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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:17:14 GMT -5
Current results.... -Donald Trump, 52.7% (12 delegates) -Nikki Haley, 46.2% (10 delegates) -All others, 1.1%
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:18:52 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Joe Biden has won New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary, the Associated Press reports, despite the president not campaigning in the state. New Hampshire had in years past held the first primary in the nation, and the second contest of the Democratic nomination calendar after Iowa’s caucuses. But under Biden, the Democratic National Committee has changed its schedule, and South Carolina will be the first state to vote for the Democratic nominee on 3 February. Biden’s name did not appear on the ballot in New Hampshire, but his supporters organized a write-in campaign to show support for his presidency, and also to remind him of their desire to remain the first state to hold a primary. That campaign appears to have paid off.
At Donald Trump’s election night watch party in Nashua, several cheers went up in the crowded ballroom, and some hats were thrown in the air, when two big screens announced: “Trump wins New Hampshire!” Kari Lake, a candidate for Senate in Arizona, gleefully told reporters: “Maga! Make America great again!” Meanwhile the Beatles song “Revolution” is playing outside the ballroom for no obvious reason.
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:26:51 GMT -5
(The Guardian) At Nikki Haley’s watch party, the playlist is upbeat and supporters are dancing and cheering. It’s not the scene you’d expect at the headquarters of a campaign that just lost in New Hampshire. But nevertheless, team Haley is jamming to “Proud Mary” and “Eye of the Tiger”.
Donald Trump’s win in New Hampshire has made one Republican senator who was holding out on endorsing him change his mind. Texas Republican John Cornyn had not weighed in on the presidential race, but made clear last year that he thought someone besides Trump should the party’s nominee. He has now endorsed the former president, after his win in New Hampshire this evening: The Dallas Morning News reported that on a call with reporters last May, Cornyn said, “I think President Trump’s time has passed him by and what’s the most important thing to me is we have a candidate who can actually win.”
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:29:46 GMT -5
Current results.... -Donald Trump, 52.5% (12 delegates) -Nikki Haley, 46.6% (10 delegates) -All others, 0.9%
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:34:04 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Speaking at her campaign headquarters in Concord, Nikki Haley congratulated Donald Trump on his victory. But she says she’s staying in the race. “New Hampshire is first in the nation. It is not the last,” she said.
AP VoteCast showed Trump won big in small towns and rural communities, where about two-thirds of primary participants said they live. Most GOP voters in the state lack a college degree and about two-thirds of them voted for Trump. The former president won about 7 in 10 Republican voters who identified as conservatives and those who were registered Republicans.
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:35:43 GMT -5
Current results... -Donald Trump, 53.0% (12 delegates) -Nikki Haley, 46.1% (10 delegates) -All others, 0.9%
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:36:40 GMT -5
(The Guardian) A groan just went up at Dean Phillips’ election night party, after TV networks announced Joe Biden had won the Democratic primary. Phillips wasn’t expecting to win tonight. At campaign events, he had suggested that garnering 20% of the vote in New Hampshire would be a success. His supporters will now be watching for more detailed results, after a write-in campaign for the president was clearly successful. Bill Barry, a retired law enforcement officer, said Phillips, who entered the Democratic race in October 2023, just hasn’t had time to reel in Biden. “Unfortunately, he got in late,” Barry, 64, said. “But, you know, you got to give the guy credit for three or four months. He’s been out there on the campaign. He’s been doing it the New Hampshire way: getting out there meeting the people, going into town halls, going to restaurants and shaking hands and meeting people.” Phillips is showing no signs of dropping out of the race. A member of his campaign told the Guardian that tomorrow about 12 campaign staff are flying to South Carolina, which has its primary on February 3.
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:52:45 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Biden campaign says New Hampshire results prove 'MAGA movement has completed its takeover' of GOPJoe Biden’s re-election campaign appears to be welcoming a rematch with Donald Trump. In a just-released statement, campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said: Tonight’s results confirm Donald Trump has all but locked up the GOP nomination, and the election denying, anti-freedom MAGA movement has completed its takeover of the Republican Party. Trump is offering Americans the same extreme agenda that has cost Republicans election after election: promising to undermine American democracy, reward the wealthy on the backs of the middle class, and ban abortion nationwide.
Joe Biden sees things differently. He’s fighting to grow our economy for the middle-class, strengthen our democracy, and protect the rights of every single American. While we work toward November 2024, one thing is increasingly clear today: Donald Trump is headed straight into a general election matchup where he’ll face the only person to have ever beaten him at the ballot box: Joe Biden.
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:55:54 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Beyond just vowing to stay in the race, Nikki Haley also made one more attempt to coax Donald Trump to the debate stage. The former president has refused to debate any of the other Republicans who challenged him for the party’s nomination, Haley included. That didn’t stop her from challenging him to a parley, saying it would prove that he is fit to serve:
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:57:32 GMT -5
Current results.... -Donald Trump, 53.8% (12 delegates) -Nikki Haley, 45.3% (10 delegates) -All others, 0.9%
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 20:59:34 GMT -5
(Associated Press) Haley pledges to take her ‘scrappy’ campaign onward to South Carolina-CONCORD, N.H.— Haley didn’t win New Hampshire, but she says her 2024 campaign is full steam ahead regardless. Appearing at her election night party Tuesday, Haley thanked New Hampshire “for the love, the kindness, the support and a great night.” Haley congratulated Trump on his victory, saying, “He earned that, and I want to acknowledge that.” But Haley said that the GOP race “is far from over.” She vowed to take her “scrappy” campaign onward to her home state of South Carolina, which holds its GOP primary next month. Haley also took a swipe at Trump for appearing to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying that his avowed confidence that he would score higher than her on a competency test should mean that he “should have no problem standing on a debate stage with me.”
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 21:10:29 GMT -5
Current results.... -Donald Trump, 53.6% (12 delegates) -Nikki Haley, 45.4% (10 delegates) -All others, 1.0%
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 21:12:12 GMT -5
(The Guardian) House speaker Mike Johnson calls on Republicans to get behind TrumpRepublican House speaker Mike Johnson has called on the GOP to support Donald Trump after his victory in the New Hampshire primary tonight. “Our House Republican leaders and a majority of Republican Senators support his reelection, and Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have strongly backed him at the polls. It’s now past time for the Republican Party to unite around President Trump so we can focus on ending the disastrous Biden presidency and growing our majority in Congress,” the speaker said in a statement. It’s not a hugely surprising statement from Johnson, who endorsed Trump in November, not long after Republicans elected him leader of the House of Representatives. After the 2020 election, he was an architect of a failed attempt by lawmakers to support Trump’s attempt to get the supreme court to disrupt Joe Biden’s election win.
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 21:13:44 GMT -5
(Associated Press) Also at Trump’s victory party? George Santos-NASHUA, N.H.— Among those attending Trump’s election night party at the Nashua Sheraton: former New York congressman George Santos. “I am a Trump supporter. There’s, like, a lot of surprise to see me here. You’re going to see me at a lot more of these,” Santos told The Associated Press. Asked if he was planning to have any formal role as a surrogate, he said he wasn’t. “I’m just having fun!” Earlier in the day, Santos appeared for a brief hearing in federal court on Long Island ahead of his criminal fraud trial, which is slated for later this year. He said he doesn’t plan to vote in next month’s special election to fill his now vacant seat in Congress.
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Post by Webster on Jan 23, 2024 21:20:44 GMT -5
Current results... -Donald Trump, 53.4% (12 delegates) -Nikki Haley, 45.4% (10 delegates) -All others, 1.1%
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