Trump wins the Missouri caucuses. Republicans in Michigan and Idaho are weighing in on the 2024 race

Donald Trump won Missouri's Republican caucuses, one of three events Saturday that will award delegates for the GOP presidential nomination.

The former president, who is especially strong in caucuses, added to his delegate lead with that victory and made gains at a party convention in Michigan. Idaho was scheduled to hold its caucuses later Saturday. His last major rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, is still seeking her first election-season win.

There were no Democratic contests on Saturday.

The next event on the Republican calendar is Sunday in the District of Columbia. Two days later is Super Tuesday, when 16 states and American Samoa will hold primaries on what will be the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election. Trump is on track to lock up the nomination days later.

Michigan Republicans at their convention in Grand Rapids began allocating 39 of the state's 55 GOP presidential delegates. Trump won 33, with six yet to be allocated.

But a significant portion of the party's grassroots force was skipping the gathering because of the lingering effects of a monthslong dispute over the party's leadership.

Trump handily won Michigan's primary this past Tuesday with 68% of the vote compared with Haley's 27%.

Michigan Republicans were forced to split their delegate allocation into two parts after Democrats, who control the state government, moved Michigan into the early primary states, violating the national Republican Party's rules.

Voters lined up outside a church in Columbia, home to the University of Missouri, before the doors opened for the caucuses.

"I don't know what my role here will be, besides standing in a corner for Trump," Columbia resident Carmen Christal said, adding that she's "just