Trump wins in New Hampshire and tightens his control over the Republican Party

Former President of the United States, Donald Trump, Has won the New Hampshire primary by overcoming his only obstacle to controlling the Republican Party: the candidacy of nikki haleyWhich presents itself as a liberal alternative from the right.

By the time the final results are in, Trump has won. Eleven delegates and 54.6% of the votes According to American media estimates, the number of citizens affiliated with the Republican Party is 87%.

Behind Trump is the former US Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haleywhich received 43.6% support (102,500 ballots) and eight representatives,

“Bad Night” for Nikki Haley.

Following the results of the primary in New Hampshire, the former President criticized his opponent, the former Governor of South Carolina, saying that she had “failed miserably” after insisting that she was going to win: “He had a very bad night.”Has appeared.

“It’s a very bad night Nikki ‘Birdbrain’ Haley, but not as bad as last week in Iowa, where he finished third. The next week, at the Nevada caucuses, he didn’t want to play with his bad polls: He gets zero and I get all (delegates). In South Carolina, I have a 30 to 50 point lead,” he said, referring to the confusing situation in Nevada, where primaries and caucuses are held, but Haley does not participate in the latter.

SnowThe state, the first on the West Coast to elect a candidate, will hold its primary on Feb. 6 and, just two days later, Republicans will host a caucus, where delegates will actually be awarded. Haley and Trump aren’t even competing against each other there: She’s running in the primaries, while he’s running in the caucuses.

Despite failure, Haley will not leave the presidential race

For her part, Haley has declared that, despite her failure in this state, she will not leave the race for the presidential nomination for the Republican Party because “this race is not over yet, with dozens of states left to go” and Next primaries are happening South Carolina (February 3), his home state, where he hopes to score his first win.

“At some point during the campaign, we were 14 candidates and we were at two percent (in voting intention) in the polls. Well, I am a warrior, Now we are the only ones facing Donald Trump“, he stressed before noting that his opponent’s “nomination” is a “victory” for the US President, Joe Biden, and the eventual nominee of the Democratic Party.

However, he congratulated Trump at the beginning of his statements. He has blamed them for Republican defeats in the 2018 and 2022 midterms.As well as the 2020 presidential election. Thus, he has acknowledged that his opponent is “the only Republican in the country that Biden can beat.”

The former United States leader comes on the strength of his victory in last week’s Iowa caucuses, where he won more than 50 percent of the vote against four other candidates who were far behind him. This is the first time that the same candidate has won both the Republican races in Iowa and New Hampshire, US television network CNN reported.

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 departure after receiving less than 8 percent and 1 percent of the vote, respectively.

Calendar to know the definite candidate of Republican Party

The calendar for the Republican Party nomination includes Primary with traditional voting with ballot boxesBut caucus alsoIn which citizens affiliated with a certain party debate and choose their favorite, in some cases by a show of hands and without the need for a ballot.

In any case, The election is not directWhether through primaries or caucuses, what citizens are deciding is the composition of the delegation of said state to the national conventions, where the person representing the formation in the general elections will be formally announced – this year they Will happen on 5th November–.

The Republican Party will celebrate The convention will take place in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) between July 15 and 18, while the Democrats’ meeting will take place in Chicago (Illinois) between August 19 and 22.

However in new hampshire primary With only 22 delegates distributed among the 2,429 who will attend the Republican National Convention in July, where the presidential nominee will be established, the race was a crucial test for Haley’s convening power.

Haley has only 25 percent support

The former diplomat, who served in the Trump administration until 2018, was expected to achieve a strong result in the state, where independents and liberals make up more than half of the electorate.

And although he received more votes than expected, his proposal failed to take hold among Republican voters, among whom he received votes only 25% supportAccording to an exit poll published by CNN.

Biden, the “real” candidate of the Democrats

chairman, Joe Biden, also won his party’s primaries in New Hampshire this Wednesday, even though he did not officially attend them. He needed barely 1% of the votes to count for networks like NBC News and Fox to declare him the winner.

After learning of Trump’s victory, the Biden campaign released a statement saying that the former president is now “practically confident” about the candidacy: “He has completed his takeover of the Republican Party.”he pointed.

The next step in the Republican primary process It will be in Nevada on February 8 and Haley’s home state of South Carolina on the 24th of that month, where she hopes to build on the momentum.

In the Iowa caucuses on Monday last week, Trump came in first with 51% of the vote, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (21.2%), who later withdrew his name. Haley got 19.1% and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who has left the fight, got 7.7%.