Trump to officially clinch Republican nomination next week following Nikki Haley exit: campaign
Former President Trump will officially have enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination for president next week — doing so more five days sooner than in 2020, his campaign told The Post.
Trump needs to secure at least 1,215 delegates in state primaries and caucuses to make his nomination a mathematical certainty.
With all of his challengers out of the way, Trump, who has 1,075 delegates as of Saturday, is expected to easily get there on Tuesday, when Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington — a combined 161 delegates — hold their nominating contests.
“The primary is over and President Trump will clinch the nomination sooner than he did in 2020,” when he became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on March 17, said Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s campaign press secretary.
“The American people have spoken and this is nothing short of historic. Now we look towards defeating Crooked Joe Biden and delivering a resounding win for the greatest president in the history of our country, President Donald J. Trump.”
Former President Trump ran the table in early nominating states and took every Super Tuesday state this week except Vermont — which he lost to his former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley.
Haley also won the primary in the District of Columbia.
Haley exited the presidential race earlier this week without endorsing Trump.
Once Trump passes the delegate threshold, he will be the presumptive GOP nominee until he is officially nominated at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee in July.
