Nikki Haley extends the (relatively) good moment her campaign is having. Although all of Donald Trump's rivals are very far removed from the former president in their voting intentions in the Republican primaries, the former UN ambassador maintains a steady upward trend and is on pace to overtake Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. After the support of Americans for Prosperity Action, the largest conservative network in the country, the support of the Governor of New Hampshire, Republican Chris Sununu, was added this Tuesday.
The primary election begins on January 15th with the Iowa caucuses. The following week it will be New Hampshire's turn. The first states are crucial for measuring competitive opportunities. Voters and donors follow them closely. A poor result in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina is tantamount to dropping out of the presidential race. A good result – relatively – keeps the flame of hope alive.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has offered her support to Ron DeSantis, but he is not as popular in her state as Sununu is in his. Last November, he received 57% of the vote in his re-election as governor of New Hampshire, a state with a traditional Democratic majority.
Their support may be crucial in the primaries to defeat DeSantis and eclipse Trump, but it is no guarantee of success. Last year, some of Sununu's backed candidates lost the Republican primary to Trump's favorites. The latter included Senate candidate Don Bolduc, who was so extreme that the Democrats themselves backed him to win the primary and then handily defeated him at the moment of truth when the entire census voted.
“Nikki Haley is the candidate with the will to win and put our party back on the path to conservative victories across the country. You answered our questions and built trust. “I am proud to support Nikki Haley for president and I hope you will join me in this movement,” Sununu said Tuesday, joining the candidate at a campaign event in Manchester, the state capital with a population of about 115,000 , participated. Population.
“This is an opportunity for New Hampshire to lead this country, for New Hampshire to say we are no longer looking in the rearview mirror,” Sununu said at the event, where he left a message for Donald Trump: “Thank you for. “Your service, Mr. President, we are making progress. “This is New Hampshire, and we're moving on.” “People are frustrated. In the last eight years, we've had a president more concerned about nap time, and we've had a president more concerned about his time in prison. We have to be able to move forward. This is drama. “This is chaos,” he said Tuesday, according to the AP. These messages echo those of Haley's campaign, which calls for leaving behind chaos, drama and revenge, as she said in the last debate between the Republican candidates.
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“We are very grateful that the governor of the [estado con el lema] “Live free or die” be part of our team, there is nothing more solid than that! Thank you for your support and friendship. “There are 42 days until the primaries, let's make history!” said Haley, who began a three-day campaign tour across the state that she has attended several times since she began her candidacy in February.
According to the weighted aggregation of FiveThirtyEight polls, Trump has a huge advantage nationally, with a vote intention rating of 61%. However, in New Hampshire it is 44.7%, compared to 18.9% for second-place Haley. Some critics of Donald Trump have called on Chris Christie, who is third in the state with 11.6%, to withdraw from a race that is impossible to win so that Haley can have the vote they do not have as the former president's candidate would like to, can consolidate.
Trump surprised New Hampshire in 2016 by winning with 35% of the vote, and from there his campaign gained strength until it took him to the White House. The former president lost the New Hampshire elections to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to Joe Biden in 2020. While DeSantis has the support of the governors of Iowa and Haley of New Hampshire, Trump has the support of Henry McMaster, the governor of South Carolina. Although it is the home state of Haley, who was governor, the former president is leading the polls there too, with 50.7% voting intent compared to Haley's 21.8%.
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