Washington State held their
presidential primary on May 24th, for both the Republican
and Democratic parties. The Republican party is the only one that
the day counted for though. For the Democrats, the primary is just a
beauty pageant, this is because the Washington State Democrats pick
their Democratic delegate dispersion through caucuses that they held
on March 26th. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won the
Democratic caucuses. The Washington State Republicans pick their
Republican delegate dispersion through a primary, that had 44
delegates up for grabs. Democrats can vote in the primary for
Democratic candidates but all results are unbound since their
delegates were bound by the previous caucuses.
Billionaire Donald Trump was unopposed
in the Republican primary in Washington State since all of his rivals
have suspended their campaigns. Trump collected 75.8 percent of the
vote and has collected 40 of the 44 delegates so far. With the
Washington State win, Trump was up to 1,229 delegates, just short of
the 1,237 required total to clinch the Republican presidential
nomination. Since the Washington State primary, through Republican
superdelegates – yes the Republican party has superdelegates as
well – Trump is now up to 1,239 delegates, over the requirement to
win the nomination.
The final Republican presidential
nomination contests are today in California (proportional), Montana
(winner take all), New Jersey (winner take all), New Mexico
(proportional), and South Dakota (winner take all). The Democrats
have contests in the same states today as well as North Dakota.
Despite winning the Republican presidential nomination already, Trump
still needs to perform well in today's contests. Low percentage
wins, or even worse loses to candidates that have suspended their
campaigns, would give ammunition for his opponents the former New
Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Governor
William Weld, the presidential and vice presidential team for the
Libertarian party, and former New York Senator Hillary Clinton, the
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The next edition of The
Campaign Trail 2016 will come out after today's results are
completed.
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