According to Edison Research, the former US ambassador to the UN won 62.9 percent. votes and Donald Trump 33.2 percent. The victory will bring her the votes of 19 delegates to the national convention of the Republican Party, compared to the 1,215 necessary to obtain the nomination of the party's presidential candidate.
As highlighted by the Associated Press, this slowed down, at least temporarily, Trump's winning march to the nomination, although the former president will most likely win several hundred more delegates to the national convention next "Super Tuesday" when residents of 15 states and 1 US overseas territory will vote. The votes of 874 delegates will be up for grabs.
Trump won all eight primaries so far by a significant margin and, according to projections, he can count on victories in those yet to be held.
Haley announced Friday, before the District of Columbia primary, that regardless of the outcome, she plans to keep fighting.
Reuter notes that the District of Columbia has 100 percent. urban character and has a relatively large percentage of residents with higher education. However, Trump's electoral base consists mainly of small settlements and towns with poorly educated people.
The Washington area is also inhabited by a significant number of employees of federal agencies and institutions who - as Trump's allies announce - will be fired en masse if he wins the November elections and replaced with people loyal to the new tenant of the White House.
Trump himself - as Reuter emphasizes - has always had a negative attitude towards the US capital, which he often described as a "swamp" with high crime and run by "elites detached from reality."
Trump also lost in the District of Columbia during the 2016 primaries. He won only 14 percent. votes and no delegates, which did not prevent him from winning on a national scale and receiving the Republican nomination.
