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Donald Trump beats Nikki Haley in New Hampshire
Donald Trump and Joe Biden have won their respective primaries in New Hampshire.
The former president attacked his last remaining challenger Nikki Haley for staying in the race even as he’s pulling ahead in the delegate count.
Ms Haley, Mr Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nations, said in her speech on Tuesday night that the race is “far from over”.
“There are dozens of states left to go… and the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina,” she told the crowd in the state capitol of Concord.
A frustrated Mr Trump appeared to threaten the former state governor, saying that she will soon be under investigation for “stuff she doesn’t want to talk about”.
With 95 per cent of the vote counted on Wednesday, Mr Trump was leading his opponent in the Granite State by 54.4 per cent to 43.3 per cent, roughly in line with the 11 percentage point gap estimated by the final opinion polls before the primary.
Mr Biden did not appear on Democratic ballot papers following a feud with organisers but a write-in campaign ensured his victory in a largely symbolic Democratic primary in the same state.
In the days after the attack on the US Capitol, former president Donald Trump seemed on the verge of becoming a politician in exile.
Many Republicans directly blamed him, including Kevin McCarthy, who said “the president bears responsibility” for the attack. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell excoriated Mr Trump by saying that “people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president”.
Mr Trump’s decision to spread the lie that Democrats stole the election from him to whip his supporters into such a frenzy that they breached the US Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election offered Republicans — particularly ones who never particularly liked Mr Trump — the opportunity to get off the wagon. It gave them the chance to remove the virus of Trumpism, tell their voters it would not be allowed in the party, and keep the focus on weakening Joe Biden.
But the ex-president’s dominant win in the New Hampshire primary on 23 January, a week after a decisive win in Iowa, makes crystal clear what has been obvious all along – Donald Trump is going to be the 2024 Republican nominee.
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Republicans’ decision to acquit Donald Trump created the runway for his flight toward the Republican nomination in New Hampshire tonight, writes Eric Garcia
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley says that the party’s primary race is “far from over” despite another defeat to Donald Trump.
The former South Carolina governor remained upbeat at her primary night rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday, with predictions that she will pick up more delegates than expected from the Granite State.
“This race is far from over,” Ms Haley told the crowd in Concord, New Hampshire. “There are dozens of states left to go … and the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina.”
Graeme Massie reports:
The former South Carolina governor remained upbeat at her primary night rally despite defeat
Shortly after Donald Trump won in New Hampshire, Senator John Cornyn announced his support for him. Why does that matter? Because Cornyn is far from a Trumpist. In fact, the square-jawed Republican from Texas negotiated a gun bill alongside Democratic Senator Chris Murphy and then-Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema that Trump vehemently opposed. Cornyn’s support today shows that all Republicans — from the furthest right to the most moderate — are now falling into line behind the former president.
In fact, Trump continues to have Republican leaders get behind him save for one major voice: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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We shouldn’t feel sorry for him
Former president Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday night, taking another step towards securing his party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
The Associated Press called shortly after polls closed in the state. With less than 20 per cent of results in by 8pm, Mr Trump had an insurmountable lead against his opponent Nikki Haley, with 54 per cent of the vote.
The former president, who is currently the 2024 Republican frontrunner, was expected to perform well in the Granite State given his stronghold over the majority of the Republican Party. However, unlike his performance in Iowa last week, Mr Trump’s margin of victory on Tuesday was much smaller.
With a larger-than-expected independent voter turnout, Ms Haley performed well in more liberal-leaning counties like Dover, Concord and Keene – early data indicated.
Although Ms Haley lost the primary, her campaign said they would continue campaigning to the next primary in her home state of South Carolina.
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“Haley isn’t intimidated by Trump, which is a qualification for high office in itself, because we know the punishment that he and his devout followers in his undeniably substantial base of support can mete out to anyone who gets in Trump’s way,” writes Sean O’Grady.
“They’ll even invade the Capitol for him and try to overthrow the government, so chucking some abuse at Haley’s no big deal. They do, indeed, ‘fight like hell’ when prompted to.
“Yet Haley is unflinching, and rightly pledges to carry on and on and on. It’s obviously true that Trump is the favourite for the nomination, and it could all be over in a couple of weeks. It’s not immediately obvious that Haley has the funds to sustain a campaign, even if she’s obviously got the spirit to do so. She might not do so well even in her own sweet home state of South Carolina; but she did rather better than expected in New Hampshire, even if she still lost.
“The sourness of Trump’s victory speech suggests that she has more momentum than he would like, and he resents it – he’s never been great at disguising his emotions or his all-too-brittle ego. So she is still in the race, and there are a couple of very good reasons why she has to stay in for as long as she can.”
The former president seems on course to win the Republican Party’s nomination once again, writes Sean O’Grady. But will Haley emerge as a dark horse – and help the US avert disaster?

Rachel Scott of ABC News reports that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn is holding off on new investments in the Nikki Haley campaign after her loss in New Hampshire.
“I would be happy to raise more funds for Governor Haley if someone can show me a path for her to win the primary,” an advisor told Scott.
President Joe Biden won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, despite his name not appearing on the state’s presidential primary ballot.
The Associated Press called the race for Mr Biden shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night, as a majority of voters wrote in the president’s name.
Mr Biden’s campaign purposefully did not file the president’s name for the ballot within the deadline in an act of solidarity with the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) decision to make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary.
Ariana Baio reports:
A majority of voters in New Hampshire wrote-in Biden’s name on ballots where he did not appear officially
“I came to have fun. It’s Maga time, baby, it’s 2024.”
Here’s Gustaf Kilander with more on the former congressman’s surprise cameo in New Hampshire last night.
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The winner of the Republican primaries is Donald Trump’s bogus conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from him, with a vast majority of his supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire agreeing, falsely, that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected.
Eighty-six per cent of New Hampshire primary voters who supported Mr Trump believe that the current president is an illegitimate one, according to exit polls.
In Iowa, where caucusgoers were asked whether they believed Mr Biden was legitimately elected to the presidency, more than two-thirds said no. That includes 69 per cent of Iowa caucus-goers who supported Mr Trump. Only 11 per cent of his supporters in Iowa and 13 per cent of supporters in New Hampshire believe the sitting president was legitimately elected.
Alex Woodward reports:
A vast majority of his voters falsely believe Biden wasn’t legitimately elected, priming them to reject his potential loss in November

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flanked by Senator Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy at a primary election night party in Nashua, New Hampshire, on 23 January 2024
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