Trump is aiming for a victory on Tuesday to safe his front-runner standing because the Republican candidate for presidential elections later this yr.
Donald Trump is aiming for a commanding victory in New Hampshire’s Republican major on Tuesday.
Having bagged victory in Iowa, he needs to safe a sweep of the second of two races that may make a November rematch with President Joe Biden look extra doubtless than ever.
The most important query is whether or not Trump’s final main rival, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, will have the ability to eat into his margin — or pull off an upset outright.
Haley has devoted important time and monetary assets to New Hampshire, hoping to attraction to its famously independent-minded citizens.
Within the first outcomes launched early Tuesday, all six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch solid their ballots for Haley over Trump. The resort city is the one one in New Hampshire this yr that opted to vote at midnight.
Trump’s allies are already pressuring Haley to depart the race and people calls will intensify if he wins New Hampshire simply.
Have been she to drop out, that may successfully determine the GOP major on its second cease, effectively earlier than the overwhelming majority of Republican voters throughout the nation have been in a position to vote.
Haley insists she’s within the race for the long term, telling supporters at a VFW corridor in Franklin on Monday that “America doesn’t do coronations.”
“That is about, do you might have extra of the identical, or would you like somebody who’s going to take us ahead with new options,” Haley instructed reporters.
She additionally mentioned: “We will both do the entire thing that we’ve at all times finished and dwell in that chaos world that we’ve had, or we are able to go ahead with no drama, no vendettas and a few outcomes for the American individuals.”
“It is a two-person race,” Haley added.
Caucuses are a collection of votes the place US political events choose delegates who will later characterize the occasion’s alternative for presidential nominee.
The outcomes contribute to the collection of delegates who will in the end attend the occasion’s nationwide conference to formally nominate a candidate for the presidency.