Former President Donald Trump won two of three events recognizing delegates Saturday in the Missouri and Michigan Republican caucuses, a project of CBS News. republican party Presidential candidate nomination.
Idaho's caucuses were scheduled to be held later Saturday.Former United Nations Meanwhile, Ambassador Nikki Haleyis still aiming for his first victory.
In Michigan's district caucuses on Saturday, Trump won all 54 available Republican delegates in Missouri and all 39 contested delegates. This is in addition to the 12 at-large delegates Trump received in Michigan's Republican primary on Tuesday.
According to the results from Michigan and Missouri, Trump now has 215 delegates nationwide, compared to 24 for Haley.
There are no Democratic races on Saturday.
weekend caucus meeting
The next contest is the Republican caucus in the District of Columbia on Sunday. Super Tuesday is in 2 days Primaries will be held in 16 states and American Samoa on this day, the biggest voting day of the year outside of the November election. Trump is on track to secure the nomination in the coming days.
The Michigan Republican Party on Saturday awarded Trump 51 of the state's 55 Republican presidential delegates at its convention in Grand Rapids. However, a significant portion of the party's grassroots forces were absent from the rally as the effects of months of dispute over the party's leadership linger.
Trump easily won the Michigan primary. Voter turnout this Tuesday was 68%, with Haley at 27%.
Michigan's Republican Party was forced to split its delegate allocation in two after Democrats, who control the state government, moved Michigan into an early primary state in violation of national Republican Party rules.
The Missouri Republican Party held its presidential caucus on Saturday, offering state voters the only chance to consider who should represent the party on November's presidential ballot. Voters lined up outside the church in Columbia, home to the University of Missouri, even before it opened.
“I don't know what my role will be here other than being hounded by Trump,” Colombian resident Carmen Cristal said, adding, “I'm just looking forward to the experience.”
brand new system
This year will be the first test of the new system in Missouri, which is run almost entirely by Republican volunteers.
The caucus was held after Missouri Republican Governor Mike Parson signed a 2022 law that, among other things, canceled the scheduled March 12 presidential primary.
Lawmakers have not been able to restart primaries, despite calls from the state's Republican and Democratic leaders to do so. The Democratic Party will hold a party-sponsored primary election on March 23rd.
Trump won twice under Missouri's old presidential primary system.
Last year, the Idaho Legislature passed a cost-cutting bill aimed at moving all primaries in the state to the same date in May, but the bill also inadvertently eliminates the presidential primary altogether. is what happened. The Republican-led Congress considered holding a special session to restart presidential primaries, but they were unable to agree on a proposal by the deadline, leaving the presidential caucuses the only option for both parties. The Republican presidential caucus will convene Saturday, but the Democratic caucus will not convene until May 23.
The last Republican caucus in Idaho was in 2012, when about 40,000 of the state's roughly 200,000 registered Republican voters showed up to choose their preferred candidate.
This year, all Republican voters who wish to participate must attend in person. They vote after listening to short speeches by candidates or their representatives.
If one candidate receives more than 50% of the statewide vote, that candidate will win all of Idaho's delegates. If no candidate receives more than her 50% of the votes, each candidate who receives at least her 15% of the total votes receives a proportionate number of delegates.
The Idaho Republican Party plans to announce results once all votes are counted across the state.
Trump came in a distant second to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 Idaho primary.
