Former President Donald Trump inched nearer to changing into the Republican nominee for president with one other main victory Monday, this time with a win within the North Dakota caucuses.
Trump won North Dakota’s caucuses, ending first in voting carried out at 12 caucus websites, based on an Related Press name of the race shortly after polls closed Sunday, incomes the previous president 29 delegates.
The win continues Trump’s dominant streak on this yr’s GOP main races, marking the ninth win in 10 tries for the previous president as he closes in on representing the Republican Get together for a 3rd time.
The one contest Trump has misplaced to this point was final weekend’s main in Washington D.C.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he departs after talking in the course of the Conservative Political Motion Convention, CPAC 2024, in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
The win comes as Trump’s marketing campaign has largely shifted its consideration to the overall election and an all-but-certain rematch of 2020’s matchup in opposition to President Biden, with the Trump marketing campaign telling Fox Information Digital earlier than this week’s slate of contests that the first race is “over.”
“Republican voters have delivered resounding wins for President Trump in every single primary contest and this race is over,” a spokesperson for the marketing campaign mentioned. “Our focus is now on Joe Biden and the general election.”
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, left, would be the solely remaining candidate difficult former President Donald Trump, proper.
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The previous president already had a commanding lead heading into this week, holding ten instances as many delegates as Haley earlier than incomes 29 in Monday’s North Dakota win.
The loss marked one other blow to Haley’s marketing campaign, although the previous South Carolina governor has vowed to remain within the race so long as there’s a path to victory.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at a rally in the course of the District of Columbias Republican presidential main on the Madison Resort in Washington, D.C., on Friday, March 1, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
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That path will doubtless have to start out showing on Tremendous Tuesday, the place voters in 15 extra states will head to the polls to find out who will get a share of 865 complete delegates. Whereas neither candidate can attain the wanted 1,215 delegates to safe the nomination this week, continued dominance by Trump would give Haley a close to unattainable uphill climb.
For its half, the Haley Marketing campaign has invested closely in a Tremendous Tuesday turnaround, saying a seven-figure advert purchase earlier this month meant to focus on lots of the states on the Tuesday slate.
