Trump wins Republican primary in Florida, according to media projections

Former American President donald trump (2017-2021) won the primaries of Republican party in the state of Floridathat have already been decided in your favor in this formation.

Trump, 77 years old, won 125 delegates from the so-called ‘sunshine state’, which serves above all to highlight the broad support he receives among Republican voters, given that he had already secured the delegates he needed (1,215). nomination for the November 5 elections.

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So far, Trump has 1,265 delegates, thus guaranteeing his nomination in the Republican race.

With 88.6% of the votes counted, Trump reached 80.5%, followed by the former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley (14.3%) and, in third place, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis (3.9%), the last two have already withdrawn from the Republican race, according to results from the Palm Beach Post newspaper in Florida.

“Thank you Florida-MAGA (acronym for your ‘Make America Great Again’ campaign). Trump wins Florida! (Trump wins Florida!)“, said the former president on his social network, Verdade Social, after receiving 851,726 votes (80.6%) in the primaries of Floridaaccording to NBC.

Florida Democrats, meanwhile, did not hold a presidential primary this year after the state party put forward only the president’s name, Joe Bidenfor today’s vote.

Like Florida, where this vote was essentially a mere formality, four other states held primaries this Tuesday: Arizona, Illinois, Kansas It is Ohio.

Although Trump is mathematically his party’s nominee tonight, he will still have to wait to be officially proclaimed as such at the Republican convention being held July 15-18 in Milwaukee (Wisconsin).

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Florida, Trump’s official state of residence, opened the polls this morning for the presidential primaries. Republican party meaningless in the presidential elections and amid the fierce polarization of national campaigns between the Republican and the current president, Democrat Joe Biden.

In addition to Trump, the vote in Florida included six other candidates who had already been removed from the race, but appeared in this race because, by law, only those who officially did so by December 12th can be eliminated.

DeSantis, who was once the political godson of donald trumpremained somewhat on the sidelines of the former president’s campaign, although he offered his support when he retired last January.

The governor, however, intensified his use of social media these days to continue denouncing the illegal migration and criticize President Biden, as Trump does at all his rallies.

With Democrats on the sidelines in this primary process, it is perhaps not surprising that Republicans accumulate early or mail-in votes, with 91% of the total. This trend is repeated even in locations where local issues will also be voted on.

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According to the Florida Department of State, as of December 31 of last year, Republicans had 5.1 million registered voters, while for Democrats the number was smaller, 4.3 million registered voters.

According to experts, this is a reflection that Florida, where Trump established his residence, is no longer a state.hinge”Or ambivalent, to confirm itself as a Republican majority.

Of the state’s 67 municipalities, less than a dozen will also hold local elections, as will happen in the municipality of Orangein the center of the state, as well as in the cities of Delray Beach It is Surfsidewhere mayors and commissioners (councillors) will be elected.

Source: Elcomercio

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