Nikki Haley is likely to win the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, several American media outlets predict.
This is a first victory for the candidate for the Republican nomination against former President Donald Trump.
This win for Nikki Haley comes two days before the famous Super Tuesday, which will be crucial in the race for the Republican nomination.
So far, his rival Donald Trump has often won all of his party's primaries with large majorities.
The fifty-year-old, a former American ambassador to the UN under Donald Trump, cultivates the image of a more moderate candidate who promises to restore some “normality” among conservatives.
However, according to a poll taken in South Carolina last Saturday, 40% of his supporters said they opposed Donald Trump's candidacy.
“A big wake-up call,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former president’s former communications director, while he was at the White House.
“Someone running as a virtual incumbent president — Donald Trump — gets 60 percent of the vote and 40 percent are against him? “It’s not exactly a coronation,” she said during an exchange on CNN.
“Donald Trump has a problem, whether he wants to admit it or not,” Nikki Haley warned in a statement Tuesday after losing a new primary to the former leader in Michigan.
“40% of Republican voters want nothing to do with him and he is doing absolutely nothing to bring them into his increasingly exclusive group,” she said.