Nevada’s duelling Republican primary and caucus thwart Haley-Trump rematch
Al Jazeera
Both candidates seek to be Republican nominee, but only one is eligible to win delegates in unorthodox Nevada.
The latest contest in the United States presidential primary season is set to be a Republican doubleheader, with not one but two races in a single state.
The problem is, only one will carry weight in the battle for the party nomination.
This week, Nevada, a battleground state in the southwest, is set to host both a Republican primary and a Republican caucus — rival events poised to spur voter confusion.
The US already has a notoriously idiosyncratic election process. In the lead-up to a presidential election, candidates compete for delegates in state-level votes in order to receive major party nominations. Whoever wins the most party delegates becomes the nominee.
Typically, states hold either a primary or caucuses to determine how their party delegates are divided up.
