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Las Vegas – Although Donald Trump is not on the ballot, he managed to emerge victorious in Nevada’s Republican presidential primary.
On Thursday, Trump is expected to win outright in the Nevada Republican caucuses.
Trump’s absence from the primary vote was not enough to provide a path to victory for Nikki Haley, Trump’s last major rival for the Republican nomination.
The former two-term South Carolina governor and later U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration won by a wide margin in the uncontested primary for delegates to the Republican convention, choosing “none of these candidates.” Defeated.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump makes a motion before speaking at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Saturday, January 27, 2024. (AP Photo/John Locher) (AP Photo/John Roche)
Voters voting in the primary could not write Trump’s name, but they could “not vote for any of these candidates.” And a Trump supporter interviewed by Fox News outside the polling place said that’s how he voted.
Trump, a strong front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination to run for the White House for a third consecutive year, was not included on the primary ballot but will appear in Thursday’s caucuses, where 26 delegates will be contested. will have his name on it.
Confusion over the holding of two competing election campaigns dates back to 2021. That’s when Democrats, who at the time controlled both the Nevada governor’s office and the state legislature, passed a bill that would change presidential nomination contests from longstanding caucuses to state-sponsored primaries.
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A legal proposal to block the primary was defeated last year, although the Nevada Republican Party opposed it. After many twists and turns, the judge in the case allowed the state Republican Party to hold its own caucus. No delegates will be contested in the Republican primary, but all 26 will be contested in the Republican caucus.
The state Republican Party has ruled that candidates whose names appear on the state’s primary ballot cannot participate in the caucuses.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley waves to the crowd during a campaign event at New Realm Brewing Company on Sunday, February 4, 2024 in Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
Haley and some other already-resigned Republican presidential candidates considered the Nevada Republican Party too loyal to President Trump and decided to skip the caucuses that were expected to tilt in favor of the former president.
Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald and both state Republican National Committee members have endorsed Trump.
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“We decided early on that we would not pay $55,000 to a Trump company that participated in a process that was rigged on Trump’s behalf,” Haley campaign manager Betsy Ankney claimed Monday.
“Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada” sign on February 6, 2024. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Republican presidential candidates had to choose between caucus and primary voting, but registered Republicans in Nevada can vote in both elections.
The Trump campaign is working to spread the message to its supporters in Nevada that if they want to vote for the former president, they need to attend the caucuses.
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“Primaries don’t mean anything. They’re caucus votes,” President Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas late last month. “That means your state has both primaries and caucuses. Don’t worry about the primaries, just do the caucuses.”
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who supports President Trump, told the Nevada Independent last month that he would not be voting for “any of these candidates” in the primary and that he would not vote for members of Trump’s party in Thursday’s state Republican election. He said he was planning to hold a rally.
Voting signs outside a Las Vegas polling place during Nevada’s presidential primary election on February 6, 2024. (Fox News – Monica Oros)
Haley ignored the Nevada primary even though her name was on the ballot.
Haley did not campaign in Nevada ahead of the primary and has not visited the state since speaking at the Republican Jewish Federation’s annual leadership conference in late October.
“When it comes to Nevada, we’re not spending a penny or an ounce of energy on Nevada,” Ankney stressed. “So Nevada is not and has never been our focus.”
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As vote counting continued Tuesday night, the former president took aim at Haley on the Truth social network.
“Bad night for Nikki Haley, who lost in Nevada to ‘None of These Candidates’ by almost 30 points.” Look, she will soon be victorious! ” he insisted.
Trump is scheduled to return to Las Vegas on Thursday for the caucuses.
This week’s election is just the appetizer for Nevada, which will be a key battleground state in the general election and will be the site of much campaigning this summer and fall.
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