Former President Trump continued to steamroll his way to the Republican nomination on Saturday by winning every delegate at stake in three states. Trump easily won caucuses in Idaho and Missouri and swept all the delegates up for grabs at a party convention in Michigan, reports the AP. He now has 244 delegates to Nikki Haley's 24, and Trump is expected to reach the needed threshold of 1,215 delegates later this month. A big chunk of that total should come in next week's Super Tuesday voting.
Donald Trump built onto his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Saturday, winning the Missouri GOP caucuses and all the delegates available at the Michigan party's caucus convention. Idaho Republicans were to hold caucuses later in the day, the Washington Post reports. In Grand Rapids, Trump was awarded 39 delegates based on a vote per congressional district. He also was allotted 12 from the state's primary on Tuesday, per the New York Times, in which Nikki Haley received four delegates.
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The take for Trump was 54 delegates in Missouri, which was using a new system for the first time after dropping its primary, per NBC News. At a church in Columbia, a Haley supporter's experience showed what his candidate is up against. "I don't need to hear about Mr. Trump's dalliances with people of unsavory character, nor do my children," Seth Christensen told the gathering in a church that made its opposition to his viewpoint clear, per the AP. "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." One caucusgoer shouted in response, "Are you a Republican?"
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