{"id":24429,"date":"2024-03-04T01:35:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24429"},"modified":"2024-03-04T01:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:35:50","slug":"haley-wins-dc-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24429","title":{"rendered":"Haley wins DC GOP primary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/nikki-haley\/\"><u>Nikki Haley\u2002<\/u><\/a>will win the Washington, D.C., Republican presidential primary, netting her first victory of the GOP nominating process, Decision Desk HQ projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Haley garnered 1,274 votes to former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>President Trump\u2019s\u2002<\/u><\/a>676 with all precincts reporting, according to DDHQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The win for the former United Nations ambassador breaks a streak of more than a half dozen victories for Trump to start out the GOP contests for the nomination. It\u2019s a much-needed triumph for Haley to show she can top Trump somewhere, but she still has a long road ahead of her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She has pledged to stay in the race at least through Super Tuesday this week, when more than a dozen states will vote. But she was not able to win any of the early-voting states in January and February, and no upcoming state obviously jumps out as a clear opportunity for her to win.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Still, the win in the winner-take-all D.C. primary will give her all of its 19 delegates. Voting in the District took place across three days from Friday to Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump still has an early lead in delegates attained&nbsp;that will likely grow significantly on Tuesday with the additional states voting. Candidates need at least 1,215 delegates to mathematically clinch the Republican nomination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Democratic primary in D.C. will take place in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4503364-haley-takes-the-victory-in-dc-gop-primary\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Haley\u2002will win the Washington, D.C., Republican presidential primary, netting her first victory of the GOP nominating process, Decision Desk HQ projects.&nbsp; Haley garnered 1,274 votes to former&nbsp;President Trump\u2019s\u2002676 with all precincts reporting, according to DDHQ. The win for the former United Nations ambassador breaks a streak of more than a half dozen victories for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1448,26213,2263,21064,1227],"class_list":["post-24429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dc","tag-hayey","tag-primary","tag-republican","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24431,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429\/revisions\/24431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}