Nikki Haley should win the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, several American media predict.
This is a first victory for the candidate for the Republican nomination against former President Donald Trump.
This gain for Nikki Haley comes two days before the famous “Super Tuesday”, which will be decisive for the race for the Republican nomination.
So far, his rival Donald Trump has won each of his party’s primaries, often by a large majority.
The fifty-year-old, former American ambassador to the UN under Donald Trump, cultivates an image of a more moderate candidate, promising to restore a certain “normality” among conservatives.
However, according to an exit poll last Saturday in South Carolina, 40% of his supporters indicated that they were opposed to the candidacy of Donald Trump.
“A huge wake-up call,” according to Alyssa Farah Griffin, former communications director for the former president, when he was at the White House.
“Someone who’s practically running as an incumbent president — Donald Trump — gets 60 percent of the vote and 40 percent are against him? “It’s not exactly a coronation,” she said during an exchange on CNN.
“Donald Trump has a problem, whether he wants to admit it or not,” Nikki Haley warned in a statement Tuesday after losing a new primary to the former leader in Michigan.
“40% of Republican voters want nothing to do with him and he is doing absolutely nothing to include them in his increasingly exclusive group,” she said.
