Photo: Angela Weiss Agence France-Presse Former President Trump is the only Republican still in the running for the November presidential election, his conservative rivals having long since thrown in the towel.
France Media Agency in Washington
Published at 10:45 a.m.
- United States
Republican Donald Trump, candidate for the White House, survived his first electoral test Tuesday evening since his verdict in New York, during primaries in a handful of American states.
The former president is the only Republican still in the running for the November presidential election, his conservative rivals having long since thrown in the towel.
But the American electoral calendar is designed in such a way that some states still organize primaries, used to formally designate the candidate, who will be inducted in July at the party convention.
This was the case Tuesday in Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.
But if Donald Trump is officially the only Republican still in the race against Democratic President Joe Biden, the names of his former conservative rivals still appear on the ballots, printed months in advance. A particularity that some Republican voters have so far exploited to express their dissatisfaction with the billionaire.
The whole challenge of Tuesday's primaries was therefore to measure the weight of Republican voters' support for Donald Trump, after his verdict. However, the septuagenarian candidate had a good score in each of these states, for example with 85% of the votes in New Mexico.
Donald Trump was found guilty Thursday in New York of all the charges against him in a criminal trial, the first of a former American president, for having falsified documents in order to hide payments intended to buy the silence of a former X-rated movie star.
Judge Juan Merchan set sentencing for July 11, four days before the start of the Republican convention.
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