Nikki Haley won her first victory, but is still far from Donald Trump in the Republican primaries – Diario La Página – 2024-03-06 04:49:58

The former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, achieved her first victory in a primary this Sunday after managing to declare herself the winner against former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in the US capital, Washington DC.

According to the first projections from media such as CNN and NBC News, the former United States representative to the UN achieved 63% of the votes compared to Trump’s 33% in the Republican Party primaries that were held this weekend in the capital.

A merely symbolic victory because DC only has 19 delegates out of the 2,429 that the country has, but it comes before a key event, ‘Super Tuesday’, in which 16 states hold primaries on the 5th.

As another peculiarity of the complex and lengthy system for electing presidential candidates in the United States, the DC primaries have lasted three days, starting last Friday and lasting until this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. local time (00:00 GMT). , that the polls have closed.

Since Haley has achieved more than 50% of the votes, she is entitled to the full 19 delegates, as stipulated by the rules of the DC primaries (it is different in each state).

With this Sunday’s 19, the Republican has a total of 43 delegates, still very far from the 244 that Trump has after winning the rest of the processes that have been held so far, among them in the Iowa caucuses or Michigan or in the South Carolina primaries.

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.

The country’s capital, which is one of the most Democratic cities in the United States and a city that Trump usually attacks in his speeches, has broken the former president’s goal of remaining undefeated, just before ‘Super Tuesday’, in which Republicans will elect 865 delegates, 35.6% of the total.

This year there will be 15 states that will vote on Tuesday: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. So will the territory of American Samoa.

Likewise, during that day the results of the Democratic contest in Iowa, which was held by mail for several weeks, will also be known. The Republican Party, meanwhile, held its caucus in that state in mid-January.