MADISON (WKOW)-- Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has won Wyoming's county
conventions in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the
Associated Press reported Saturday.
The win gives Romney more delegates, as Republican candidates race to be the first to get to 1144, the number of delegates needed to become the party's choice to
run against President Obama in November.
Just 12 delegates were at stake
in Wyoming and Romney won at least six, his campaign said.
Romney
also won a number of delegates in weekend island contests, including
the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.
The Romney campaign says it won a total of 38 delegates on Saturday.
Republican Rick Santorum won 33 delegates in the Kansas caucuses, and the Associated Press reports he won a total of 36 Saturday, by picking up three in Wyoming.
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WASHINGTON (WKOW) – Rick Santorum won the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday.
Newt Gingrich canceled a trip to Kansas last week so he could concentrate on Tuesday's upcoming primaries in Alabama and Mississippi.
GOP front-runner Mitt Romney did not campaign in Kansas.
In the other caucuses held on Saturday, Romney was showing strength in Wyoming. So far, Romney has five of the 12 delegates at stake, Santorum has two, Paul has one and one delegate remains uncommitted.
Romney added more pad to his lead in the overall GOP nomination delegate race on Friday night when he won all nine delegates on the island of Guam and an equal number in the Northern Mariana Islands.
