Former president Donald Trump won the Missouri, Idaho, and Michigan Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday over rival Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina.
Trump won the Missouri caucus at 12:40 p.m. eastern time, according to the Associated Press’s call, soon after results began to come in. He was deemed victorious in Idaho at 6:58 p.m. eastern with about two-thirds of the results officially counted. The former president won all the delegates in Missouri and 85 percent of the Idaho caucus vote at the time of writing.
Trump also won the Michigan Republican caucus Saturday with 98 percent of the vote, days after he easily won the Michigan primary over Haley.
“THANK YOU, MISSOURI! Together, WE are going to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump said on Truth Social Saturday afternoon.
The victory adds further momentum to Trump’s campaign and extends his winning streak against Haley and the rest of the GOP field. Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee after winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and other early states. He resoundingly defeated Haley in her home state of South Carolina last month in a primary that was not expected to be competitive.
The former president is expected to win big on Super Tuesday, March 5, when over a dozen states hold Republican primary elections. Washington, D.C.’s, GOP primary will conclude on Sunday evening, and North Dakota’s will take place on Monday as a preview to Super Tuesday.
Haley held an event Friday at the Madison Hotel in D.C, a four-star hotel where the three-day-long D.C. primary is taking place. She is expected to be competitive against Trump in D.C. and Virginia, one of the Super Tuesday primary states. A recent poll conducted by Roanoke College found Trump leading Haley by eight percentage points in Virginia’s open primary.
Haley picked up endorsements from two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, before their respective states conduct primaries on Tuesday. She emphatically ruled out running on the centrist No Labels ticket after her bid for the Republican nomination concludes.
A new general-election poll released Saturday by the New York Times and Siena College shows Trump leading Biden by five percentage points among registered voters amid widespread dissatisfaction with how Biden is running the country. Republican primary voters in the poll expressed much stronger enthusiasm for Trump than Democratic primary voters did for Biden. Trump leads Biden by an average of 2.3 percentage points, according to the latest RealClearPolitics general-election polling average.
Democratic operatives are already sounding the alarm about Biden’s polling numbers and emphasizing the importance of his upcoming State of the Union address, Politico reported. Biden’s campaign dismissed the significance of the NYT poll and suggested the polls are undercounting him.