First win for Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, her first win of the 2024 campaign.

His victory Sunday temporarily ends Donald Trump's victory in the race for the Republican nomination, although the former president could pick up several hundred additional delegates in this week's “Super Tuesday” elections.

Despite his first failures, M^me Haley declared that he would stay in the race at least until these races were over. He, however, declined to name the front-runners who he expects to make a concrete gain.

Following last week's defeat in his home state of South Carolina, M^me Despite her dominance of the campaign so far, Haley was adamant voters in the next states deserved another option over Trump.

The Associated Press reported Nikki Haley's victory Sunday evening after Washington Republican Party officials released the results. A candidate wins 19 delegates at stake during this primary.

Washington is one of the most Democratic jurisdictions in the country, with only 23,000 registered Republicans in the city. Democrat Joe Biden won the district in the 2020 general election with 92% of the vote.

Trump released a statement after Haley's victory, sarcastically congratulating her on being named “Queen of the Swamp by DC lobbyists and insiders who want to protect the failed state.”

Nikki Haley held a rally in the nation's capital on Friday before returning to North Carolina and the primary state on Super Tuesday. He joked to more than 100 supporters in a hotel ballroom: “Who says there aren't Republicans in Washington, come on.”

“We're trying to make sure we shake every hand we can and talk to every person,” Ms.^me Haley.

As he gave his usual campaign speech, criticizing Trump for increasing the federal deficit, one rally attendee yelled, “He can't win a general election.” It is heresy. » Nikki Haley agrees with Joe Biden, saying he can stop him from running for a second term, but Trump can't.

While campaigning as a staunch conservative, M^me Haley tends to do well among more moderate and independent voters.

Four-in-ten of Nikki Haley's supporters in the South Carolina Republican primary called themselves moderate, compared to 15% for Trump, according to an AP VoteCast poll of more than 2,400 voters who participated in the Republican primary in South Carolina. Chicago for the Associated Press. On the other hand, eight in ten Trump supporters identified as conservative, compared to half of M supporters.^me Haley.

Trump ran unopposed in Washington during his 2020 re-election campaign, but four years ago Florida Sen. He finished third behind Marco Rubio and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Rubio's win was one of three failed 2016 bids. Other centrist Republicans, including Mitt Romney and John McCain, won city primaries in 2012 and 2008 en route to the Republican nomination.

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