Former President Donald Trump won the Missouri Republican caucus, defeating former Governor Nikki Haley (R-South Carolina).
Associated Press called President Trump’s caucus at 12:40 p.m. ET. As of 2:05 p.m., Trump had won 100% of the 247 votes cast by delegates across the state, while Haley had won 100% of the more than 900 statewide delegates, according to the Associated Press. It was said that he did not receive a single vote.
Missouri will have 54 national delegates, and Saturday’s caucuses will begin the allocation process, according to the Associated Press Note:
Fifty-one of those will be awarded to candidates through a month-long process starting Saturday. Candidates at the statewide level are awarded 11 delegates, with each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts receiving five delegates. This amounts to a total of 51 delegates contested in the so-called “caucus” system. The remaining three delegates are the state party chairman and the Missouri Republican National Committeeman, who can support any candidate of their choice regardless of the caucus results.
Trump thanked Missourians on social media after he was declared the winner.
“Thank you, Missouri! Together, we are going to make America great again!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
It will be one of three contests for the Republican nomination to be held on Saturday, with the Michigan convention and the Idaho caucuses also taking place.
Trump’s victory comes in Tuesday’s Michigan Republican primary, with 16 of the state’s 55 delegates tied up, and his last remaining rival, Haley, by more than 40 points. This comes on the heels of a victory by a wide margin. The rest will be allocated at the state convention. Before that, on February 27, Haley suffered an embarrassing loss in her home state of South Carolina.
Saturday’s loss in Missouri also follows Haley’s first endorsement from the U.S. Senate on Friday. Haley won support from moderate Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). By comparison, Trump is closing in on the support of more than two dozen senators.
