Super Tuesday: Nikki Haley ekes out a win over Trump in Vermont

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley narrowly won Vermont’s GOP primary on Super Tuesday, handing former President Donald Trump his first loss of the night.

Haley and Trump remained neck and neck as ballots were counted more than three hours after the race had finished. Although polls closed at 7 p.m. Eastern time, The Associated Press didn’t call the race until three hours and 37 minutes afterward.

Haley had 49.7% of the vote to Trump’s 46%, with 86% of the ballots counted.

This is likely Haley’s only primary win of the Tuesday elections and her second primary win after she won the Washington, D.C., GOP primary on Sunday.

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Still, the two wins won’t block Trump from becoming the presumptive GOP nominee later this month. The former president trounced Haley in all other Super Tuesday states in which results have been announced. He has 413 delegates, far above Haley’s 52 delegates.

In Maine, Massachusetts, and Virginia, states where Haley could have performed well, she instead quickly lost to Trump.

Haley is not set to deliver remarks Tuesday night as she watches returns from the Charleston, South Carolina, area. But the former president spoke at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago after he won several state GOP primaries.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley makes comments at a campaign event in Forth Worth, Texas, Monday, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

“They tell me, the pundits and otherwise, that there’s never been one like this. There’s never been anything so conclusive,” Trump said. “This was an amazing, an amazing night, an amazing day. It’s been an incredible period of time in our country’s history.”

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Haley’s future is uncertain as there are no public campaign events on her schedule this week.

She has long maintained that her campaign would last through Super Tuesday but has not explicitly said she would suspend her presidential campaign.