Donald Trump wins Republican caucuses in US Virgin Islands

Former American President donald trump (2017-2021) won this Thursday in the Republican ‘caucuses’ of Virgin Islands in USA and remains unstoppable toward his party’s nomination for the November election, according to The New York Times and NBC News.

According to this information, Trump received 73% of the vote and the former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley he gained 26%. It remains to be seen whether the republican executive at the national level will finally decide whether in these ‘Political convention‘Nine or four delegates are distributed.

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“The news just came that we won the caucuses by a landslide. Virgin Islands, ALL Delegates (…) I just called to thank the participants. They are celebrating and having so much fun, they deserve it! It was a great day for your favorite president, Republican party and democracy“, expressed the former president in Truth Social.

Neither Trump nor Haley campaigned in the Virgin Islands, focusing on the state of Snow fallwhere the former governor of South Carolina He ran in the primaries and ended up failing because voters chose not to support any of the candidates in the race.

For decades, Nevada has held caucuses. However, as these appointments tend to cause some chaos, state legislators approved a law in 2021 that abandoned this voting model, also used in Iowaand established that state authorities should organize primaries when there is more than one candidate.

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However, this 2021 law had a legal loophole: although it established that there should be primaries, it did not specify how the Republican Party would attribute the winner to Nevada’s 26 delegates, who are those who during party conventions officially proclaim the candidate, both Democrat and as republican, to the presidential elections.

Taking advantage of this legal loophole, Trump pressured the Nevada Republican Party to ignore state law and continue with its tradition of distributing delegates at conventions, in which it will also participate this Thursday.

Trump’s victory in the US Virgin Islands caucuses adds to that in the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire and the supposed victory in Nevada.

Source: Elcomercio

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