There were two Republican caucuses on Thursday with very different geographic backgrounds.
In Nevada, where Donald Trump was the only participating candidate, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Trump will leave the Silver State with 99% support and 26 new delegates.
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, the race was more competitive but Trump won handily beating Nikki Haley by 50 points.
Nevada Caucus Results
With no real competition, Trump was the near-unanimous choice:
Former President Donald Trump won the Nevada Republican caucus with just over 99% of the vote in support, as reported by the Associated Press:
Former President Donald Trump won Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses Thursday after he was the only major candidate to compete, winning his third straight state as he tries to secure his party’s nomination.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, his last major rival still in the race, skipped the caucuses even though they are the only contest in Nevada that counts toward the GOP nomination. Haley cited what she considered an unfair process favoring Trump and instead ran in Nevada’s symbolic state-run presidential primary on Tuesday, when she finished behind the “none of these candidates” option.
Trump will win most, if not all, of the state’s 26 delegates. He needs to accrue 1,215 delegates to formally clinch the party’s nomination and could reach that number in March.
While the contest was no contest, what mattered in the end was the delegates. Nikki Haley lost the Nevada primary on Tuesday to “none of these candidates” and lost the chance to win a single Nevada delegate in the process.
Trump will leave Nevada with 26 more delegates toward the nomination and head into South Carolina later this month.
U.S. Virgin Islands Caucus Results
Haley was on the ballot in the Virgin Islands but the race wasn’t even close:
Both candidates were competing in the territory but Trump easily went away the victor with another four delegates.
The primary calendar will be quiet for a few days leading up to the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday, February 24.
