Nikki Haley won the Republican presidential primary in Washington DC this Sunday, his first victory in a race for his party's nomination that has been marked by the overwhelming dominance of Donald Trump.
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Haley's symbolic victory in the nation's capital comes two days before a decisive day in the long US nomination process: Super Tuesday, when 15 states and one territory will vote for their favorite nominee.
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Washington is a solidly Democratic city with a very small number of registered Republicans. Chain cnn and other outlets reported that Haley won on Sunday with an estimate of only 22,000.
Former US President Donald Trump.
Haley won 63% of the vote in a primary that was held only in a downtown hotelaccording to the Politico portal, which cited party officials in Washington.
In the 2020 election against Trump, then-candidate Joe Biden won 92% of the vote in Washington.
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US Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
In fact, the city has never recorded a majority of votes for a Republican presidential candidate.
“It is not surprising that Republicans closest to Washington's dysfunction reject Donald Trump and all his chaos,” Haley's campaign said in a statement.
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It is not surprising that the Republicans closest to Washington's dysfunction reject Donald Trump and all his chaos,
The Trump campaign, for its part, published thatThe results in Washington DC “reaffirm the goal of President Trump's campaign: drain the swamp and put America first”.
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It is expected that after Super Tuesday Trump will be on the verge of securing the presidential nomination for the Republican Party, since he has already swept all the early state primaries
Super Tuesday is considered the last real opportunity for Haley to get in the way of the former president who is on his way to becoming the party's standard bearer once again, again against Biden.
AFP
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