Trump wins Republican primaries in Missouri, Michigan and Idaho and moves closer to the presidential candidacy

Former US President Donald Trump has been declared the winner of the Republican caucuses held in the states of Idaho, Missouri and Michigan this Saturday. Trump thus defeated the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, and continued his winning streak on the way to being nominated as the Republican candidate to compete in the November presidential elections.

Thus the former President arrived even more strongly for ‘Super Tuesday’, which will be held next March 5, a key event in the presidential race, in which primary elections will be held in 16 states. So far, Trump has managed to win all the primaries and caucuses that the Republican Party has held in states like Iowa, South Carolina or Nevada. Each of these internal processes is assigned a proportional number of delegates, who will decide a nominee at the Republican Party National Convention in Milwaukee in July.

A total of 2,429 delegates are available and a candidate must win at least 1,215 delegates to secure the nomination. According to the newspaper’s count, at present Trump has accumulated 244 seats. Washington Post Updated, while Haley has 24. Despite this, the former United States Representative to the United Nations remains in the race and, for the time being, will remain in it next Tuesday, with a total of 874 delegates at stake.

The Idaho caucus distributed 32 delegates. With 95% of votes counted, Trump received 85% support, while Haley received 13.1% support. Missouri, instead of a raw vote count, offered a list of how many of the 51 state delegates each candidate won. This time 100% went to Trump. The other three delegates out of 54 belonging to the state will be distributed at the state party conference on May 4.

Meanwhile, the second part of the primary process was held in Michigan and distributed 39 delegates through a state party convention, followed by another 16 delegates at a caucus last Tuesday, attended by citizens. Because the date of the state’s primary elections violates Republican Party rules, Michigan splits its process into two parts – a caucus and a convention –, another peculiarity of the complex and lengthy primary calendar in the United States.

His pending cases with Justice do not prevent Trump’s candidacy

With these new victories, everything seems to indicate that nothing can stop the former president, not even all his pending cases in the justice system, including attempted delegitimization of elections, bribery and embezzlement. The crimes involve four criminal trials. of classified documents. or his participation in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

If everything continues as before and Republican supporters continue to support him, he will face current President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the elections on November 5.