Former President Donald Trump is projected to cross the threshold of the 1,215 delegates needed to become the GOP‘s presumptive nominee during Tuesday’s night primaries.
Trump won’t be awarded the nomination till the Republican convention in Milwaukee in July, but he surpassed the party’s delegate threshold Tuesday night after winning Washington’s Republican primary. The Associated Press called the state for Trump at 11:05 p.m. Eastern time. With about a third of the vote counted, Trump had 72% of the vote. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the primary one day after Super Tuesday, netted 24%.
Trump has been the unofficial nominee after Haley dropped out of the race, clearing the path for Trump to be nominated for the third time. Before Tuesday night, the former president had already netted 1,089 delegates,
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