
Trump wins New Hampshire primary and closes in on presidential nomination
The former Republican president has defeated Nikki Haley, but the ex U.N. ambassador is not throwing in the towel: ‘This race is far from over’

The former Republican president has defeated Nikki Haley, but the ex U.N. ambassador is not throwing in the towel: ‘This race is far from over’

Turnout and who receives Ron DeSantis’ votes now that he has dropped out of the race will decide the primary between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley

The now-defunct campaign of the Florida governor — who once looked like the only Republican capable of defeating Trump — failed due to his lack of charisma and a strategy full of miscalculations
The former president is well ahead in the polls in New Hampshire, even though it’s the state where Nikki Haley has the best chances of winning

The Republican candidate has questioned the former president’s mental fitness, but after DeSantis’ withdrawal, there is a feeling that his nomination is a foregone conclusion

The Florida governor failed to beat the former president in Iowa, and his prospects in New Hampshire were dismal. Now he has endorsed the real estate magnate

The former president enters the contest emboldened by his record-setting performance in last week’s Iowa caucuses. But New Hampshire has a more moderate political tradition

The move is a blow to Scott’s fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley, who is banking on a strong showing in New Hampshire to keep her presidential hopes alive
The caucuses in Iowa have confirmed the real estate magnate’s enormous power and the narrowing opportunities to prevent his nomination

The likelihood of Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley pulling off a surprise win has fallen after the former president defeated them by more than 30 points

DeSantis, who ultimately ended up beating her for second place in Iowa, is the only candidate committed to Thursday’s event

The results are just the first in what will be a months-long effort for the former president to secure the nomination a third consecutive time. But they send an unmistakable message to the GOP that it is his to lose

Candidates are making a final push to mobilize their supporters amid fears of a low turnout at the start of the primaries due to the winter storm battering the state

Each of the more than half-dozen Iowans who were interviewed in line were adamant about their plans to support Trump and had considered no other candidate

Republicans and Democrats have been introducing changes to their primary process, with the two parties following different rules and calendars

The excitement of the first round of the Republican primaries, which is being held on Monday despite a record-breaking storm, is focused on the duel between Trump’s best positioned rivals

The former president wants to knock out his rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley before either can be perceived as a real alternative

Some fear the controversy will hurt the party’s ambitions to make inroads with nonwhite voters who may be repelled by minimizing the historical atrocity of slavery

Elderly Iowans, the backbone of the caucus, are wondering how they will make it to their sites Monday. Political types are mentally downgrading their expected turnout and wondering who a smaller, harder-core electorate will favor

The former president skipped the last Republican debate before the Iowa caucus and instead attended a comfortable town hall event aired on Fox News

He made the announcement Wednesday night at a town hall in New Hampshire just hours before the fifth debate of the 2024 election cycle kicked off without him

The weather has already affected campaigning for Iowa’s Jan. 15 precinct caucuses, where the snow is expected to be followed by frigid temperatures

The commanding front-runner in the race will skip the debate hosted by CNN and instead appear on Fox News

A majority of about 200 members approved the ouster in a voice vote during a closed-door meeting that chairman Christian Ziegler did not attend

The speech kicking off Florida’s annual legislative session comes exactly a week before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses

Florida Gov. DeSantis portrays Haley, a former South Carolina governor who was Trump’s U.N. ambassador, as a puppet of wealthy donors and someone who’s flip-flopped on key issues

Democratic President Joe Biden has backed such programs as a way to lower prices, signing an executive order in 2021 that directed the FDA to work with states on imports