Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican presidential caucuses on March 4, 2024 adding to his string of victories heading into Super Tuesday. The former president finished first in voting conducted at twelve caucus sites, ahead of former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
The results put Trump back on the winning track, which was briefly interrupted on March 3, 2024, when Nikki Haley notched her first victory of the campaign in the District of Columbia’s primary.
The White House hopefuls now their attention on Super Tuesday, when results will pour in from sixteen states that amount to the single biggest delegate haul of any day in the presidential primary. Trump and Joe Biden, a Democrat is dominating their races and are on track to winning nominations later this month.
Under North Dakota rules, the candidates are eligible to win delegates if they finish with at least twenty percent of the vote. However, the candidate who wins at least 60 percent of the vote receives all of the state’s 29 delegates.
Four candidates were on the ballots including Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. The other candidates, who have received little attention were Florida businessman David Stuckenberg and Texas businessman and pastor Ryan Binkley, who recently ended their campaign. Retired music teacher and librarian Karen Groninger of Almont said on March 4, 2024, that she voted for Trump calling him the best choice.
The 76-year-old cited Donald Trump speech at the Annual March for Life Anti-Abortion Event in Washington DC, the first by a sitting president and his border polices. Long-time Republican State Senator Dick Dever of Bismarck, said he voted for Haley. But he added that she is unlikely to win.
The retired factory representative aged 72, said, “I hear an awful lot of people say that they really like Donald Trump’s policies, but they don’t like the way he conducts himself and I think that he has gone overboard a bit.” Caucus voters were encouraged to be paying party members, but those who wouldn’t pay USD 50 for annual membership were asked to sign a pledge to affiliate with the party caucus chair Robert Harms said.
As president, trump visited Bismarck and Mandan in 2017 to talk about tax cuts and he campaigned twice in Fargo in 2018 for Kevin Cramer in the then congressmen successful Senate Bid against Democrat Senator Hedi Heitkamp.
Noth Dakota’s Democrat NPL Party is holding presidential primary almost entirely by mail, with mail-in voting for residents of Indian reservations. President Joe Biden, Republican Dean Philips and six others are on the ballot. A third party will count ballots in Fargo on March 30, with results available on the party website afterward. Senator won the Democratic caucuses in 2016 and 2020.
