Former President Donald Trump is set to scoop up hundreds of delegates on Super Tuesday, likely putting him less than 200 delegates away from securing his third GOP nomination for president.
March began with a win for Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary in the District of Columbia, but the month is all but guaranteed to end with former President Donald Trump clinching the nomination and eliminating her from the race.
Mr. Trump is set to scoop up hundreds of delegates on Tuesday when 15 states strongly favoring the former president vote in Republican primaries. Just one day earlier, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states cannot strip Mr. Trump’s name from ballots over claims that he engaged in an insurrection.
If predictions hold, he will end the day fewer than 200 delegates away from securing his third Republican presidential nomination. He is projected to win the vast majority of the 884 delegates up for grabs in Super Tuesday contests.
Still, Mr. Trump won’t win a spot on the November ballot this week. That means Ms. Haley could battle on until at least March 19, when contests in a handful of states will likely give Mr. Trump the primary victory.
For now, Ms. Haley has slowed Mr. Trump’s inevitable march to the nomination with her win in the D.C. primary, where she picked up 19 delegates.
Her campaign team boasted that her victory shows she has momentum ahead of Super Tuesday and beyond and is aggressively reaching out to supporters with fundraising requests.
Despite her long odds, Ms. Haley insists she is not quitting and has set up a “leadership team” of state and local Republican leaders in Georgia, which holds a primary with 59 delegates up for grabs on March 12.
On Sunday, she disavowed a Republican National Committee pledge to support Mr. Trump if he becomes the nominee.
“I think I’ll make what decision I want to make, but that’s not something I’m thinking about,” she said on “Meet the Press” on NBC.
