BOSTON, Mass.—Massachusetts voters handed former President Donald Trump a landslide victory over former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley in the state’s Republican presidential primary.
Defying speculation that Democrats in one of the blue states in the United States would mount a crossover campaign to ensure a defeat for President Trump, the frontrunner trounced Ms. Haley by a nearly two-to-one margin.
Massachusetts is an open primary state, and with its large pool of nearly 3.2 million independent voters, people are free to participate in either party’s primary.
According to The Associated Press poll results, President Trump garnered 60 percent of the votes and Ms. Haley garnered 37 percent in the New England state.
The win adds 40 more delegates to President Trump’s sizable cache, putting him well on a path to becoming the Republican nominee and returning to the White House.
His Massachusetts win was one of many Super Tuesday victories for the former President, winning in fourteen of the fifteen states that voted on Tuesday.
The only state Ms. Haley won on Super Tuesday is Vermont, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ home state.
Despite its reputation as a bastion of liberalism, the rural northeastern state known as the ‘Northeast Kingdom’ granted her a victory by a mere four points. The former South Carolina governor’s only other primary win occurred in Washington last week.
President Trump celebrated his Super Tuesday victories in a brief speech inside the ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.
“They call it Super Tuesday for a reason,” he said. “It’s a big win.”
