Nikki Haley came out on top in the capital Washington DC, according to the news agencies Ap and Reuters. According to Reuters, Haley received 62.9 percent of the vote, while rival candidate and former president Donald Trump received 33.2 percent. Thus, Nikki Haley writes a piece of history. – She is the first woman to ever win a Republican primary, says spokesperson for Haley, Olivia Perez-Cubas. Several women have run as candidates in the Republican Party, but they have withdrawn much earlier. Elizabeth Dole ran as the Republican candidate in 1999, but withdrew before the primaries. Michele Bachmann ran in 2012, but withdrew after the Iowa caucuses. Carly Fiorina also ran as a Republican in 2016, but dropped out after she lost New Hampshire, according to ABC News. Although the victory in Washington DC gave Haley a partial victory, Trump is the big favorite to become the Republican candidate before the presidential election 5 .November. ELECTION CAMPAIGN: Nikki Haley was the US ambassador to the UN under President Donald Trump. Now she is fighting against him in the nomination battle. She thinks he is too old to be president again. Photo: AFP Super Tuesday Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, the day when 15 states and one territory hold nomination elections. Among those who will choose are large states such as California and Texas. Whoever will run against President Joe Biden in the election must have won 1,215 delegates in all nomination elections for the Republicans. On the Republican side, 854 delegates are elected on Super Tuesday, while the Democrats nominate 1,420 of their own. For the Republicans, the winner takes all the delegates in many states, while the delegates for the Democrats are distributed more proportionally. Superior Trump Trump has won by a landslide in the states that have already held their nomination elections, such as in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan, Missouri and Idaho. FOR TRUMP: Voters prefer Trump so far. Here they cheer for him during the election campaign in the state of Virginia. Photo: Reuters Among the Democrats is incumbent President Joe Biden, who by all accounts will win the nomination. The party will hold its primary election in Washington DC in June. Joe Biden is 81 years old, and lately he has mixed up names, including the presidents of Egypt and Mexico. Within the Democratic Party, it is being asked whether Biden has the energy to beat an increasingly confident Trump. Also read: Is Biden too weakened to beat Trump in November? Trump, for his part, mixed up his opponent Nikki Haley and the Democrat’s Nancy Pelosi, in January. Persisting Even though Nikki Haley is far behind Trump in the polls, she is not giving up. Now the 52-year-old is his only challenger. She believes that it is important that there is an alternative to Trump. And that there are younger candidates than Joe Biden and Donald Trump in this presidential election. Haley has advocated for more military aid to Ukraine. She has criticized Trump for being too lenient towards China, North Korea and Russia. Nikki Haley believes that Trump is creating chaos. Her campaign events have been regularly disrupted by Trump sympathizers. A few weeks ago, she asked to be guarded by the Secret Service. According to Reuters, it concerns several incidents related to her safety. Haley was the governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, the state in which she was also born. But she lost the nomination election to Trump in South Carolina on February 25. Read also: Trump with victory in South Carolina Follow the election on news: Presidential election in the USA 2024 Listen to Utenriksedaksjonen’s podcast:
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