Republican Donald Trump, a candidate for the White House, survived last night the first electoral test after the verdict against him in New York, in the primaries held in some American states.

The former US president he is the only Republican remaining in the race for the November presidential election with his conservative rivals having long since conceded defeat.

But the election schedule in the US is designed in such a way that some states still hold primary elections, which serve to officially designate the candidate who will be anointed at the party’s Convention in July.

This happened yesterday in Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.

Although Donald Trump is officially the only Republican remaining in the race against the Democratic president Joe Biden, the names of his former Conservative party opponents are still on the ballot papers, as they were printed months ago. A particularity that some voters of the Republican Party took advantage of to express their displeasure in the face of the billionaire.

Therefore, the whole stake of yesterday’s primaries was to measure the support of the Republican voters for Donald Trump, after the verdict against him. Trump scored well in each of these states, securing, for example, 85% of the vote in New Mexico.

Donald Trump was found guilty last Thursday in New York of all charges against him in a criminal trial, the first against a former US president, for falsifying documents to conceal payments made to buy out the silence of a former sex film star.

Judge Juan Merchan scheduled the sentencing for July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention begins.