Trump wins New Hampshire Republican primary

Haley congratulates her rival and refuses to abandon the race, which she warns is "far from over"

Former United States President Donald Trump has won the Republican primary in the state of New Hampshire with 54.4 percent of the votes of citizens linked to the Republican Party, according to US media projections corresponding to 71 percent of the vote.

Thus, Trump has won twelve delegates (and 128,000 votes), while behind him is the former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who has won 43.6 percent of the support (102,500 ballots) and with nine delegates. There is one Republican delegate missing to be assigned in this state.

After the results of the primaries in New Hampshire, the former president has criticized his rival, the former governor of South Carolina, stating that she has "failed miserably" after remarking that she was going to win: "She had a very bad night," he said. manifested.

"A very bad night for Nikki 'Birdbrain' Haley, but not as bad as last week, in Iowa, where she came in a distant third (place). Next week, in the Nevada caucuses, she didn't want to play around with her bad polls: he gets zero and I receive all (the delegates). In South Carolina, I have a lead of 30 to 50 points," he said, referring to the confusing situation in Nevada, where there are primaries and caucuses, but Haley does not participate in these last.

Nevada, the first state on the West Coast to elect a 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.

For her part, Haley has declared that, despite her failure in this state, she will not abandon the race for presidential candidate for the Republican Party because "this race is far from over, there are dozens of states left to go" and the next primaries are taking place in South Carolina (February 3), his home state, where he hopes to obtain a first victory.

"At some point during the campaign, we were 14 candidates and we were at two percent in (voting intention in) the polls. Well, I'm a fighter, now it's just us against Donald Trump," she stressed, before considering that "A nomination" of his rival is "a victory" for the American president, Joe Biden, and eventual candidate for the Democratic Party.

Although he congratulated Trump at the beginning of his statements, he blamed him for the Republicans' defeats in the 2018 and 2022 midterms, as well as the 2020 presidential elections. Thus, he considered that his opponent is "the only Republican of the country Biden can defeat.

The former leader of the United States arrives reinforced after winning last week in the Iowa caucuses, where he won more than 50 percent of the votes 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 network CNN.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has since dropped out of the race for the GOP 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.

The calendar for the nomination of the Republican Party candidate includes primaries with traditional ballot box voting, but also caucuses, in which citizens linked to a certain party debate and choose their favorites, in some cases by show of hands and without the need for ballots.

In any case, the election is not direct, whether through primaries or caucuses, what citizens are deciding is the composition of the delegation of said state in the national conventions, where the proclamation of the person who will represent will be formally made. to training in the general elections - this year they will take place on November 5 -.

The Republican Party will hold its convention between July 15 and 18 in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), while the Democrats will meet from August 19 to 22 in Chicago (Illinois).