More delegates are up for grabs on Saturday as former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley pursues her first victory and former President Donald Trump attempts to move closer to securing the Republican nomination.
It is anticipated that Trump, who is particularly effective in caucuses, will increase his lead even more in delegates in the Republican caucuses in Missouri and Idaho as well as at the party convention in Michigan.
On Saturday, there are no Democratic contests.
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Michigan
The state Republican party will select the majority of the delegates it will send to the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July, where the party will formally select its nominee for president in 2024 during Saturday’s convention.
Thirty-nine of the state’s 55 GOP presidential delegates are up for grabs. It is anticipated that the party will back Trump.
The Republican primary in Michigan on February 27 was easily won by Trump, who took home 68% of the vote to Haley’s 27%.
The victory demonstrated Trump’s popularity in Michigan before November, but the majority of Michigan’s GOP delegates will be distributed on Saturday.
After Democrats, who run the state government, pushed Michigan into the early primary states against the wishes of the national Republican Party, Michigan Republicans were forced to divide their allotment of delegates into two halves.
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Missouri
The Missouri GOP will be conducting a series of caucuses and conventions to elect delegates to represent Missouri at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, WI, on July 16-18, 2024, where the Republican Party will elect the nominee for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States.
This is the only opportunity for Missouri voters to influence the party’s nominee for president in November, which is this Saturday’s presidential caucus hosted by the Missouri GOP.
The new system, which is almost entirely managed by volunteers on the Republican side, will be tested for the first time this year.
GOP Governor Mike Parson signed a 2022 law that, among other things, canceled the scheduled March 12 presidential primary, which prompted the organization of the caucuses.
Leaders of the state’s Democratic and Republican parties have called for lawmakers to reinstate the primary, but they have not succeeded. On March 23, Democrats will have a primary run by their party.
Under Missouri’s previous presidential primary system, Trump won twice.
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Idaho
Idaho Republican State Central Committee overwhelmingly voted to choose delegates for the 2024 Republican National Convention’s Presidential Nominating contest through a caucus system, adopting a caucus proposal at our summer meeting in Challis, Idaho.
“This vote moves Idaho into the early stages of the Republican Presidential nominating fight — allowing Idaho Republicans to vote before Super Tuesday,” said the Idaho GOP.
There will be a County Caucus in each county in the state.
The counties invited Republican candidates and voters to attend and take part.
There will be secret ballot voting. With the caveat that any candidate receiving more than 50% of the total statewide votes will receive all of the Idaho delegates for the Republican National Convention, delegates for the Republican National Convention will be distributed proportionately to the results of the statewide votes in the Idaho Republican Presidential Caucus.
The Democratic presidential caucuses are scheduled for May 23, while the Republican caucuses are scheduled for this Saturday.
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About 40,000 of the nearly 200,000 registered Republican voters in the state turned out for the last GOP caucuses in Idaho in 2012 to choose their favorite candidate.
All Republican voters who wish to participate this year must show up in person. They will cast their votes following brief remarks from the candidates or their representatives.
All of the Idaho delegates will go to the candidate who receives more than 50% of the state’s votes. Each candidate with at least 15% of the total votes will receive a proportionate number of delegates if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.
After every vote has been counted throughout the state, the Idaho GOP will declare the results.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas won the 2016 Idaho primary, with Trump coming in a distant second.
The GOP caucus in Washington, D.C., on Sunday is the next competition, followed by Super Tuesday, which is scheduled for two days later.
It will be the biggest voting day of the year outside of the November election, with 16 states and American Samoa holding primaries. Days later, Trump is expected to secure the nomination.
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