Nikki Haley seeks to avoid getting shut out in the 2024 contest

It’s still early, but former President Donald Trump could well win every single Republican presidential nominating contest — a feat that hasn’t been accomplished by a non-incumbent presidential candidate in more than two decades.

This weekend, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley may have her best chance to stop that from happening.

So far, Trump has racked up a 5-0 record against Haley in the states with the first primaries and caucuses, including Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina and Michigan.

The current delegate count stands at Trump 110, Haley 20 — with looming contests in the likes of Idaho (on Saturday), Washington, D.C. (with primary voting concluding on Sunday), North Dakota (on Monday) and more than a dozen primaries and caucuses (on Super Tuesday). In particular, Washington, D.C., where Trump got just 14% in a very low-turnout 2016 primary, provides an opportunity for Haley to notch her first win of 2024.

Marco Rubio, with a political coalition then similar to Haley’s, won the district in 2016.

A pair of Super Tuesday states also could be opportunities for Haley: Virginia (where she campaigned on Thursday) and Massachusetts (where registered Republicans made up less than half of the electorate in its 2016 GOP primary).

Otherwise, Trump looks set to run the GOP table, making the 2024 Republican race the least competitive presidential nominating fight since 2000.

That was the last time that a non-incumbent presidential candidate went undefeated in primaries and caucuses in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, when then-Vice President Al Gore did it.

The closest that Democratic rival Bill Bradley got to Gore was in the 2000 New Hampshire primary, where he lost by a few percentage points.

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