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While President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are each already the presumptive 2024 presidential nominees for their respective political parties, some voters are still rejecting them in presidential primaries.
While results are still rolling in, according to the results so far in the New Mexico Republican presidential primary, more than 10% of voters cast their ballot for someone other than Trump. While Trump has earned more than 69,000 votes, more than 7,000 voted for former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, and more than 2,000 voted uncommitted.
'New Mexico has a closed primary.'
Haley, who dropped out earlier this year, has said that she will vote for Trump. Trump, who has repeatedly referred to Haley as "Birdbrain" in the past, described her as a "very capable person" last month after she publicly said that she planned to vote for him.
According to the results being reported so far, Biden earned more than 95,000 votes in the New Mexico Democratic presidential primary, while more than 11,000 voted uncommitted, and more than 7,000 voted for Marianne Williamson.
"New Mexico has a closed primary, so only those registered in a major political party may participate in the primary election," according to sos.nm.gov.
Biden and Trump are slated to debate later this month for the first time during the 2024 election cycle. The event, which will be moderated by CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, will take place in Georgia.
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Trump Can’t ‘Drain The Swamp’ If He Keeps Endorsing Its Worst Offenders
As head of the Republican Party, Trump has an obligation to his voters to ensure the candidates he's backing in primaries will advance conservative priorities.Biden notches lackluster victory in Kentucky Democratic presidential primary
While President Joe Biden has already been the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee for more than two months, the incumbent clinched fewer than three quarters of the vote in the Kentucky Democratic presidential primary.
Based on the results reported so far, while Biden earned over 131,000 votes, more than 32,000 people voted uncommitted while more than 11,000 voted for Marianne Williamson, and more than 8,000 voted for Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who is no longer running.
Kentucky has been a reliably red state in presidential contests for two decades.
"Kentucky conducts closed primaries. Under Kentucky law, all persons who want to vote in the Democratic Party's or Republican Party's Primary Election must have changed their party affiliation by December 31 of the year prior to the next Primary Election," according to vrsws.sos.ky.gov.
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, earned the bulk of the vote in the Kentucky Republican presidential primary.
But while the results currently indicate that Trump earned more than 214,000 votes, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley — who dropped out of the primary earlier this year — earned more than 16,000 votes while more than 8,000 people voted uncommitted, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other former GOP presidential primary candidates also received some votes.
Kentucky has been a reliably red state in presidential contests for two decades, going the Republican candidate in every election from 2000 through 2020.
Incumbent GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who has been in office for more than a decade, easily won his primary in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District.
"Tonight's victory is a referendum on thousands of independent votes I have cast in Washington DC on behalf of Kentucky's 4th District," he said in a statement. "I look forward to continuing our fight for personal liberty, economic freedom, fiscal responsibility, and Constitutionally limited government."
Massie had joined GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia in advocating to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from the speakership, but the effort ultimately failed as many Republicans and Democrats voted to table Greene's motion to vacate.
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Larry Hogan, Jim Justice win Republican US Senate primaries
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, easily won Maryland's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday while current West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice easily won the Republican U.S. Senate primary in his state.
Hogan has never voted for Trump. In 2016, he wrote in his father, Larry Hogan Sr. Then, in 2020, he wrote in the late President Ronald Reagan. And during this cycle, Hogan has said that he will not vote for Trump or President Joe Biden.
Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland is not seeking re-election. Hogan, who served as governor from early 2015 through early 2023, is aiming to fill that seat.
'Big Jim will be a Great UNITED STATES SENATOR, and has my Complete & Total Endorsement.'
Justice has served as West Virginia governor since early 2017. He was elected as a Democrat in 2016 but announced in 2017 that he was switching his registration to Republican.
The Democrat-turned-Republican governor defeated U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney of West Virginia and others in the Senate primary.
Trump had endorsed Justice last year, declaring in a post on Truth Social, "Big Jim will be a Great UNITED STATES SENATOR, and has my Complete & Total Endorsement."
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is not seeking re-election, so Justice will be aiming to win that seat.
While Trump is the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the primary more than two months ago, has been earning thousands of votes in Republican presidential primaries.
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