North Dakota voted
Trump scores next victory in primaries
March 5, 2024, 7:17 a.m
With its 29 delegates, North Dakota is not tipping the scales. Nevertheless, the rural state confirms a trend in the Republican primaries for the presidential nomination: Donald Trump is winning one state after another.
As expected, former US President Donald Trump won the Republican party’s internal vote on the presidential candidacy in the state of North Dakota. According to forecasts from Fox News and NBC, the 77-year-old clearly won in the northern US state. After almost 40 percent of the votes were counted, Trump got almost 85 percent, his competitor Nikki Haley, who is considered to be a bit more moderate, got just under 15 percent. Additional votes went to other candidates.
The rural state with the capital Bismarck is conservative and has a population of around 775,000. North Dakota has no prominent significance in the race for the candidacy. There are only 29 of the 2,429 delegates up for grabs. If Trump still has more than 60 percent of the votes behind him at the end of the count, all of the state’s delegate votes should go to him. Voting was not carried out in the traditional way at polling stations, but rather at small party meetings – so-called caucus meetings.
Trump has so far won all votes in his party’s primaries for the presidential election in the fall except for those in the liberal capital district of Washington. This Tuesday marks the next big milestone in the election year: “Super Tuesday” with votes in more than a dozen states. Trump is ahead in the polls.
The 52-year-old Haley is given no chance of achieving any notable successes – or even of winning her party’s candidacy. Anyone who wants to become a presidential candidate in the USA must first prevail in internal party primaries. The candidates are then officially chosen at party conferences in the summer. The Republican nomination convention will take place in mid-July. Democrats in North Dakota don’t vote until the end of March. Incumbent Joe Biden, who wants to run for the Democrats, has no relevant competition in his party.