Donald Trump on Saturday secured another major victory as he stormed through more nominating contests, winning the Republican caucuses in Michigan, Missouri and Idaho on Saturday, which brought him closer to becoming the Republican's White House candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in November.
In all three states, Trump achieved a crushing victory against former Ambassador UN Nikki Haley, his last rival for the Republican presidential nomination that will likely place him in a general election rematch with the President Joe Biden.
According to the state Republican Party, Trump defeated Haley in all 13 districts taking part in the nominating caucuses. He won with around 98 per cent support with 1575 votes as compared to Haley who just received 36.
The Michigan Republican Party's chair, Pete Hoekstra, called it an "overwhelming, dominating victory.”
Over 1,600 party insiders took part in the presidential caucus held in Grand Rapids, a city in western Michigan, where they had to chose from either Trump or former UN Ambassador Haley, to represent the party at the national nominating convention in July, Reuters reported.
With his recent victories in Iowa, New Hampshire, US Virgin Islands, Nevada, South Carolina, and now Idaho, Missouri, and Michigan under his belt, Trump is way ahead in the race, leaving Haley hanging behind.
Haley is running out of time to change the trajectory of the Republican nomination race. Meanwhile, Super Tuesday on March 5, the biggest day in the primaries with 15 states and one territory casting their votes, is just around the corner.
Michigan Republicans devised a hybrid nominating system for this election cycle that was spli between a caucus and a primary, reuters reported.
Trump easily won the primary on Tuesday by securing 12 of the 16 delegates. Thereafter, he took Michigan's remaining 39 delegates at stake on Saturday.
At one of the 13 caucus meetings, the participants were convinced that Trump would win and decided to save time and asked Haley's supporters to stand up instead. Only a 25-year-ol Carter Houtman stood up in her favour in a room of 185 voting deleagtes, Reuters reported.