NEARING END, A (SMALL) VICTORY FOR NIKKI HALEY. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has slogged through the Republican primary schedule — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan — without a single victory. Now, she has one. On Sunday night, Haley won the District of Columbia Republican primary and, with it, 19 delegates to the GOP convention. Her campaign was, of course, happy — finally, a win — but the truth is, it seemed pretty subdued. “It’s not surprising the Republicans closest to Washington dysfunction are rejecting Donald Trump and all his chaos,” spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas said in a press release, noting that Haley is now “the first woman to win a Republican primary in United States history.”
Trump supporters quickly mocked Haley for winning in “the swamp.” The deep-blue city of Washington has never voted for Trump in any election. Marco Rubio won the 2016 GOP primary in the nation’s capital, while Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden absolutely trounced Trump in the 2016 and 2020 general elections. Haley now joins the group of those who have defeated Trump in Washington.
