Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) got a as overwhelming as it was predictable victory in the Nevada caucuses and he also won in those held in the US Virgin Islands, where he did not even have to campaign to win among Republican voters. Trump is very close to winning his party’s nomination for the November presidential elections after his resounding successes in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and the US Virgin Islands. He needs 1,215 delegates to officially declare himself as a candidate.

In what is known as the Silver State, with only 1% scrutinythe projections of media such as The New York Times or The Washington Post – equipped with technology to estimate electoral results – already gave him as the winner with 97.6% of the votes, compared to 2.4% for Ryan Binkle, a pastor. little-known Texas resident, “You are the reason I am going to make America great again. Through every witch hunt, raid, indictment and arrest, you never left my side. I will always love you for that. I am the only person who can stop Joe Biden“, they stated from the campaign of the former head of the US executive in a statement after certifying his victory in Nevada. For its part, the territory of the US Virgin Islands fell on his side, without even campaigning. , obtaining at least 75% of the support in contrast to the 25% garnered by the former US ambassador to the UN and former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley.

It remains to be seen if the Republican executive at the national level finally decides whether nine or four delegates will be distributed in the US Virgin Islands caucuses. Nevada, a caucus designed to suit Trump However, Haley could not compete in the Nevada caucuses because He did it this past Tuesday in the Republican primaries of the same state and his party established that the candidates had to choose between one or the other appointment.

A strategy tailored to Trump to consolidate his hegemony within the conservative formation. And the fact is that, for decades, Nevada held ‘caucuses’ but, as those events used to cause some chaos, state legislators approved a law in 2021 that abandoned that voting model and established that state authorities had to organize primaries when there was more than one. candidate. That law had a legal loophole because it did not specify how the Republican Party would assign to the winner the 26 delegates from Nevada that, after pressure from Trump’s hard core, ended up giving in to distribute them in the ‘caucuses’.

To Haley’s further misfortune, the former governor failed in Tuesday’s primary, where voters supported the ‘neither candidate’ option that further boosted Trump. “It seems that the only surprise here is the effort made to deny Nikki Haley even a moral victory when she and her team knew well in advance that only the Nevada caucus mattered,” David McCuan, a professor at the University, explained to EFE. State of Sonoma (California) and expert in American politics. A key state for the presidential elections It is increasingly difficult for Haley to hold on in the race for the Republican nomination until, at least, a last battle in her home state, South Carolina, on February 24.

In Nevada, about 2.3 million voters registered to vote. Of this total, 31% are Democrats, 28% are Republicans and 34% are independents, according to official data. This is one of the so-called hinge states in which the candidates of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have similar support.

In the last elections, Nevada fell to the Democratic side by an advantage of just 3% of the votes, so, aware of its importance, the Democratic National Committee reacted after the Republican caucuses: “Their consecutive defeats (of Trump ) in 2016 and 2020 made him the first Republican in decades to lose the state twice (…) He will not be able to escape becoming a three-time loser,” they said in a statement. EFE gac/rrt (photo)(video)