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The 2024 Rhode Island Republican presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 19 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a winner-take-most basis. [1] The contest was held alongside primaries in Delaware, New York, and Wisconsin.
Those seeking to go as Trump delegates include Rep. Sherry Roberts and former state Rep. Justin Price, the only Rhode Island legislator who took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Although Harris won the state comfortably, including every county, this was the closest election in Rhode Island since 1988. Trump flipped three municipalities from 2020: Richmond , West Warwick , and Woonsocket , becoming the first Republican to win the latter since Ronald Reagan in 1984 .
Overall, Biden won Rhode Island by 20.8 points, improving on Clinton's 15.5 point win. Rhode Island is the only state in which neither Biden nor Trump broke the all-time Democrat or all-time Republican record for most votes earned in a general election (Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower).
Biden and Trump easily won primaries in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin, adding to their delegate hauls for their party conventions this summer.
Rhode Island Republican primary, April 26, 2016 Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count Bound Unbound Total Donald Trump: 39,221: 63.7%: 12: 0: 12: John Kasich 14,963 24.3% 5 0 5 Ted Cruz 6,416 10.4% 2 0 2 Uncommitted 417 0.7% 0 0 0 Marco Rubio (withdrawn) 382 0.6% 0 0 0 Write-in 215 0.3% 0 0 0 Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0 Total ...
The 2020 Rhode Island Republican presidential primary was held on June 2, 2020 along with seven other Republican presidential primaries that day. All 19 of Rhode Island's delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention were allocated according to the results. Donald Trump won the primary and all of the state's delegates.
On Monday, a federal judge in Rhode Island found that the administration has violated the “plain text” of his earlier order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal aid.