Trump’s victory moves him even closer to clinching the party’s nomination. | Getty Trump wins Oregon Republican primary

Donald Trump won Oregon's Republican primary Tuesday night, another victory for the presumptive nominee as he marches toward the convention unopposed.

Trump had 64 percent of the vote when the Associated Press called the race for him on Tuesday.


Trump has been without a real rival in the race since Ted Cruz and John Kasich quit earlier this month. Those former candidates were also on the ballot, and received more than 20,000 votes each.

The primary may have been only a formality, but Trump competed in the state anyway. He visited the liberal enclave of Eugene earlier this month, where he promised to bring timber jobs back to the region and trotted out new lines of criticism against Hillary Clinton.

"She is totally controlled by Wall Street," he said at the Eugene rally, appearing to crib from Sanders as he also previewed a line of argument against Clinton.

Trump's state director, Jacob Daniels, took to Twitter to urge Oregonians to turn out and make calls on Trump’s behalf — even though there was effectively no contest.

The Oregon primaries were closed contests, requiring voters to register with a political party to participate. Partisan registration spiked this year, with around 111,000 new people joining a party in order to vote. Around 85,000 of those new registrants were Democrats, according to the AP.

This year, around 2.3 million voters are registered to vote in the primary — and more than 1 million votes were expected, the Oregonian reported. In 2012, there were just more than 2 million registered voters, and only about 787,000 people voted, according to data from the Oregon secretary of state's office.