Former President Trump will officially win enough delegates to certify the Republican presidential nomination next week, his campaign told the Post.
Trump needs to win at least 1,215 delegates in each state’s primaries and caucuses to mathematically secure the nomination.
Trump, who had 1,075 delegates as of Saturday, will face nomination battles Tuesday in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington (161 delegates total) after all his challengers have withdrawn. It is expected that this will be reached without difficulty.
“The primaries are over and President Trump will confirm the nomination sooner than he did in 2020,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said on March 17, when Trump was nominated as the Republican presidential nominee.
“The American people have spoken and this is nothing short of historic. We have now defeated crooked Joe Biden and won a landslide victory over the greatest president in our country’s history, President Donald J. Trump. We’re looking to bring that to the table.”
Former President Trump led in the early nominating states, winning every Super Tuesday state this week except Vermont, which he lost to former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Haley also won the District of Columbia primary.
Haley withdrew from the presidential race earlier this week without endorsing Trump.
If Trump passes the delegate threshold, he will become the presumptive Republican nominee until he is formally nominated at the Republican convention in Milwaukee in July.
