Former President Donald Trump continued his march toward the GOP nomination on Saturday, winning caucuses in Idaho and Missouri and sweeping the delegate haul at a party convention in Michigan.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Va.Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Va.COLUMBIA, Mo. —
The steep odds facing Haley were on display in Columbia, Missouri, where Republicans gathered at a church to caucus.Will the timing of the Supreme Court's Trump case mean no trial before the election?An organizer quieted the crowd and Christensen finished his speech. Haley went on to win just 37 of the 263 Republicans in attendance in Boone County.Michigan Republicans at their convention in Grand Rapids began allocating 39 of the state's 55 GOP presidential delegates.
Michigan Republicans were forced to split their delegate allocation into two parts after Democrats, who control the state government, moved Michigan into the early primary states, violating the national Republican Party's rules.Voters lined up outside a church in Columbia, home to the University of Missouri, before the doors opened for the caucuses. Once they got inside, they heard appeals from supporters of the candidates.
"I don't need to hear about Mr. Trump's dalliances with people of unsavory character, nor do my children," Christensen said to the room."And if we put that man in the office, that's what we're going to hear about all the time. And I'm through with it." The caucuses were organized after GOP Gov. Mike Parson signed a 2022 law that, among other things, canceled the planned March 12 presidential primary.
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