Nevada Primary: Haley loses to “no candidate” and Biden wins unsurprisingly

Haley’s campaign downplayed the outcome. In fact, he already said he was going to focus on that “States where competition is fair“And did not campaign in Nevada, where Republicans pushed for changes to election rules and established caucuses and primary registrations that, supposedly, favored Trump.

“Even Trump knows that when you bet on the slot machines, the house wins,” Haley’s campaign spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas said. He added, “We did not bother to play a trick game in Trump’s favor.”

On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden won. The president was on the ballot with other minor candidates, including Marian Williamson, and the option “none of these candidates.”

About two hours after the polls closed, many media outlets declared the president the winner, when less than 20% of the votes had been counted.

Rap. Dean Phillips entered the presidential race after the nomination deadline, so he was not on the ballot.

Nevada celebrates both methods this year: the primaries of the Democratic and Republican parties this Tuesday, and just two days later, on February 8, the Republican ‘caucus’, a type of assembly that voters must attend at a specific time to vote. Your candidate.

For decades, Nevada has hosted caucuses. In 2021, a law was approved that abandoned this voting model and established that state authorities have to hold primaries when there is more than one candidate.

Although the law established that there must be a primary, it did not specify how the Republican Party would assign delegates to the winner, who officially declare both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president during party conventions.

Taking advantage of that legal loophole, Trump forced the party in Nevada to ignore state law and continue its tradition of ‘caucuses’, where he could declare himself the outright winner.

So, this week’s Nevada presidential caucuses and primary duels created confusion among voters.

In the caucuses, Trump competed with a little-known Texas pastor named Ryan Binkley, while his biggest opponent, Nikki Haley, is not running in the caucuses, but will appear on the primary ballot because she has decided to follow state law.

Thursday night’s caucuses are widely expected to favor Trump. With his strong popular support, Trump already has an advantage when the caucuses are held instead of the primaries.

In Nevada, about 2.3 million voters are registered to vote. Of this total, 31% are Democrats, 28% are Republicans and 34% are independents, according to official data.