After opening with Trump wins in 5 1/2 consecutive contests (the 1/2 being the primary ‘half’ of the Michigan delegate allocation), the 2024 Republican primary lumbered closer to its seemingly inevitable conclusion this weekend, with delegates being awarded on Saturday in Michigan (the state’s remaining 39 delegates), Idaho (32), and Missouri (54). The DC primary is a multi-day affair, with polls closing for good (and the District’s 19 delegates awarded) on Sunday. In total, 144 delegates were up for grabs over the weekend. (A candidate needs 1,215 delegates to secure the nomination at the convention in July.)
Saturday was a convincing Trump romp, with the candidate earning literally every delegate available. (125 in total.)
Sunday, however, was a different matter — Nikki Haley finally found a place so overrun with Democrats and Big-Government Republicans that she actually won a contest.
This is very important to the Haley campaign, as Nikki has been giving victory speeches after every vote — so it’s nice for her to actually have a victory to point to. The DC result saves Haley from an otherwise completely embarrassing weekend showing. Here are the updated delegate estimates:
Despite such a lopsided start to the primary — and no realistic hope for the future — it sure seems like last-woman-standing Nikki Haley is determined to stay in the race until the convention:
If getting blown out 125-19 over the weekend isn’t the voters “showing their support with their votes”, what is? (This is why I’m also still worried about the Haley gambit at the convention.)
Of course, her decision to continue her campaign isn’t surprising, considering she’s in the race to badmouth Trump from the right. Haley is just the latest in a long line of Republican Never-Trumpers who would rather continue being the Washington Generals of the Uniparty.
See, what she said in July doesn’t count because nobody at all could have foreseen Donald Trump being the nominee — except everybody in the country.
The “race” now plods toward a March 5th Super Tuesday — on which 16 states will vote — with the North Dakota caucuses sandwiched in beforehand. It promises to be the most boring Super Tuesday in history.
As has been the case since DeSantis and Ramaswamy dropped out of the race, there’s no drama about who GOP voters will choose to represent the party, the only drama is whether the Biden administration will throw Donald Trump off the ballot, in jail, or both. It’s not like Democrats are above throwing their opponents off ballots, this regularly happens to the Green party. (For democracy, of course.)
On the ballot access front, we should have news shortly:
My GUESS is the court sends a strong rebuke to the states and orders Trump on the ballot, but we’ve seen in the past that the rules go out the window when Donald Trump is involved. We may live in interesting times…..
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Haley doesn’t seem to realize that it’s a badge of honor for Trump to have been blown out in DC. Any Republican who wins in DC is automatically suspect.
Haley seems like all of the male architects of the NWO, WEF, and the WHO in a dress.