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, and continues his streak of victories on his way to being named the Republican candidate who will go to the presidential elections in November.
The former president thus arrives even stronger for ‘Super Tuesday’, which will be held next March 5, a key event in the presidential race, in which 16 states will hold primary elections.
So far, Trump has managed to win all the primaries and caucuses that the Republican Party has held 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 available and a candidate must win at least 1,215 to secure the nomination.
For now, Trump has accumulated 244, according to a count by The Washington Post updated today, while Haley has 24.
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 handed out 32 delegates today. With 95% of the votes counted, Trump won 85% of support while Haley got 13.1%.
Missouri, instead of a raw vote count, offered a tally of how many of the 51 state delegates each candidate has won. This time, 100% went to Trump.
Another three delegates of the 54 that correspond to the state will be distributed at the state party convention on May 4.
Meanwhile, in Michigan the second part of the primary process was held and through a state party convention 39 delegates 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 into two – a caucus and a convention -, one more peculiarity of the complex and lengthy primary calendar in the United States.
With these new victories, everything seems to indicate that nothing can stop the former president, not even all the pending cases he has with the justice system, including four criminal trials for crimes such as the attempt to invalidate the elections, bribery, and 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.
