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WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley won the Republican primary for the first time, defeating former President Donald Trump in the U.S. capital Washington on Sunday. Foreign agencies are reporting on this today, but they say it is mainly a symbolic success as Trump continues to dominate the nomination process.
The two-and-a-half-year-old politician defeated Trump by 62.9 percent to 33.2 percent, winning all 19 of the delegates here. "It's not surprising that the Republicans closest to dysfunctional Washington are rejecting Donald Trump and all his chaos," said a statement from the campaign of Haley, who became the first woman ever to win any of the Republican nominating votes.
In response, the Trump campaign sarcastically congratulated Haley on her appointment as "queen of the swamp of Washington lobbyists and insiders who want to protect the dysfunctional status quo."
Washington is a predominantly Democratic city, with only about 23,000 registered Republicans among its roughly 700,000 residents, a significant number of whom are moderates. Trump also lost here in the 2016 primary.
Despite the current success, the agencies consider Haley's chances of winning the Republican nomination for president to be slim. Trump has clearly defeated her in the previous eight nominating votes and is expected to win in virtually all other US states.
The nomination requires 1,215 delegates. Trump now has 247, Haley 43, according to NBC News.
If the assumptions are confirmed, the 77-year-old politician will face Democratic President Joe Biden in the November elections. So far, opinion polls see Trump as a slight favourite in such a contest.
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