Trump attempts to dominate the New Hampshire GOP primary by opposing Nikki Haley, his last significant opponent

With a clean sweep in the first two Republican primary contests, Donald Trump is targeting a resounding victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday that would increase the likelihood of a rematch with President Joe Biden in November.

The most significant uncertainty is whether Trump’s last significant opponent, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, will be able to narrow the gap between them or pull off an unexpected victory. Haley has invested a lot of time and money in New Hampshire in an attempt to win over the state’s renowned independent-minded voters.

The six registered voters in the little town of Dixville Notch chose Haley over Trump in the first results that were made public early on Tuesday. This year, only the resort town in New Hampshire chose to cast ballots at midnight.

In 2016, Trump emerged victorious in the Republican primary in New Hampshire, but during the previous year’s midterm elections, a few of his friends suffered significant setbacks. In addition, Haley has a rival who has strong ties to the Republican base and has focused on winning the state with such decisiveness that it would put an end to the competitive round of the Republican primary.

In a strong indication of his sustained hold on the party’s most devoted supporters, Trump’s victory would make him the only Republican presidential contender to win open contests in Iowa and New Hampshire since both states started dominating the election calendar in 1976.

Trump’s supporters are already putting pressure on Haley to get out of the race, and if he wins New Hampshire handily, they will step up their efforts. If she were to withdraw, the GOP primary would be decided on its second stop, even before the great majority of Republican voters nationwide have had a chance to cast ballots.

Haley is running on the campaign trail with well-liked Republican governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, who is critical of Trump. She emphasized to her supporters on Monday at a Franklin VFW hall that “America does not do coronations” and that she is in the campaign for the long haul.

Haley told reporters, “This is about whether you want someone who’s going to take us forward with new solutions, or do you have more of the same.” She added, “We can either go forward with no drama, no vendettas, and some results for the American people, or we can do the whole thing that we’ve always done and live in that chaos world that we’ve had.”

She went on, “This is a two-person race.”

Both Haley and Trump hoped to take advantage of recent, well-known withdrawals from the campaign. Haley can find encouragement from some of the followers of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who boycotted Trump throughout his campaign and withdrew just before Iowa’s vote last week. Meanwhile, Trump could be able to draw in conservative supporters of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who withdrew his candidacy for president on Sunday.

Already anticipating his role as the last Republican contender in the race, Trump made an appearance at a pre-primary rally in Laconia with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, one of his previous primary competitors. When asked whether Haley will withdraw from the race after New Hampshire in an interview with Newsmax on Monday, the former president said he would never urge her to do so but quipped, “Maybe she’ll be dropping out Tuesday.”

Wearing a Make America Great Again baseball cap, Scot Stebbins Sr. referred to President Trump as “the greatest president we’ve had since Abraham Lincoln” and said that he “has done nothing but good for our nation.”

Stebbins said that Trump will “get rid of all the corrupt politicians who have been in there too long that are getting paid off” and that he believed the four criminal cases and 91 felony charges against him represented “a witch hunt.”

He is unbuyable, according to Stebbins. “He truly is an American.” He has been for all time.

On Tuesday, Democrats were also having a primary, but this one was not like any that had happened recently.

In favor of new DNC rules, which call for the party’s 2024 primary to start in South Carolina on February 3 rather than Iowa or New Hampshire, is Biden. He maintained that Black voters had to be more involved in selecting the party’s candidate, as they are the most dependable group inside the party and were instrumental in his victory in South Carolina, which brought his 2020 primary campaign back to life after three initial setbacks.

The Democrats in New Hampshire disregarded the revised sequence and went on with their primary as planned, claiming state statutes requiring that their state host the nation’s first primary after Iowa’s caucus.

Democrats in the state may cast their ballots for the president’s two obscure main primary opponents, self-help author Marianne Williamson and Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips, since Biden did not campaign here and will not be on the ballot. Nevertheless, a number of prominent Democrats in New Hampshire supported a write-in candidate whom they believe would easily defeat Biden.

If they are undeclared, some people who would normally support Democrats may also cast ballots in the more contested Republican primary.

Unregistered voter Karen Padgett met Haley on Monday. She said that while she had not planned to vote for Trump in the next election, she was “really annoyed with Joe Biden that he kind of wrote New Hampshire off.”

Regarding Haley’s vows to restructure Washington in ways that Trump had promised but never carried out, Padgett said, “Her statement is everybody’s so old there, they’re so entrenched.” “Let’s bring in a few fresh faces.”

Rather to concentrate on New Hampshire, Biden was in northern Virginia with Vice President Kamala for a pro-choice event, which Democrats believe will help them win statewide in November.

Nevertheless, there’s an increasing feeling that November will be a retaliation for Biden’s attack on Trump. Trump is 77 years old, while Biden is 81, and both men have been attacked by his rivals for being too old to serve in the White House again.

Most Americans, according to public opinion surveys, are against a rematch. 56% of American people said they would be very or very unhappy with Biden as the Democratic candidate, and 58% said the same about Trump as the GOP nominee, according to a December AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey.
Republican Jeff Caira, 66, of Sanbornton, said that although he was unsure about his primary choice, he preferred a contender who would focus on “the issues, rather than address the baggage that the other two candidates seem to have.”

Despite the size of the United States, he expressed his disappointment that “the two front-runners are the best we have to offer.”