- The former president achieves another victory in the last caucus before Super Tuesday
- Trump seeks to sweep the 15 states heading to the polls
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Donald Trump has once again decisively defeated Nikki Haley by winning the North Dakota Republican caucus in a preview of the dominant night that Super Tuesday could have.
The former president garnered a staggering 84.9 percent of the vote, while his last rival garnered just 14.1 with 20 percent of the votes counted as of 9:30 p.m. ET.
Trump’s latest primary victory caps the day the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he could remain on the ballot in Colorado, effectively ending candidate states that were trying to block him from running.
The results in North Dakota at the end of the night could be a dire sign for Haley, as thousands of voters in 15 states and one U.S. territory head to the polls Tuesday morning on the biggest day of the primaries.
Trump has won every early election except Sunday’s primary in Washington, D.C., where Haley beat the former president among the small population of registered Republicans living in the nation’s capital.
Donald Trump has once again decisively defeated Nikki Haley by winning the North Dakota Republican primary in a preview of the dominant night that Super Tuesday could have.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley did not visit North Dakota for a campaign stop, as the caucuses have tended to favor Trump this campaign cycle. She easily won Iowa and then won Nevada, although Haley did not appear on that ballot.
The Republican front-runner has a chance of winning every state on Tuesday, leaving Nikki Haley’s path to the White House even narrower than before.
He is already focused on November and his likely general election rematch with President Joe Biden.
Former South Carolina Gov. Haley’s future in the race hangs in the balance, and a loss in most states, including California, will make her comeback nearly impossible.
Neither Trump nor Haley actively campaigned in North Dakota, although Trump found a reliable replacement in North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.
Burgum launched his own bid for the White House in June, but fell out of the race in early December, before primary votes were cast.
North Dakota’s governor endorsed Trump in mid-January, just before the Iowa caucuses, which the former president won handily against Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Burgum has continued to appear alongside Trump on the campaign trail.
He was with the former president last month in Las Vegas after Trump won the Nevada caucuses and voters chose “none of these candidates” on the Nevada primary ballot, a symbolic vote for Trump over Haley.
The caucuses have produced good results for Trump this election cycle, as the MAGA faithful are so enthusiastic about their candidate that they will take the time to attend the caucuses.
Thousands of voters in 15 states will go to the polls on what has been known since the 1970s as ‘Super Tuesday.’
In North Dakota, voters gathered at 12 locations across the state.
The state Republican Party pressured voters to pay $50 annually in dues to the party, but voters could also sign a party affiliation pledge to participate.
North Dakota is the only state without voter registration.
Instead, voters will need to present identification to participate.
29 delegates were at stake.
A candidate needed to get at least 20 percent support to win some delegates and if a candidate got more than 60 percent, winner takes all.
By comparison, Washington, DC has 19 delegates, while California, the state with the most delegates in the country, has 169.