2024-01-23 19:30:51
The US Republican Nikki Haley has promised perseverance in the duel with former President Donald Trump for her party’s presidential candidacy. “Everyone is waiting to write my obituary,” the former ambassador to the UN told the TV station CNN in the US state of New Hampshire on Tuesday. But she remained in a field of applicants in which there were initially more than a dozen candidates and only two remained. Trump, however, appeared confident of victory.
The 52-year-old Haley emphasized that she is a fighter and “someone who doesn’t give up.” A newsletter from Haley’s campaign team said on Tuesday that the political elite and the media already wanted to crown Trump and declare the Republican race over. “That’s not how it works,” wrote Haley’s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney. Congressmen and other presidential candidates fell down in droves, but Haley didn’t back down. “We’re not going anywhere.” The primaries had just begun. “After Super Tuesday we will have a very good picture of where this race stands,” Ankney emphasized. “Until then, everyone should take a deep breath.”
Trump appeared confident of victory throughout the day. “The corrupt swamp in Washington has done everything in its power to take your voice away,” he wrote to his followers online. However, New Hampshire will certainly speak with a “loud and clear” voice. For her part, Haley explained in Hampton that the election campaign has always been a marathon race. “He was never a sprinter.” According to her campaign team, she wants to stay in the race at least until Super Tuesday on March 5th. Then elections will take place in 16 of the 50 states. The actual presidential election is on November 5th. According to the statistics website FiveThirtyEight, Trump was last in New Hampshire with 53.9 percent of the vote, ahead of Haley with 36.3 percent. Most polling stations close at 7 p.m. (US East Coast time; 1 a.m. CET), although some close an hour later.
Of the Republican presidential candidates, only Haley and Trump remain. In national polls, Trump has a huge lead over Haley. She is therefore given little chance of ultimately prevailing against Trump. The ex-president once again appeared confident of victory on Tuesday during a surprise appearance at a polling station in New Hampshire, where the second Republican primary was taking place, and assured that he didn’t care how long Haley stayed in the race.
In New Hampshire, Haley’s gap to Trump in polls was significantly smaller than elsewhere. She was hoping for a strong result there. Trump, in turn, called on his supporters in advance to give him a large margin of victory in New Hampshire in order to cement his role as the party’s frontrunner. Several loyal Trump supporters had already declared that the race was over after his clear victory in the first primary election in the state of Iowa. The winner of the Republican primary will almost certainly face incumbent President Joe Biden from the Democrats. In surveys, Biden and Trump are currently virtually tied.
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