Former President Trump is widening his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024 as he seeks a third consecutive White House bid, won three races in a landslide on Saturday.
Trump’s last remaining rival in the nomination race, former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, won her first primary victory on Sunday, but Trump still holds a 244-43 lead in delegates. There is.
President Trump is likely to widen his lead in delegates Monday night when the Republican caucuses are held in North Dakota on the eve of Super Tuesday. More than 850 delegates are at stake in the Republican nomination contest in 15 states, but scant polling in these states suggests Trump is the favorite. There is.
Trump wins Saturday’s Republican presidential nomination by a landslide
Former Republican presidential candidate Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Steve Herber)
“Over the weekend, we won Missouri, we won Idaho, we won Michigan. Those are big numbers,” President Trump touted on his social network Truth on Sunday night.
The former president started the weekend by winning all 39 delegates scheduled to attend the Michigan Republican Party’s convention in Grand Rapids. Trump had previously won most of the 16 delegates he won in the Michigan primary held on February 27th.
Haley ends Trump’s first-time winning streak
Hours later, the former president won the Missouri caucuses, and Saturday night closed with a victory in the Idaho caucuses.
“We’ve been rocketing toward winning the Republican nomination,” Trump said Saturday night at a rally in Richmond, Virginia, one of the Super Tuesday states. “I can’t believe it today. “That’s the number that came out,” he said, pointing to his own claim. Ballot boxes win in Michigan, Missouri and Idaho.
Despite extremely long odds, Ms. Haley, who remains in the race for the Republican nomination at least until Super Tuesday, won her first victory in the 2024 race Sunday, beating Mr. Trump by about 30 points in the Washington, D.C., Republican primary. She won 19 delegates and made history as the first woman to win a Republican presidential primary or caucus.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at the District of Columbia Republican presidential primary rally at the Madison Hotel on Friday, March 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
“Republicans closest to the dysfunction in Washington know that Donald Trump has brought nothing but chaos and division for the past eight years. Start winning again and help our country,” Haley wrote on social media Sunday night. It’s time to move forward!” he posted on social media.
Haley has no public events scheduled for Super Tuesday night or any election night rallies, and has remained mum about her future plans.
“I’m going to continue as long as I’m competitive,” she reiterated in an interview with Fox News’ Bill Melgin on Saturday, but did not specifically define what competitive meant.
President Trump emphasized the importance of Super Tuesday in a video to his supporters.
“This is a big deal. It’s the most important reserve day of the year,” he said in a video posted on social media. “If all the conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters in these states come out on Super Tuesday, this primary is pretty much over.”
The former president, who is almost certainly aiming to pivot fully to a general election rematch with President Biden, who defeated Trump and won the White House four years ago, said the big victory on Super Tuesday would give him a strong sense of “we… “We can focus all of our energy and resources on defeating the crooked Joe Biden.” ”
“We want to send a signal that we are coming like a freight train,” he stressed. “Don’t be complacent, go vote.”
While Trump won a slew of victories at the ballot box over the weekend, the Club for Growth, a politically influential and fiscally conservative group funded by some of the biggest right-wing donors, We also reached an agreement.
Trump reconciles with influential conservatives to end bitter feud
The Growth Club and its president, David McIntosh, have had an up-and-down relationship with President Trump. They opposed him when he ran for the White House in 2016, but then welcomed him as an ally. In the 2022 cycle, Trump and Crabb teamed up in several high-profile Republican primaries, but clashed over tight Senate nomination contests in Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A bitter feud in the race for the Republican presidential nomination continued last year, with the club spending more than $7 million on anti-Trump groups that unsuccessfully tried to unseat the former president in early primary states.
Former President Trump shakes hands with Club for Growth President David McIntosh as Trump speaks at the club’s annual donor retreat at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida on March 1, 2024. (left). (Club for growth)
But McIntosh and Trump have reconciled in recent weeks, and Trump attended the club’s annual donor retreat Friday night, again held at The Breakers, an upscale beachfront resort in the Upper Crust seaside community of Palm Beach, Florida. I gave a lecture at
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“We got into an argument about a few people that you all know very well, and we had a falling out for about a year because of that,” Trump said at the club’s gathering, according to a person who was present.
However, President Trump emphasized, “Now we have love back, and we love each other deeply.”
“It’s time for Republicans to come together and put aside our differences,” McIntosh told Fox News Digital.
He added, “President Trump always says, “If President Trump and the Growth Club are together, we will definitely win.” And together, we will take back the White House and more this November. ”
Fox News’ Remy Numa contributed to this report
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