After winning the Iowa caucus primaries, former US President Trump won another state and is approaching the White House step by step. According to calculations by the Associated Press and other mainstream US media on January 23, local time, Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary in the 2024 US presidential election held that day.
After Florida Governor DeSantis announced his withdrawal from the election, Trump defeated Haley, the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, in a one-on-one duel with an "overwhelming advantage." While further consolidating his dominance within the party, Trump may face off against the current Democratic President Biden again in November this year.
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The Associated Press reported that it declared Trump the winner after analyzing the preliminary voting results. The report described Trump as having an "insurmountable advantage" over Haley.
The Associated Press said that preliminary vote counting results in more than 25 towns in New Hampshire showed that Trump was far ahead as of 8 o'clock that night, including in two of the state's three most populous cities - Manchester and Concord.
The AP VoteCast, a system used by the Associated Press to investigate election polling data, shows that Trump leads Haley by a wide margin in all areas of New Hampshire. Although the majority of local independent voters support Haley, this is not enough to shake Trump's nearly 50-point lead among local registered Republicans. In addition, New Hampshire stipulates that voters who are registered with a political party can only vote in the primary election of their own party.
After 30% of the votes were counted that night, the Associated Press showed that Trump and Haley received 53.6% and 45.4% of the votes respectively; the New York Times showed that Trump and Haley received 53.5% and 45.5% of the votes respectively; among the 16% of votes tracked by Edison Research, Trump also led Haley with 53.2% and 45.3%.
Screenshot of AP vote count results
Screenshot of the vote count from The New York Times
Reuters pointed out that although Haley had hoped to overthrow Trump in New Hampshire so that the Republican Party would break away from Trump's "iron-fist control", what happened was that contrary to expectations, Trump became the first Republican to win consecutively in Iowa and New Hampshire since 1976.
The report believes that although the final vote situation is still uncertain, today's results may increase the calls of some Republicans to ask Haley to withdraw from the race.
"He won, and I want to admit that." On the evening of January 23, Haley appeared at his election campaign. While thanking New Hampshire, he also congratulated Trump on his victory. However, Haley emphasized that the Republican primary election is "far from over." His campaign team also stated in a statement that Haley vowed to advance the campaign to the upcoming "Super Tuesday" (Super Tuesday, March 5) in early March, when Republicans in 16 states and regions will vote in the primary election simultaneously.
The next primary election is scheduled to be held on February 24 in South Carolina, where Haley was born and she also served as the governor of South Carolina.
Previously, on January 15, local time, the 2024 U.S. presidential election kicked off in Iowa, and the Republican Party’s first intra-party primaries began. The vote counting results show that Trump won the election with an absolute advantage, laying a good start for the 2024 general election. Among the other two candidates, DeSantis narrowly defeated Haley and finished second.
On the evening of January 21, local time, DeSantis announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election and stated that he would support former US President Trump. DeSantis has previously been called "the biggest threat to Trump's party." The Associated Press and CNN believe that his withdrawal will benefit Trump and make Haley the only Republican presidential candidate to compete with Trump.
On the other hand, the Associated Press reported that current President Biden won the New Hampshire Democratic primary as a write-incandidate. Previously, the Democratic Party moved the first primary election to the more diverse state of South Carolina (February 3), hoping to use local black voters to fire the first shot of the 2024 declaration of war. However, the Democrats in New Hampshire refused to change the date of the primary election. This resulted in Biden's name not being included on the ballot, but voters could still vote for him by writing Biden's name on the ballot.