Former President Donald Trump is heading to an easy victory in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, according to two polls taken after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the Republican presidential race.
Trump, 77, faces a major GOP rival, former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, who is trailing badly in the latest polls.
The former president has 57% support to 38% for Haley, 52, according to new Suffolk University/NBC10 Boston/Boston Globe polling data from 500 voters polled over the weekend.
Trump had an even bigger lead, with 62% backing Haley’s 35%, in an InsiderAdvantage poll of 850 likely voters conducted Sunday.
The results suggest an early end to a competitive phase of the party’s primaries — with Trump winning the Iowa caucuses last week by a nearly 30-point margin and expected to defeat Haley in next month’s South Carolina primary, if he stays in the race. long.
Donald Trump danced on stage at a rally Saturday in Manchester ahead of the New Hampshire primary. REUTERS DeSantis suspended his campaign with a video announcement, saying: “It’s clear to me that the majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance.” via REUTERS
New Hampshire has an open primary system, meaning independent voters can cast ballots in either Democratic or Republican races — offering Haley, who has the support of Granite State GOP governor Chris Sununu, one of her best efforts to stop Trump. march to the nomination.
DeSantis, who finished a distant second in Iowa, announced Sunday afternoon he was quitting and endorsing Trump as polls showed him averaging single-digit support in New Hampshire.
The Florida governor, 45, has for much of the campaign been seen as Trump’s main rival with the twice-impeached former president facing a quartet of criminal cases – but DeSantis’ campaign has been marred by awkward moments, including a botched launch on Twitter Spaces and allegations by shoe experts that he wears lifts in his boots to make himself appear taller.
Nikki Haley and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu greeted voters at Beach Plum on Sunday afternoon. AFP via Getty Images
Trump said after receiving DeSantis’ endorsement that he would end his “DeSanctimonious” nickname for the Sunshine State governor, whom Trump viciously mocked throughout the contest after bestowing the memorable sobriquet on the 2016 GOP rival.
It’s unclear what effect the suddenly less competitive Republican race in New Hampshire will have on the state’s Democratic primary. President Biden, who is seeking re-election, was not on the ballot because of his agreement with the Democratic National Committee’s insistence that the state relinquish its first-in-the-nation status in favor of South Carolina.
Biden supporters are running a write-in campaign backed by state Democratic heavyweights to avoid embarrassing upsets by long-shot candidates like self-help author Marianne Williamson, Rep. Retiring Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and Vermin Supreme satirist.
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