Donald Trump wins the Nevada and Virgin Islands caucuses to get closer to the White House


Thursday's caucus victory is his third and fourth victory after winning two crucial early primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire.

Former President Donald Trump smiling. — AFP/Archive

A big win for Trump fans after former President Donald Trump won two caucuses in a single day.

The former president was victorious against former United Nations (UN) Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Virgin Islands caucus and also won the Nevada caucus, which Haley had opted out of. bbc reported.

In the Nevada caucus, Trump faced pastor and businessman Ryan Binkley, who only got 381 votes compared to Trump's 48,400 votes.

Thursday's caucus victory is his third and fourth victory after winning two crucial early primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire.

Trump's only remaining opponent in the Republican race for office, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, opted not to participate in the Nevada caucus and instead opted to participate in the Nevada primary, which was held on Tuesday.

Haley suffered an embarrassing primary defeat after people voted for “neither candidate.” 63% of the people who voted did so against Haley.

In a brief speech to a victory party in Las Vegas, Donald Trump said: “If we win this state, we will easily win the November election.”

Although the outcome of the Nevada caucus was a foregone conclusion, the state will be hotly contested in November's presidential election. The vote is effectively guaranteed to be a rematch between 2020 candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Trump and Haley will next face off in the state of South Carolina.

Despite three defeats, he has vowed to keep fighting, arguing that Republican supporters want to see an alternative to Donald Trump and that “voters want elections, not a coronation.”

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