Haley wins her first Republican primary in D.C., loses three states

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Sunday won her first presidential primary contest of the election cycle. Haley won the Washington, D.C., Republican presidential primary with 1,274 votes to former President Donald Trump’s 676, according to Associated Press results on WORLD’s 2024 Election Center.

What happened in Idaho, Missouri, and Michigan? The day before Haley’s D.C. victory, Trump won the Idaho Republican caucuses. He claimed roughly 85 percent of the vote, compared to Haley’s 13 percent. Trump also won the Missouri Republican caucuses that same day with 100 percent of the vote, according to WORLD’s Election Center. Trump won Michigan’s Republican Caucus on Saturday with 98 percent of the vote.

What did their campaigns have to say about this? Trump’s campaign on Sunday said the District of Columbia’s “insiders” and “lobbyists” had crowned Haley “Queen of the Swamp,” playing off years of his calls to “drain the swamp.” Nikki Haley applauded D.C.’s voters’ decision, saying, “Trump has brought nothing but chaos and division for the past 8 years.”

Dig deeper: Read my Q&A in The Stew with Ryan Binkley, who just dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.