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.”
President Trump’s win in Massachusetts was the dominant topic on Boston’s popular conservative early-morning radio talk show, The Kuhner Report. “The president is clearly on a winning streak,” host Jeff Kuhner, self-billed as “Liberalism’s Worst Nightmare,” said as he opened his show, which kicks off at 6 a.m., the start of Boston’s heavily congested rush hour commute.
Ahead of the state’s Super Tuesday vote, President Trump’s Massachusetts campaign manager Tom Hodgson told The Epoch Times he was confident that Bay State voters would choose President Trump because of his “relentless promise” to close down the border and end the massive flood of illegal immigrants into the United States.
“It doesn’t matter if you are Democrat or Republican, it’s impacting everyone, especially here,” Mr. Hodgson said.
Using the state’s right to shelter law, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has housed illegal immigrants all over the state including recently in a popular recreation center in Boston’s historic black community of Roxbury. The move displaced the community’s youth from a variety of athletic and after-school programs.
Mr. Hodgson said that people recognize the “flagrant catch-22” that politicians, such as Ms. Healey, have created. They are displacing local youth from the very places that taxpayers have willingly funded to keep local kids safe, and are forcing them onto the streets, where “fentanyl is pouring into the United States alongside immigration,” he said.
“Now they are back where the drug dealers can target them. It’s pure nonsense,” he added.
On the Democratic side in Massachusetts, President Joe Biden eased into a primary win in Massachusetts. Despite President Biden’s no-campaign candidacy, he took 83 percent of the vote. Contenders Dean Phillips took 4.6 percent of the vote and Marianne Williamson took 3.1, according to figures from The Associated Press.
