Former President Donald Trump rolled to victory in Saturday’s Missouri GOP caucuses, including in Texas County.
The Associated Press called the race for Trump around noon, as Republicans gathered throughout the state to begin the process of allocating Missouri’s 54 delegates to the Republican National Convention.
In Texas County, five delegates went to Trump. He also picked up five for the congressional district meeting and the state convention, according to a press release from the Missouri Republican Party.
While Saturday’s contest was technically to select delegates to congressional district and state conventions, Trump was always likely to prevail. Not only is he dominating national polls against former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, he’s proven to be wildly popular in Missouri — winning the state’s electoral votes in 2016 and 2020 by landslides.
On Saturday afternoon, the Missouri Republican Party said in a news release that Trump won every county in the state — meaning he shut Haley out in terms of getting any delegates to the congressional district or state conventions.
So how many people actually bothered to attend the Texas County caucus? News reports said Greene County only had around 500 people show up.