MN Republican Presidential Primary 2024: Live Election Results

MINNESOTA — The polls are now closed, and Minnesota's Republican voters have had their say. The Associated Press projects that former President Donald Trump will win the North Star State.

Party operatives and campaign workers did not have to wait long to see if Nikki Haley could swing an upset.

As expected, Minnesotans will hand Trump another victory as he looks to clinch the GOP presidential nomination this month.

Patch will provide live vote totals as ballots come in across the state.

Donald J. Trump
64,657
69.15%

Vivek Ramaswamy
393
0.42%

Ron DeSantis
1,105
1.18%

Nikki Haley
26,824
28.69%

Chris Christie
322
0.34%

Write-In
195
0.21%

Haley visited Minnesota last week ahead of the primary. She told a crowd of about 500 people in a hotel ballroom in Bloomington that her opponent was underperforming in the race.

"[Trump] lost 40% of the primary vote in all of the early states," she said. "You can’t win the general election if you can’t win that 40 percent."

On Monday, Trump called into a Minnesota conservative talk radio show and falsely claimed for the first time that he won Minnesota in the 2020 election.

"Since you have time and you're talking to the Ox, I got to think that maybe after disappointing years in 16 and 20, that you think you have a shot at winning Minnesota this year?" the host asked.

"Well, I thought we won it last time, I'll be honest," Trump said. "And I think we did win it. And it's very interesting. Bad things happened with Minnesota."

In fact, Biden won Minnesota, 52.4 percent to Trump's 45.28 percent. Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton, who won Minnesota in 2016 by less than 2 percent of the vote.

Minnesota's Democratic Party chairman, Ken Martin, quickly released a statement on Trump's false claim.

“Donald Trump’s lies about losing Minnesota underscore the unprecedented threat that he poses to our democracy," said Martin. "These are the same lies that he pushed when he sent his supporters to attack the Capitol on January 6, and they are just as dangerous today. Minnesota has had a long, bipartisan tradition of embracing democracy and free elections. By choosing retribution and revenge over our democracy, Donald Trump has put himself on the wrong side of Minnesota values."

Reporting from the Associated Press was used in this story.