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| Reuters |
Donald Trump won the Republican presidential caucuses in North Dakota, thereby extending his winning streak ahead of Super Tuesday.
The former president finished first in the voting held at 12 assembly sites, ahead of the former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley.
The results resume Trump's winning streak, which was briefly interrupted on Sunday when Haley achieved her first campaign victory in the primaries of the District of Columbia.
According to projections from media outlets such as CNN and NBC News, the former representative of the United States to the UN achieved 63% of the votes, compared to Trump's 33% in the Republican Party primaries that were held this weekend in the capital.
It was a merely symbolic victory because DC only corresponds to 19 delegates out of the 2,429 that the country has.
As a further peculiarity of the complex system of electing presidential candidates in the United States, the DC primaries have lasted three days, they started last Friday and have lasted until this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. local time, when the polls closed.
The White House hopefuls are now focusing their attention on Super Tuesday, when the results of 16 states will be known in elections that represent the largest harvest of delegates of all the presidential primary days.
Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden dominate the internal contests of their parties and are on track to secure their candidacies this same month.