Elections in New Hampshire: Donald Trump wins and paves the way for a return to the White House

The former president Donald Trump reached this Tuesday closing at key victory in the state of New Hampshirea victory that will relaunch him definitely towards the Republican nominationwhile the last remaining party rival in the race, former governor Nikki Haley, was unable to find oxygen to continue in the race for the White House and then face in November to Joe Biden.

Before Trump’s victory, the party’s last remaining rival in the race, former Governor Haley, had gotten one better choice than estimated by surveys and he may still try to stay in the running for the White House. But your path will not be easy and now There is speculation that it could lower its demand.

Early results indicated that Trump obtained 52% of the votes against 46% of the former ruler of South Carolina and former ambassador to the United Nations. Even though he got more votes than polls predicted, he may now reconsider whether he is still in the running or not.

The AP news agency declared Trump the winner as soon as voting concluded.

An average of surveys the precedents indicated between 15 and 18 points in favor of the tycoonalthough Haley fought hard at the last moment to overcome the result.

For anti-Trump Republicans, New Hampshire represented perhaps the last battle who could act against the nomination of the controversial former president and prevent him from running for the White House again. A CNN exit poll revealed that only 32% said they were part of the Trumpist MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement and 32% said they were not. 31% declared themselves moderate and 6% liberal, against

In the first internal vote on Monday last week, the Iowa caucus or assembly, the tycoon won by more than 30 points. After Iowa two candidates dropped out of the race: business man Vivek Ramaswamy and the governor of Florida Ron De Santis. There were only two left in the race.

In this context, another decisive victory for Trump in New Hampshire could secure his nomination and force his last remaining rival to reconsider his campaign and throw in the towel. He wanted to surprise and continue. The result doesn’t seem to have helped her.

Trump tried to close out his campaign with his own former rivals became allies. Sen. Tim Scott, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgumun and Ramaswamy joined the stage, demonstrating how the field has quickly consolidated behind him.

All the darts that had been thrown were left behind. Scott, for example, who had questioned Trump’s suitability, was surprised by singing the traditional song “Four More Years” at the event, calling for the tycoon’s return to the White House.

“Get out of bed and go vote” the former president called. “We have to go because we have to win by a wide margin,” she added. Trump needs to end internal affairs as soon as possible to focus on his trials – he is accused of 91 charges in several cases – including one on allegations of tampering with the 2020 election, to save money and focus on his main rival , the Democrat. Biden.

Haley has resisted – at least for now – pressure to step down and align with Trump, to simplify the Republican nomination. “In the United States we have elections, not coronations,” he proclaimed, appealing to the voters’ spirit of independence against “political elites.”

52 years old, Haley has shown herself in recent acts as protagonist of a generational change to the White House, for which Trump, 77, and Biden, 81, are also competing. She also said that the tycoon “showed cognitive decline” because he had confused her with Nancy Pelosi.

Likewise Haley always avoided a harsh confrontation with Trump. He said he hopes to get “a good result” in New Hampshire that will keep her in the race and is betting that moderates will turn out to vote in droves and that Trump-hating independents will join in, because they’re allowed to. She was thrilled with the result in small Dixeville Notch County, which voted early in the morning, and its residents had cast 6 votes for her and zero for Trump.

New Hampshire went to Haley your last chance before arriving at the next primary appointment in his home state, South Carolina, in a month until “Super Tuesday” in March. But the poll numbers for now give him an defeated even in his own land. The push she needed was great.

The primary was also held in New Hampshire Democrats, but without ballots with Biden’s name due to disagreements with the local party branch. Even though the president has his party’s nomination assured, in recent days presidential activists have asked that Biden’s name be handwritten on the ballots, because it would be a shame if he lost in that state against unknown candidates such as Representative Dean Phillips and the writer Marianne Williamson.

Everything indicates that the Biden-Trump duel will arise again in the presidential elections on November 5. There is still a long way to go but, for now, the polls give them parity.