Nikki Haley wins in Vermont, denying Trump a Super Tuesday sweep
Nikki Haley won Washington, DC's primary earlier in March. Despite her win in Vermont, she's still trailing Trump's delegate count by a wide margin.
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- Nikki Haley won her first state primary on Tuesday: Vermont.
- She won Washington, DC's primary earlier in March.
- Haley still trails Trump's delegate count by a wide margin.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley won Vermont's Republican primary, according to the Associated Press and DDHQ, preventing former President Donald Trump from sweeping Super Tuesday's contests.
The former president has easily won every race he's been in this year other than Washington DC's, amassing hundreds more delegates than Haley.
Haley may have won Vermont's primary, besting her former boss, but her road to winning the GOP nomination appears increasingly fraught.
A candidate needs to obtain a majority of all available state delegates to become the party's nominee at the Republican National Convention in July. Trump's campaign has predicted for weeks that he'll hit that target by March 12.
Trump and his campaign's predictions may have been spoiled by Haley's win in Vermont, giving the former governor of South Carolina more time to bolster her message before the next slew of state primaries on the calendar.
At the end of January, Haley said she couldn't make any predictions about keeping her campaign afloat past Super Tuesday.
"I take it one state at a time," she said at the time. "I don't think too far ahead."
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