2024-02-09 14:55:23
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Trump clearly wins Republican primary in Nevada
As of: 3:55 p.m. | Reading time: 2 minutes
“Trump’s chances of not being removed from the ballot appear to be high”
The US Supreme Court is considering whether Trump can appear on the ballot in Colorado. The US state excluded him from the primaries because of his role in the storming of the Capitol. WELT correspondent Michael Wüllenweber analyzes Trump’s chances of success in the proceedings.
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After the state-organized primaries, Donald Trump apparently also won the Republican vote in the US state of Nevada. The US Supreme Court is skeptical regarding his exclusion from the primary election in Colorado.
Donald Trump has won the so-called caucus in the US state of Nevada, taking another step towards the Republican presidential candidacy. According to initial results, Trump was clearly ahead on Thursday (local time). US media reported that Trump would win the state’s delegate votes.
State primaries had already taken place in Nevada on Tuesday. Trump’s only remaining challenger from within the party, Nikki Haley, came in second place behind “none of these candidates”. However, Tuesday’s result didn’t matter: the Republican Party in Nevada had already declared in advance that it would ignore the primary and hold its own caucus instead.
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The delegate votes are important for the party conferences, where the parties’ candidates are formally nominated. Trump is the clear favorite in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
A caucus was also held on Thursday in the US Virgin Islands, where Trump also won. Although the U.S. Virgin Islands will not have a say in November’s presidential election, the U.S. territory will play a role in deciding the presidential candidates.
US Supreme Court is skeptical regarding Trump’s exclusion from the Colorado primary
On Thursday, the majority of the nine justices of the US Supreme Court expressed skepticism regarding excluding Trump from running for president once more. During the two-hour hearing, both conservative and liberal justices expressed concerns that individual states might decide which candidates run for president in November.
The hearing before the Supreme Court in Washington discussed whether Trump is unelectable in the US state of Colorado because of his role in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 – or whether his name can appear on the ballot in the primary election there.
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in December that Trump should not be allowed to vote in the state’s Republican presidential nomination because of his role in the storming of the Capitol. This was justified by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Trump’s lawyers therefore appealed to the Supreme Court.
Jonathan Mitchell, former deputy attorney general of the state of Texas and Trump’s representative, opened the 80-minute hearing in the Supreme Court on Thursday. He emphasized that only the US Congress can disqualify a candidate. The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision was “wrong and should be overturned.” It “takes away the votes of potentially tens of millions of Americans.”
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