Former US President Donald Trump won the Republican presidential caucuses in Nevada on Thursday, getting closer to the party’s nomination.
Nikki Haley, a former United Nations ambassador, missed the caucuses, the only ones in Nevada that count towards the Republican Party’s nomination. Haley claimed she believed Nevada’s caucuses were an unfair process in Trump’s favour.
Trump’s victory in Nevada gives him all 26 state’s delegates out of the total of 1,215 required to officially clinch the party’s nomination.
Voters in line, some wearing Trump hats and shirts, claimed they had come to support the former president in a contest that would give him a third straight victory in the Republican presidential race.
Next, the Republican Party’s battle for political supremacy shifts from Nevada to South Carolina, where the next primary will be held on 24 February. Haley, who previously won twice as governor of South Carolina, hopes to benefit from her state’s advantage.
