former American president donald trump (2017-2021) won the Republican caucuses in the US Virgin Islands this Thursday His party’s candidacy for the November election remains unstoppable, according to The New York Times and NBC News.
According to this information; Trump received 73 percent of the votes and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley received 26%. It remains to be seen whether the Republican executive branch will ultimately decide whether nine or four delegates will be allocated at these ‘caucuses’ at the national level.
“News came out that we won the Virgin Islands caucuses by an overwhelming majority, ALL Delegates (…) I just called to thank the participants. They are celebrating and having a great time, “They deserve it! It’s been a great day for their favorite President, the Republican Party, and democracy,” the former president said on Truth Social.
Neither Trump nor Haley campaigned in the Virgin Islands, based in the Nevada state; where the former South Carolina governor also ran in the primary and was unsuccessful as voters chose not to support either candidate.
Meetings have been held in Nevada for decades. But since those appointments tend to cause some chaos, state lawmakers passed a law in 2021 that abandons the voting model also used in Iowa and establishes that state officials must hold primaries when there is more than one candidate. However, the 2021 law had a loophole: Although it established that a primary election was required, it did not specify how the Republican Party would appoint the winner to the 26 delegates from Nevada who officially declare it during the caucuses. Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for the Presidential election. Taking advantage of this loophole, Trump put pressure on the Nevada Republican Party. ignored state laws and continued the tradition of scattering delegates at ‘caucuses’This will also be presented this Thursday.
Trump’s victory in the U.S. Virgin Islands caucuses adds to his presumed victory in the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and Nevada.