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Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Casino Royale!

And they said he can't win.

The results of the Nevada primary came at 1am and it was a no brainer.

President Joe Biden won the Nevada primary with 91% of the vote. It is still counting but a clear and decisive win against Marianne Williamson. Dean Phillips was not on the ballot so I guess the 9% of none of the above may have went to him.

Nikki Haley also lost as well. While she pulled in 30% of the vote. Over 60% of the vote went to none of these above. So by default, former president Donald J. Trump won.

The Republicans won't get the delegates due to the primary not being sanctioned.

Nevada voters in the state-run primary had a choice to reject all the candidates on the ballot, and they did just that — with more people choosing to vote for “none of these candidates” than for Haley.

It was a stinging rebuke of Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina governor — and one that some party leaders had encouraged. The outcome in Nevada was Haley's third consecutive loss in an early-state primary contest.

Still, Haley's campaign indicated that the results wouldn't affect how long she'd stay in the race.

"Even Donald Trump knows that when you play penny slots, the house wins. We didn’t bother to play a game rigged for Trump. We’re full steam ahead in South Carolina and beyond," spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas said.

As long as it takes.

Nevada once exclusively used caucuses for its presidential elections. But in 2021, the Democratic-led Legislature changed the law so that the state instead held a primary election, which included early voting, and the opportunity to vote by mail. The Nevada GOP insisted on holding caucuses apart from the state-run election, saying it wanted to control its own contest, using its own rules. The party dictated that candidates weren’t allowed to compete in both elections and that only those competing in the caucuses could win delegates. 

Haley wasn’t alone in bypassing the caucuses. Former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina had also filed to run in the state-run GOP primary before they dropped out of the race. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ former campaign and the super PAC that was backing him complained that the Nevada GOP held biases toward Trump but chose to compete in the caucuses before he dropped out just before the New Hampshire primary last month.

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