On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, voters in 16 states participated in the GOP Presidential Primary, delivering 15 wins to Trump and one to Haley, who won Vermont. This followed wins by Trump in the previous week in Michigan, Iowa, and Missouri, leaving him with a delegate total of 1,059 to Haley’s 93. 1,215 delegates are needed to secure the nomination.
Following the loss, Haley, who relied heavily on Democrat donors and voters to get as far as she did, suspended her campaign, but refused to endorse Trump for President, claiming he would have to earn her vote and the votes of her supporters.
Nikki Haley exits Republican presidential race – KTEN – www.kten.com
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After Trump won more than 50% of the vote in Iowa, where Haley placed a distant third, members of the Republican Party quickly consolidated around the former president and endorsed him. Former 2024 candidates, including biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, campaigned with Trump on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also took a parting shot at Haley as he exited the field, calling her platform “a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism.”
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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has scored a surprise victory on Super Tuesday, upsetting Donald Trump to win Vermont.
That victory will do little to dent Trump’s primary dominance, however. The former president won 11 other states on Super Tuesday.
Haley is the last major rival to Trump standing in a once-crowded primary field. She has increasingly stepped up her attacks on the former president, arguing that he will lose in November to President Joe Biden if he clinches the party’s nomination.
On the Democratic side, Biden also ran up the score with wins all around the country against only token primary opposition — all but cementing the long-expected November rematch between him and Trump.
Donald Trump wins Missouri, Idaho caucuses, Michigan GOP convention – www.ctvnews.ca
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Former U.S. president Donald Trump continued his march toward the GOP nomination on Saturday, winning the Missouri caucuses and sweeping the delegate haul at a party convention in Michigan. Idaho Republicans planned to caucus later.
Trump earned every delegate at stake on Saturday, bringing his count to 244 compared to 24 for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. A candidate needs to secure 1,215 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination.
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Paul Collier
Paul Collier is the editor of The Freedomist newsite, our Weekday Reports, and our Monthly Publication, Freedomist Intelligence Advisor (previously McAlvany Intelligence Advisor). He has been involved in news publishing since 2003.
