Former President of the United States, Donald Trump, won the New Hampshire primary by overcoming his only obstacle to control of the Republican Party: the candidacy of Nikki Haleywhich presents itself as a moderate alternative from the right.
By the time the final results come in, Trump has won eleven delegates and 54.6% of the votes According to US media forecasts, the number of citizens affiliated with the Republican Party corresponds to 87% of the vote.
The former US ambassador to the United Nations stands behind Trump Nikki Haleywhich received 43.6% of support (102,500 ballots) and eight delegates.
“Bad night” for Nikki Haley
Following the results of the New Hampshire primary, the former president criticized his rival, the former governor of South Carolina, declaring that she had “failed miserably” after emphasizing that she would win: “He had a very bad night”has manifested itself.
“A very bad night for Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley, but not as bad as last week in Iowa, where he finished a distant third (place). Next week, at the Nevada caucus, he didn't want to play with his bad polls: He gets zero and I get all (the delegates). “In South Carolina, I have a 30- to 50-point lead,” he said, pointing to the confusing situation in Nevada, which has primaries and caucuses but Haley is not participating.
Snowfall, the first West Coast state to elect the candidate, will hold its primary on February 6, and just two days later Republicans will hold a caucus where delegates will actually be awarded. Haley and Trump aren't even competing against each other there: She's running in the primary while he's running in the caucus.
Despite the failure, Haley will not give up the presidential race
For her part, Haley has stated that despite her failure in that state, she will not give up the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination because “this race is far from over, there are still dozens of states to choose from” and the next primary is taking place South Carolina (February 3), his home state, where he is hoping for a first victory.
“At some point in the election campaign we had 14 candidates and in the polls we were at two percent (voting intention). Well, I'm a fighter, Now it's just us facing Donald Trump“, he stressed, before reflecting that “a nomination” of his rival would be “a victory” for the American President Joe Biden and future candidate of the Democratic Party.
Although he congratulated Trump at the beginning of his statements, He blamed him for Republican defeats in the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections.and the 2020 presidential election. Therefore, he assumed that his opponent is “the only Republican in the country that Biden can defeat.”
The former leader of the United States comes stronger after his victory last week in the Iowa caucuses, where he won more than 50 percent of the vote against four other candidates who were far behind him. It is the first time that the same candidate has won both Republican races in Iowa and New Hampshire, reports the American television station CNN.
Since then, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, dropped out of the race for the Republican Party nomination and showed his support for Trump. Republicans Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson also announced their resignations after receiving less than 8 and 1 percent of the vote, respectively.
The calendar to know the final candidate of the Republican Party
The calendar for the nomination of the Republican Party candidate includes Primary elections with traditional voting with ballot boxesBut also meetingsin which citizens debate a particular party and vote for their favorites, sometimes by a show of hands and without the need for a vote.
In any case, The choice is not directWhether in primaries or caucuses, what citizens decide is the composition of that state's delegation to the national conventions, where the proclamation of the person who will represent the formation in the general elections is made official – this year it will be the case will take place on November 5th.
The Republican Party will celebrate theirs The Democratic National Convention will be held July 15-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while the Democrats will meet in Chicago, Illinois, August 19-22.
Although in the New Hampshire Elementary School Only 22 delegates are distributed out of the 2,429 delegates who will attend the Republican National Convention in July, where the presidential nominee will be determined. The race was an important test of Haley's draft power.
Haley only has 25% support
The former diplomat, who worked in the Trump administration until 2018, was hoping for a strong result in the state where independent and moderate voters make up more than half of the electorate.
And although he received more votes than expected, his proposal failed to gain traction with Republican voters where he won only 25% supportaccording to an exit poll published by CNN.
Biden, the “de facto” candidate of the Democrats
President, Joe Biden, also won his party's primaries in New Hampshire this Wednesday, although he did not officially take part in them. He barely needed 1% of the vote to be declared the winner by networks like NBC News and Fox.
After learning of Trump's victory, the Biden campaign issued a statement declaring that the former president's candidacy was now “virtually certain”: “He has completed his takeover of the Republican Party.”he showed.
The next stop in the Republican primary process On February 8th it will be Nevada and on the 24th of the month it will be South Carolina, Haley's home state, where she wants to gain momentum.
In the Iowa caucuses on Monday last week, Trump came first with 51% of the vote, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (21.2%), who has since retired. Haley got 19.1% and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who also gave up the fight, got 7.7%.