Former President Donald Trump crossed the threshold of the 1,215 delegates needed to become the GOP‘s presumptive nominee during Tuesday’s night primaries.
Trump won’t be awarded the nomination till the Republican convention in Milwaukee in July, but he surpassed the party’s delegate threshold Tuesday night after winning Washington’s Republican primary. The Associated Press called the state for Trump at 11:05 p.m. Eastern time. With about a third of the vote counted, Trump had 72% of the vote. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the primary one day after Super Tuesday, netted 24%.
Trump has been the unofficial nominee after Haley dropped out of the race, clearing the path for Trump to be nominated for the third time. Before Tuesday night, the former president had already netted 1,089 delegates, but with the results from Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington, Trump reached the delegates needed.
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“The Republican National Committee has just declared us the official nominee. And so we’re the official nominee of the Republican Party, which is a big deal. But most importantly, we now have to go into victory because our country is in serious trouble,” Trump said after winning Washington.
He continued, “Again, this was a great day a victory last week was something very special Super Tuesday, but now we have to get back to work because we have the worst president in the history of our country. His name is Joe Biden sometimes referred to as crooked Joe Biden, and he must be defeated.”
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