2024-03-04 04:58:41
Former permanent representative to the UN Nikki Haley wins the Republican primary elections in the United States for the first time in the current election cycle, Day.Az reports with reference to TASS.
Haley’s victory in the DC metropolitan area is predicted based on the processing of approximately 99% of the ballots by leading American media, including the Associated Press, The Washington Post and The New York Times, ABC and CNN television channels. According to their calculations, Haley receives about 63% of the primary vote in the district, and her opponent, former US President Donald Trump, gets about 33%.
Federal district primaries select delegates who will support a candidate for the presidential nomination at the upcoming Republican National Convention. The District of Columbia primary will award 19 delegates. Hayley, according to media estimates, will receive them all. To be nominated as the Republican presidential candidate in the first round of voting at the party’s national convention July 15-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a candidate must receive 1,215 delegate votes.
This victory in the primaries was Haley’s first in the current election campaign. She has already secured the support of a total of 43 delegates. Trump has now received 244 delegate votes. According to some media estimates, he will gain the number of votes required for the Republican presidential nomination by March 12.
The next presidential elections will be held in the United States on November 5. On April 25, 2023, current American leader Joe Biden, a Democrat, announced that he would seek re-election. Trump announced his entry into the election race in November 2022.