Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Nevada primary on Tuesday. Falling behind on ballot papers that say “None of these candidates” by Donald Trump supporters, according to Edison Research. Haley, front-runner Trump’s last remaining competitor for the Republican presidential nomination, was the only major Republican candidate to take part in the party’s primary in Nevada on Tuesday. Trump was not on the ballot.
Trump did not take part in Tuesday’s primary, which had no bearing on the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Haley will not participate in Thursday’s caucus vote. Republican voters were unable to mark “none of these candidates” on their ballots in Tuesday’s primary election Haley angered Trump by refusing to leave the race for the Republican nomination.
With more than two-thirds of the Republican votes counted, Haley won 32% of the vote, and “none of these candidates” topped 61% to emerge victorious, according to Edison Research.
Thursday’s rival GOP caucus is led by a pro-Trump state party, and with only Trump on that list, he is almost certain to win and all 26 of the state’s delegates at the Republican National Convention in July, when the party formally nominates its candidate. Voters can participate in both the Republican primary on Tuesday and the Republican caucus on Thursday.
Joe Lombardo, Republican governor of Nevada and Trump supporter, had said he would not vote “for any of these candidates” on Tuesday and that he would vote for Trump on Thursday. The competing Republican ballots are the result of a conflict between the state Republican Party, led by Trump allies, and a 2021 state law requiring primaries.
The presidential nomination caucuses are conducted by the state political parties. not from the state, and the Trump-supporting Nevada Republican Party decided to hold a caucus on February 8th. During a visit to Nevada last week, Trump urged voters to ignore Tuesday’s primary and be the only one to vote on Thursday.
Haley has vowed to stay in the race for the Republican nomination and a possible final spot in his home state of South Carolina on Feb. 24, but he has no clear path to the nomination. Opinion polls show he is well behind Trump in South Carolina.
Biden with a comfortable victory in Nevada
For his part, US President Joe Biden easily won the Democratic presidential primary in Nevada after dominating his party’s first nomination contest in South Carolina on Saturday. Biden campaigned in Nevada on Sunday and Monday. After his victory, he immediately took aim at Trump, saying in a statement: “Donald Trump is trying to divide us, not unite us; he tries to drag us into the past, not lead us into the future.”
With more than 70% of votes counted, Biden had 90% support. The president faces little resistance within his own party to seek re-election in a likely general election rematch with Trump in November. The former president will win all of Nevada’s delegates in a separate vote on Thursday. After back-to-back wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, he is getting closer and closer to the nomination.
Biden appeared on the ballot alongside self-help author Marianne Williamson and other lesser-known Democratic rivals. U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota missed the filing deadline and will not appear on the ballot.
Although Tuesday’s results in Nevada had little impact on the nomination election, The state will be a highly competitive battleground because its population can lean towards either party. and play an important role in the presidential election in November.
In 2020, Biden beat Trump in Nevada by 2.4 percentage points. Opinion polls show a likely rematch between Biden and Trump in the state will be close. Around the 30% of Nevada’s population identifies as Latino or Hispanic in the U.S. Census. and Republicans are making some gains among these voters across the country.
Nevada also has many potential undecided voters: According to the state’s latest numbers, 768,000 are registered as “nonpartisan,” more than those registered as Democrats or Republicans.
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