Trump takes N.H. in blow to Haley’s candidacy
Former President Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday against his lone remaining rival for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, former South Carolina Gov.
Nikki Haley. His victory was called by the Associated Press just after 8 p.m., though Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst of the Cook Political Report, called the race for Trump in a post on X at 7:20 p.m., before all polling locations in the state had closed.
The contest presented the final opportunity for a challenger to Trump, who has long been the party’s frontrunner, to demonstrate his or her viability as a national candidate who could successfully challenge President Joe Biden for the White House.
Leading up to Tuesday, however, Haley’s prospects of overtaking him looked like a long shot, with voters favored to pick Trump over her by 60 to 38 percent in a Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll.
