Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley narrowly won Vermont’s GOP primary on Super Tuesday handing former President Donald Trump his first loss of the night.
Haley and Trump remained neck-and-neck as the ballots were counted more than three hours after the race had finished. Although polls closed at 7 p.m. ET, The Associated Press didn’t call the race until 3 hours and 37 minutes afterward.
Haley had 49.7% of the vote to Trump’s 46%, with 86% of the ballots counted.
This is likely Haley’s only primary win of the Tuesday elections and her second primary win after she won Washington, D.C.’s GOP primary on Sunday.
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Still, the two wins won’t block Trump from becoming the presumptive GOP nominee later this month. The former president trounced Haley in all other Super Tuesday states, in which results have been announced. He currently has 413 delegates far above Haley’s 52 delegates.
In Maine, Massachusetts, and Virginia, states that Haley could have performed well, she instead quickly lost to Trump.
Haley is not set to deliver remarks Tuesday night as she watches returns from the Charleston, South Carolina area. But the former president spoke at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago after he had won several state GOP primaries.
“They tell me, the pundits and otherwise, that there’s never been one like this. There’s never been anything so conclusive,” Trump said. “This was an amazing, an amazing night, an amazing day. It’s been an incredible period of time in our country’s history.”
Haley’s future is uncertain as there are no public campaign events on her schedule this week.
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She has long maintained that her campaign would last through Super Tuesday, but has not explicitly said she would suspend her presidential campaign.