Sunday was primary day in the nation’s capital.
ByTal Axelrod and Oren Oppenheim March 3, 2024, 9:18 PM
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is projected to win Washington, D.C.’s Republican primary on Sunday, ABC News reports, her first primary win over former President Donald Trump, but one that does little to ameliorate the daunting task of actually leapfrogging him in the race for the GOP nomination.
The projected win will make Haley the first woman to ever win a Republican presidential primary or caucus.
According to research from the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics about major female presidential candidates, Republican candidate Margaret Chase Smith (1964) was the first woman to have her name placed into nomination for President but hadn’t won any primaries.
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