Trump increased the advantage of primaries in Washington

Billionaire Donald Trump won the primary elections of the Republican Party in Washington, Bloomberg reports with reference to preliminary voting results.

At the moment, 67% of the vote is calculated. Trump leads with 76%. His former rivals, Senator Texas Ted Cruz and Sajor John Caisik gain 10%each. Another 4% is the doctor Ben Karson. In Washington, candidates are fighting for the votes of 44 delegates.

Cruise and Keisik withdrew from the elections in early May, and Carson announced the suspension of the election campaign in March, without making an official statement about leaving the race. Although Trump after that remained the only candidate for the US president from the Republicans, he will have a formal nomination by a single candidate from the party at the Republican Congress.

In particular, he will have to achieve the support of 1237 delegates following the results of the primaries - according to CNN, now he has 1229 votes in a piggy bank. For the sake of this formal procedure, the initial vote was continued. Voices for inactive participants in the election race, whose names remained in pre -printed ballots, are counted as “protest”.

Meanwhile, in Albuquerque, the campaign of Trump's opponents grew into clashes with the police. Activists report the use of pepper gas law enforcement forces.

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On May 24, the primaries of the Democratic Party, which the former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also took place in Washington in Washington. However, this result will not affect the campaign, since earlier the Democrats decided to count for the state the results of cocusing on March 26, on which the only rival Clinton, Senator Vermont Bernie Sanders, was leading .

To nominate a single candidate from the Democratic Party, Clinton remains to gain votes of 146 delegates, while Sanders will need 893 votes to win.

The presidential election will be held on November 8.