Trump also wins the primaries in Michigan by a landslide, with an almost 40 point lead
Former President Donald Trump won Michigan's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, solidifying his sizable lead over the only remaining challenger, Nikki Haley.
Trump was declared the winner at 9.01pm by Decision Desk HQ, one minute after the polls closed. With 28% of the total votes, Trump got 66.9% and Haley got 28.1%.
Trump has now won every election for the Republican presidential nomination by significant margins ahead of Super Tuesday on March 5, when 36% of Republican delegates will decide. As expected, President Joe Biden easily won the Democratic primaries.
Going into the primaries, Trump had a 56.9 percentage point lead (78.7%-21.8%) over Haley according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average, not far from her 59.9 point lead (76.5%). %-16.6%) nationally on the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador.
Before the polls closed, Haley campaign official Olivia Perez-Cubas set a low threshold for success, telling NBC News that if she got just 10% of the vote, it would signal there is a “ appetite for the alternative to Trump within the GOP.”
Haley's campaign also argued that Trump campaigned in Michigan for years and that Haley only "worked" for two days in the state, NBC News reported. Haley moved closest to Trump in the Republican nomination process with 11.1 percentage points in New Hampshire. He lost his home state of South Carolina by 20.3 points on Saturday. Despite losing the lead over Trump, Haley said she plans to stay in the race at least until Super Tuesday. The purpose of the move is not clear, other than to attract Democratic voters who think they can sabotage Trump by voting for her.
Only 16 of Michigan's 55 Republican delegates were in play Tuesday. Democrats, who control the state government, moved up Michigan's presidential primaries – usually held on the second Tuesday in March – to accommodate the Democratic National Committee's new calendar. Rules established by the Republican National Committee (RNC) prevent states from holding primaries and caucuses before March 1.
To avoid being stripped of delegates by the RNC, Michigan Republicans adopted a hybrid system in which 16 were awarded Tuesday and the remaining 39 will be awarded Saturday during a caucus at the state GOP convention. A mess wanted by the Democrats, but this vote indicates how the next one in March will end.
Michigan is considered a key state in Trump's bid for another term in the White House. The former president won the state in 2016 by 10,704 votes to Hillary Clinton, but lost by 154,188 votes to Biden in 2020.
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