New Hampshire primary results: Nikki Haley refuses to drop out after Donald Trump wins

Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips misplaced out within the Democratic race in New Hampshire yesterday following the success of the write-in marketing campaign in favour of Joe Biden.

Sounding slightly bitter, he now points this warning concerning the undesirable rematch America seems to be hurtling in direction of in November.

One of many candidate’s higher arguments in her speech final evening was that the front-runner is in truth a serial election loser whom the Democrats suppose Biden can beat.

Her employees have been on usually aggressive type of their messaging this morning too, hitting again at Trump’s assaults in a single day.

Kelly Rissman has this on their retorts to the previous president.

President Joe Biden gained the New Hampshire Democratic main, regardless of his identify not showing on the state’s presidential main poll.

The Related Press known as the race for Biden shortly after polls closed on Tuesday evening, as a majority of voters wrote within the president’s identify.

The president’s marketing campaign purposefully didn’t file the president’s identify for the poll throughout the deadline in an act of solidarity with the Democratic Nationwide Conference’s (DNC) choice to make South Carolina the primary state to carry a main.

New Hampshire, which hosts the primary within the nation main per state legislation, refused to budge on transferring their main date, creating pressure with the DNC.

The DNC mentioned those that ran in Tuesday’s main wouldn’t be awarded delegates, prompting Biden’s marketing campaign to conform.

However in an uncommon transfer, voters nonetheless selected to put in writing in Biden’s identify fairly than vote for the 2 names who did seem on the poll, Minnesota consultant Dean Phillips and self-help writer Marianne Williamson.

The president’s win is more likely to reassure Democrats that the president nonetheless holds assist from a majority of voters within the occasion.

Ariana Baio has this report.

In case you overslept, right here’s your reminder that former US president Donald Trump gained the New Hampshire Republican main on Tuesday evening, taking one other step in direction of securing his occasion’s nomination for the 2024 presidential election.

The Related Press known as shortly after polls closed within the state. With lower than 20 per cent of ends in by 8pm, Trump had already secured an insurmountable lead over his opponent Nikki Haley, with greater than 54 per cent of the vote.

The previous president, who’s at the moment the 2024 Republican front-runner, was anticipated to carry out nicely within the Granite State given his stronghold over the vast majority of the Republican Get together. Nonetheless, in contrast to his efficiency in Iowa final week, Trump’s margin of victory on Tuesday was a lot smaller.

With a larger-than-expected impartial voter turnout, Haley carried out nicely in additional liberal-leaning counties like Dover, Harmony and Keene – early knowledge indicated.

Though she misplaced the first, her marketing campaign mentioned they might proceed campaigning to the subsequent main in her dwelling state of South Carolina.

Right here’s Ariana Baio with a full report.

Within the days after the assault on the US Capitol, former president Donald Trump appeared on the verge of turning into a politician in exile.

Many Republicans immediately blamed him, together with Kevin McCarthy, who mentioned “the president bears duty” for the assault.

Senate minority chief Mitch McConnell excoriated Trump by saying that “individuals who stormed this constructing believed they have been performing on the desires and directions of their president”.

However an terrible lot has modified since then.

Right here’s Eric Garcia on Trump’s gorgeous revival.

Clearly delighted to chalk up one other victory, Donald Trump has spent the early hours of the morning flooding his social community with clips from Fox Information glorifying his New Hampshire triumph and assuring their viewers the Republican presidential nomination is all however his.

Nonetheless, he has additionally been expressing annoyance that Nikki Haley has refused to fold and announce the suspension of her marketing campaign.

He additionally attacked her in his tackle in Nashua final evening, calling her an “imposter” and declaring: “She’s doing a speech like she gained. She didn’t win, she misplaced… Let’s not have any individual take a victory when she had a really unhealthy evening.”

One other remark: he seems to have pivotted to attacking her intelligence, calling her “Birdbrain” fairly than the fairly extra racist “Nimbra” (see additionally SNL’s “Ron DeStupid” from final weekend’s opening monologue).

Supporters, together with his son Eric Trump, have in the meantime been circulating this gloating tweet from favorite conservative poster Catturd.

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley says that the occasion’s main race is “removed from over” regardless of one other defeat to Donald Trump.

The previous South Carolina governor remained upbeat at her main evening rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday, with predictions that she’s going to choose up extra delegates than anticipated from the Granite State.

“This race is way from over,” Haley advised the gang in Harmony, New Hampshire. “There are dozens of states left to go… and the subsequent one is my candy state of South Carolina.”

With 91 per cent of the vote counted on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump was main Nikki Haley within the Granite State by 54.6 per cent to 43.1 per cent, or his 163,396 votes to her 129,104.

That might be roughly in keeping with the 11 proportion level hole estimated by the ultimate opinion polls earlier than the first, which had Trump on 50 per cent to Haley’s 39 per cent.

Regardless of all different candidates suspending their campaigns earlier than Tuesday’s vote in New Hampshire, 1000’s of individuals nonetheless opted for somebody aside from Trump or Haley, in accordance with the newest Related Press outcomes.

High of the record is Ron DeSantis, who dropped out of the race on Sunday evening, with 2,041 votes. Chris Christie, the fiercest Trump critic among the many early subject, acquired 1,263 votes regardless of dropping out two weeks in the past.

And Vivek Ramaswamy, who appeared on stage at Trump’s victory occasion final evening, managed 686 votes in his personal proper.