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LAS VEGAS – There was never a doubt about it, but now it’s official.
Former President Donald Trump is expected to win Nevada’s Republican presidential caucus, according to the Associated Press.
Thursday night’s call came shortly after caucus precincts across the Silver State began reporting results.
The former president, who is running for the White House for the third consecutive year and is a strong front-runner for the 2024 nomination, was on the ballot at the Nevada Republican Party’s caucus, which will have 26 delegates participating in this summer’s nominating convention. He was the only major candidate. We were recruiting.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump makes a motion before speaking at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Saturday, January 27, 2024. (AP Photo/John Locher) (AP Photo/John Roche)
Trump’s victory in Nevada came hours after the U.S. Virgin Islands Republican presidential caucus gave him about three-quarters of the votes for a land victory.
He also won Nevada’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, although he did not participate in the vote.
Trump’s absence from the primary vote was not enough to provide a path to victory for Nikki Haley, the former president’s last viable rival for the 2024 Republican nomination.
The former South Carolina governor, who served two terms and later served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, voted more than 2-1 for “none of these candidates” on Tuesday in a primary election in which Republican convention delegates were absent. We lost by the difference. stake.
Voters voting in the primary could not write Trump’s name, but they could “not vote for any of these candidates.” And a Trump supporter interviewed by Fox News outside the polling place said that’s how he voted.
Confusion over the holding of two competing election campaigns dates back to 2021. That’s when Democrats, who at the time controlled both the Nevada governor’s office and the state legislature, passed a bill that would change presidential nomination contests from longstanding caucuses to state-sponsored primaries.
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A legal proposal to block the primary was defeated last year, although the Nevada Republican Party opposed it. After many twists and turns, the judge in the case allowed the state Republican Party to hold its own caucus. No delegates will be contested in the Republican primary, but all 26 will be contested in the Republican caucus.
The state Republican Party has ruled that candidates whose names appear on the state’s primary ballot cannot participate in the caucuses.
Republican voters wait to enter the Republican presidential caucus at Lois and Jerry Tarkaninan Middle School on February 8, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Fox News – Monica Oros)
Haley and some other already-resigned Republican presidential candidates considered the Nevada Republican Party too loyal to President Trump and decided to skip the caucuses that were expected to tilt in favor of the former president.
Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald and both state Republican National Committee members have endorsed Trump.
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“Nevada, this is total fraud. They were supposed to have a primary. Trump engineered an indicted Republican Party chairman to launch a caucus,” Haley said Wednesday. .
“We knew there was fraud from the beginning,” Haley said in separate interviews with Fox News Digital and FOX11 Los Angeles while campaigning in Southern California.
In response, MacDonald argued that Haley was “not really a serious candidate.”
“The fact is, she didn’t show up. She didn’t campaign in Nevada, and she didn’t win ‘none of the above’ or ‘none of the above,'” the Nevada Republican Party chairman said on FOX. He told News Digital.
Republican presidential candidates had to choose between caucus and primary ballots, but registered Republicans in Nevada can vote in both elections.
Trump’s campaign worked to get the message across to his supporters in Nevada that if they want to vote for the former president, they need to attend the caucuses.
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“Primaries mean nothing. They’re caucus votes,” President Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas late last month. “That means your state has both primaries and caucuses. Don’t worry about the primaries, just do the caucuses.”
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Trump supporter, told the Nevada Independent last month that he would not vote for “any of these candidates” in the primary and would not vote for Trump in the state Republican race. He said he plans to hold a caucus meeting.
“Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada” sign on February 6, 2024. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Haley ignored the Nevada primary even though her name was on the ballot.
Haley did not campaign in Nevada ahead of the primary and has not visited the state since speaking at the Republican Jewish Federation’s annual leadership conference in late October.
“We’ve known for months that we weren’t going to spend a single dollar a day in Nevada because it wasn’t worth it. So we didn’t count Nevada either. That’s not something we were considering. It wasn’t,” Haley stressed Wednesday.
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As vote counting continued Tuesday night, the former president took aim at Haley on the Truth social network.
“Bad night for Nikki Haley, who lost in Nevada to ‘None of These Candidates’ by almost 30 points.” Look, she will soon be victorious! ” he insisted.
Looking ahead, Haley reiterated, “Our focus is on South Carolina, Michigan and Super Tuesday.”
Next up on the Republican presidential nomination calendar is South Carolina, with its primary on February 24th. Michigan’s primary will be held three days after South Carolina’s. Fifteen states, including the giant states of California and Texas, will hold contests a week later on Super Tuesday.
Haley’s two campaign stops in California on Wednesday were her first in the Super Tuesday state. And the swing to the Golden State appears to be a beacon for Ms. Haley, who is resisting calls from some Republicans to withdraw from the race and abandon her climb to the nomination.
The trip also included a series of fundraisers. And as Fox News Digital first reported Wednesday, Haley raised $1.7 million during her two days in California.
This week’s election is just the appetizer for Nevada, which will be a key battleground state in the general election and will be the site of much campaigning this summer and fall.
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