Trump Wins Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho GOP Caucuses
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Former President Donald Trump won the Republican primary caucuses in Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho on Saturday.
The Details: Trump swept all 125 delegates up for grabs in the three states, raising his nationwide delegate total to 247. His closest competitor, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, remains at 24. No Democratic election contests were held on Saturday.
For Context: The next contest is the GOP caucus in Washington D.C. on March 3. Tuesday is Super Tuesday, the largest voting day of the primary elections, when 16 states and American Samoa will vote in primaries.
How The Media Covered It: Reuters (Center bias) added context about a current rift in the Michigan GOP. National Review (Lean Right bias) included a post from Trump’s Truth Social page and referenced the recent New York Times (Lean Left bias) poll which shows him 4 points ahead of Biden.
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Trump Sweeps Missouri, Idaho, Michigan Republican Caucuses on Saturday
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.
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Donald Trump on Saturday easily won the Republican caucuses in Michigan, where the party has been riven by infighting that some Republicans fear could hurt his campaign in the key battleground state as he gears up for the general election in November.
The former U.S. president also won the Missouri and Idaho Republican caucuses on Saturday, according to Edison Research.
In all three states Trump trounced Nikki Haley, his last remaining rival for the Republican presidential nomination, moving him closer to becoming his party's White House standard-bearer and a likely general election rematch with President Joe...
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Trump wins Missouri, Michigan and Idaho caucuses, CBS News projects
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday won the Missouri, Michigan and Idaho Republican caucuses, CBS News projects, all three of which will award delegates for the GOP presidential nomination.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, meanwhile, is still seeking her first win.
Trump won all 54 Republican delegates available in Missouri, as well as all 39 delegates which were at stake Saturday in Michigan's district caucuses. That was in addition to the 12 at-large delegates Trump won in Michigan's Republican primary Tuesday.
CBS News projects that Trump also swept all 32 delegates in Idaho.
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