The former US president, in another gesture of arrogance, has taken his victory as Republican candidate for granted and focused his latest speech on November’s presidential election. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley hopes to surpass estimates that put her at 40% of the vote.
The former American president Donald Trump He is the leading favorite in the primaries of New Hampshire (northeastern United States), which are being held today and represent the first real primaries of the US election cycle. The event comes after the celebration of the conflict mediation of Iowa (organized by the state, with a congressional character), where Trump won, and which led to the resignation of the other candidate, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
The only remaining conservative candidate, the former US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haleyis betting on surprising and gathering enough support to confront Trump and ensure that he wins the Republican presidential nomination for a third time.
Polls show the former president would receive 60% of the vote, compared to the expected 40% for Haley. However, the northern state has a large number of voters registered as ‘independents’. This characteristic is fertile ground for the former UN ambassador who presents himself as an option for voters tired of Trump.
In each case, Donald Trump He has focused his latest speech on November’s presidential election, bypassing Haley. In a decidedly triumphalist tone, he has assured that “we are going to win New Hampshire and then beat corrupt Joe Biden and make America great again.”
The former president has also criticized Haley for being moved by the interests of the “political elite”, stating that an administration led by the former US ambassador to the UN puts the US “in last place” would post.
For his part, Nikki Haley has warned citizens that if they do not support her, the November elections will be between “two octogenarians”. “Don’t complain about what happens in the general election if you don’t vote today,” the 52-year-old Republican said in Salem, a southern suburb of the state.
New Hampshire will distribute only 11 delegates of the 2,429 that will be called to the Republican National Convention that will nominate the winning candidate in mid-July in Milwaukee.
No primaries on the Democratic side
US President and re-election candidate Joe Biden will not participate in the Democratic Party’s vote during next Tuesday’s primaries. And New Hampshire election law specifies that theirs must always be the nation’s first primary in each election cycle, but Democrats have wanted to change their election calendar to reflect the importance of the state, where Biden recently finished in fifth place. to downplay. year.
However, the state has also organized elections that are not recognized by the party and in which delegates are not distributed.
Source: EITB
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