By Jack Dura (Associated Press)
BISMARCK, ND (AP) – Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican President’s Cocus on Monday, in which he won Super on Tuesday.
The former President finished first in voting held at 12 Cocks Sites ahead of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. The result puts Trump back to the winning track, which was briefly interrupted on Sunday when Haley registered its first win of the campaign in the primary district of Columbia.
The expectation of the White House now attracts its attention to Super Tuesday, when the results will be put in the competitions from 16 states and in one region that is the amount for the President’s primary of the President to Dhona, the single biggest representative of any day. Trump and President Joe Biden, a Democrat, dominate their race and on track to win their nominations later this month.
Under the rules of North Dakota, the candidates are eligible to win the representatives when they end with at least 20% of the vote. However, a candidate who wins at least 60% of the votes receives all 29 delegates of the state.
Four candidates, including Trump and Nikki Haley, were on the ballot. Other candidates, who have paid less attention, were Florida’s businessman David Stukenburg and Texas businessman and pastor Ryan Binkle, who recently ended their campaign.
North Dakota village. Dag Bergam, who ended his unsuccessful President’s campaign in December, was speaking on behalf of Trump on Monday night. He supported Trump before Iowa Cocks.
“I think we are going to send a message that is going to be a kickoff for tomorrow, which President Donald Trump is going to close it, it is going to end the mark, and we are going to say We have a nominated person, and let’s go after it, and those who fall the biden, defeat, ”Bergam said Cocksagar in a virtual address.
Almont’s retired music teacher and librarian Karen Grronner said on Monday that he voted for Trump, calling him the best option. The 76-year-old cited Trump’s 2020 speech in the annual March for anti-life abortion at Washington, DC-first by the President sitting-and his boundary policies.
Bismarck’s long -time Republican State Sen Dick Dever said he voted for Haley, but he said that he was not likely to win. Representative of retired factory, 72, said, “I have heard that many people say that they really like Trump’s policies, but they do not like the way they operate themselves, and I think he has gone a little overboard. “
Cocks President Robert Horms said Cocks voters were encouraged to pay party members, but those who would not pay $ 50 for annual membership, to pledge to affiliate with the party Was said.
North Dakota is the only state without voter registration. Caucus followed the official state voter identity protocol, such as the driver’s license. Voting was done only on individual and printed ballots, which were counted by hand.
In 2016, it was a North Dakota representative who helped Trump to secure the number required for the nomination of the Republican President.
He won the three electoral college votes of North Dakota in 2016 and 2020, 63% and 65% of those votes respectively.
As the President, Trump visited Bismarck and Mandan to talk about tax cuts in 2017, and he twice in 2018 for Republican Kevin Craimmer in the then Congressman’s successful Senate dialect of Democratic Sen Heidi Heetkamp in the successful Senate dialect Campaign against.
The Democratic-NPL party of North Dakota is almost fully organizing a president’s primary by mail, with mail-in voting from February 20 to March 30, and limited in-traditions for the inhabitants of Indian reservation. Biden, rape. Dean Philips and six other ballots are on.
A third party will count ballot papers in Fargo on March 30, after which results will be available on the party’s website.
Sen Berney Sanders won Democratic Cocks in 2016 and 2020.